Best Magical School Book Recommendations

Long Wu Ying lives on his family farm. He spends his days planting rice, studying, and being with friends.

Wu Ying has never even dreamt of becoming a cultivator. Cultivation is only for the rich or geniuses.

But fate has different plans for Wu Ying.

When the army arrives at his village, he and many other members of the village are forcefully conscripted. Wu Ying ends up doing a dead that catches the eye of a cultivation master of the Verdant Green Waters Sect.

Wu Ying is given the opportunity to join the Verdant Green Waters Sect. Joining means that he will give up his common life and start the bloody path of becoming an immortal cultivator.

A Thousand Li is an excellent cultivation book, or wuxia/xianxia if you like.

Wu Ying is a likable character, and his cultivation journey is interesting.

A Thousand Li is not your typical Magical School book. It is a wuxia/xianxia cultivation book. But the main character is in a kind of school setting.

It is not the best recommendation if you want a traditional magical school story. This is added as a suggestion that might take you in a new direction.

The people of Alera are bound with furies, elementals of earth, water, air, fire, and metal.

The teenager Tavi stands out from all other people in Alere, he has no furycrafting.

However, Tavi manages to get by with brains and courage, even when everyone else has the power of furies backing them.

When his homeland erupts in chaos, when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies, Tavi's simple furyles courage will turn the tides of war.

Furies of Calderon is the first book of Codex Alera, a finished six-book series.

This is an excellent series, and I absolutely recommend people loving fantasy books to read it.

Sonea is a young slum rat that suddenly discovers that she has magical potential. She discovered it when she throws a stone through a magical barrier and accidentally hits a magician shielded behind it. Only magic could get through that shield.

The magicians want her to join their guild, but Sonea has an understandable but unnecessary distrust of the magicians. Soo she ends up running away from them.

The magicians must find her before her uncontrolled and untrained powers kill her and possibly destroys the city.

This is not an easy task. Sonea knows the slums and its hidden sewers like only a slum child can.

The guild desperately tries to hunt her down to attempt to convince her to join them and start in their school.

I liked this book quite well, but I read it back in my earlier days when I was new to fantasy books.

The story in The Magicians' Guild is kind of unoriginal and follows standard fantasy structure. But if you are kind of new to fantasy books or like me, liking these kinds of stories, then it should be a good read.

Kingkiller Chronicle is a first-person story of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen.

From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, and to his years spent as an orphan suer rat in a crime-ridden city. Then to his daring yet successful gamble to enter a legendary school of magic. And then how he learns magic and grows to become the notorious magician he once will become.

This book starts out a little slow, but it becomes one of the better fantasy books there is.

Kingkiller Chronicle is a must-read for any fantasy book lover.

Sadly it looks like Rothfuss is starting to compete with George RR Martin on who is the slowest.

Harry lives a miserable life with the Dursleys. His horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley.

Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in ten years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by an owl, a letter with an invitation to Hogwart, an infamous school for witches and wizards.

So begins Harry's new life in a boarding school for wizards and witches.

This is the first book of a finished seven-book series about Harry Potter, the boy who lived.

To be honest, I am not a fan of the two first books in this series, but the rest of them are absolutely fantastic.

Highly recommended.

Two neighboring countries are divided by a wall, Ancelstierre to the south, and The Old Kingdom to the north.

Ancelstierre has a technology level and society similar to that of early-20th century England. The Old Kingdom has a more medieval technological level, but they do have both Free Magic and Charter Magic. This last tidbit is officially denied by the government of Ancelstierre and disbelieved by most of its inhabitants.

Sabriel is in her last year at Wyverley College, a private school in Ancelstierre that lies close to the wall to The Old Kingdom.

When an undead creature enters their dormitory Sabriel notices it is attempting to communicate. It is a messenger from her father, the Abhorsen, who is now past the Seventh Gate of Death.

The message tells Sabriel that she is to take on the role of Abhorsen and defeat Kerrigor, a powerful necromancer who is attempting to make his way back into Life.

The undead messenger gives Sabriel the Abhorsen's bandolier of bells, the Abhorsen's sword, and a map of The Old Kingdom.

Sabriel leaves Wyverley College and travels into the mystical land of the Old Kingdom.

Sabriel is a really great book and the rest of the Abhorsen books are just as good. They are YA books, but they are still worth reading for adults.

Zoey is a 16-year-old girl who is marked.

Those who are marked are sent to the House of Night.

House of Night is a school where marked teenagers are sent to undergo the change to become a vampire.

House of Night is an ok paranormal teen series. Nothing special, but worth a read if you are into books like this.

There are two races of vampires. One is the Moroi, they are alive and wield elemental magical. The other is the Strigoi, they are undead and evil.

Rose Hathaway is a half-vampire. She is a bodyguard in training for her friend Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi princess.

They go to St. Vladimir’s Academy. Its a hidden boarding school for vampires. Full blood vampires learn magic and half-bloods train to be their protectors.

Vampire Academy is a good teen paranormal romance book. They are worth checking out.

Hugh of Emblin is from a magical dessert. Not a real dessert, it is in fact place with huge forests and green fields, but it is a place with little to no magic. To his family's big shame he is born a mage, even if there are almost no mages that come from Emblin.

To get rid of him they ship him off to the magical Academy at Skyhold.

Hugh is a big failure. So far as he's concerned he is the biggest failure at the Academy. He can barely cast any spells, and those he manages to cast tend to fail explosively.

If that is not enough Hugh has also managed to catch the eye of the Academy's biggest bully and most promising student. He spends most of his time trying to hide from everyone.

Talentless and friendless, Hugh does not expect to be chosen as an apprentice at the upcoming Choosing ceremony. But a strange mage does choose him and a few other students. Suddenly Huge's life takes a drastic turn for the better, but it is also a much more dangerous road.

Carnissa Gardner was the last prophesied Black Witch, she drove back the enemy forces and saved her people during the Realm War.

Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of Carnissa Gardner, and she looks exactly like her. But there is one huge difference, Elloren is as unusually week as Carnissa was unusually powerful.

Her father and siblings want Elloren to live the life she wants, but some other more powerful family members are scheming to use her legacy to put her in a position of power. This is not the easiest task when Elloren is devoid of magical power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else.

When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at Verpax University. But she soon realizes that the university may be the most dangerous place of all for the granddaughter of the Black Witch.