Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like The Eye of the World
The best books like The Eye of the World are The Silmarillion, A Game of Thrones, and Mistborn: The Final Empire. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan is about destiny and resistance, coming of age, good versus evil. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Silmarillion
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
The Silmarillion is Tolkien's attempt to do for English literature what the Norse Eddas and Finnish Kalevala did for their cultures: create a complete mythology from scratch.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
Mistborn: The Final Empire opens with a premise that inverts a thousand years of genre convention: the Dark Lord won.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Way of Kings
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Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
The Way of Kings is the first volume of The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson's most ambitious project: a ten-book epic set in Roshar, a world of continent-wide storms, symbiotic armor, and an ancient catastrophe that everyone has forgotten.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Uprooted
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Naomi Novik · Fantasy
Uprooted is a standalone fantasy novel inspired by Polish folklore.
Shares coming of age and community and sacrifice with The Eye of the World.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
Both dig into good versus evil.
Read the summary → - Good Omens
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Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Good Omens is a comic fantasy novel about the impending apocalypse and the attempts of an angel and a demon — Aziraphale and Crowley, who have been stationed on Earth since the Beginning — to prevent it.
Both dig into good versus evil.
Read the summary → - Stardust
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
Stardust begins with a simple bargain: young Tristran Thorn promises a girl he fancies that he will bring her a fallen star, and to find it he must cross the wall at the edge of his English village into Faerie.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Angela's Ashes
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Frank McCourt · Memoir
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of a catastrophically impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, first in Brooklyn and then in Limerick, during the 1930s and 1940s.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Barbarian Days
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William Finnegan · Memoir
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of a life spent surfing — from his childhood in Los Angeles and Hawaii through decades of obsessive searching for waves across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and eventually the cold waters of New York.
Both dig into coming of age.
Read the summary → - Boy Erased: A Memoir
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Garrard Conley · Memoir
Boy Erased is Garrard Conley's memoir of attending Love in Action, a conversion therapy program in Memphis, Tennessee, in the early 2000s.
Both dig into coming of age.
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Books like The Eye of the World: quick answers
What are the best books like The Eye of the World?
The best books like The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan are The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Eye of the World, such as destiny and resistance, coming of age, good versus evil.
What should I read after The Eye of the World?
A natural next read after The Eye of the World is The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.
What books are similar to The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan?
The Eye of the World centers on destiny and resistance, coming of age, good versus evil. Books with a similar feel include The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
