Best Magical School Book Recommendations

Magical and Supernatural Schools and Academies


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Magic, superpowers, alchemy, and other supernatural powers do not always come naturally to the people and creatures that have them. Sometimes they have to go to schools to learn it. And the stories we are told from how they learn their powers are often interesting and funny.

This article is for those of you that love Magical School and Academy stories and want more of them. We have created a large list of excellent suggestions for more magical school books to try out.

Most of our suggestions are books with stories about typical magical schools where the students learn classical magic. They have classes about transmutations, conjurations, divination, enchantment, illusion, and even some necromancy. Other classes might be about potions, alchemy, and so on.

But some of the magical school books we suggest are also from slightly different areas, but they are all in the fantasy genre with supernatural elements.

Some might be schools for magical beasts, like vampires. A school where they can go to learn about their powers and how to fit into their society. And other recommendations might be books about schools for people with superpowers.

Most of our magical school book recommendations are series where most of the books in the series centers around school life, but a few might only have a book or two in the series with this theme.

A Thousand Li

A Thousand Li: the First Step: Book 1 Cover
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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.

Is A Thousand Li good?

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.

Why is A Thousand Li included?

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.

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Codex Alera

Book cover: Furies of Calderon
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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.

Is Codex Alera good?

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.

Why is Codex Alera included?

Some of the books in the Codex Alera series are set in a magical school. But that is far from the main theme or setting of the series.

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The Black Magician

Book cover: The Magicians' Guild
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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.

Is The Black Magician good?

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.

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Super Powereds

Book cover: Super Powereds: Year 1
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To become a super hero you have to take the Hero Certification Program in college, and only a handful of those starting it will be able to get to the final year. Among this years freshmen at Lander University, one of the top universities with a Hero Certification Program, there are five fresh students that are not as the rest of the aspiring heroes. They are former powereds, people with abilities like the supers but without the ability to control them. Powereds have always been treated like second class citizens and a burden. However these five are the first prototypes for a new highly classified experiment that have managed to turn powereds to a super. They have been those into the Hero Certification Program at Lander University as a trail by fire to see if they can compete against supers.

Is Super Powereds good?

Super Powereds is one of the better series I have read in a while. Great long books. They are akin to the magical school type of books, but with college age students instead of the commonly younger age group. There are five main characters, and the author has actually managed to distribute the focus fairly among them.

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Kingkiller Chronicle

Book cover: Name of the Wind
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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.

Is Kingkiller Chronicle good?

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.

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The Wizard of Earthsea

Book cover: A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. -Amazon

Is The Wizard of Earthsea good?

A Wizard of Earthsea is the first book in the The Earthsea Cycle. This series can probably be titled as a classic fantasy series. I remember that I really liked it back when I read it, but that is starting to be some years ago. I don't think it can compete with some of the newer epic fantasy series.

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Harry Potter

Book cover: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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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.

Is Harry Potter good?

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.

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Schooled in Magic

Book cover: Schooled in Magic
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Emily is a teenage girl with an alcoholic mother (named Destiny) and an abusive stepfather that is suddenly summoned from earth to another world by an evil necromancer that plans to sacrifice for his own gain because she is supposed to be a "Child of Destiny". She is saved by a lone power mage called Void. Emily her self has magic power in this world, so Void swiftly sends her of to the famed magic school White Hall.

Is Schooled in Magic good?

I like these books, but i kind of like magic school books for some reason. It`s interesting to see "modern" technology being introduced to a medieval like magic world, and the magic system is interesting and detailed. The main character is also enjoyable.

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Abhorsen

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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.

Is Abhorsen good?

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.

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House of Night

Book cover: Marked
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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.

Is House of Night good?

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

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Vampire Academy

Book cover: Vampire Academy
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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.

Is Vampire Academy good?

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

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Mage Errant

Into the Labyrinth: Mage Errant Book 1
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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.

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The Black Witch

The Black Witch: An Epic Fantasy Novel (The Black Witch Chronicles, 1)
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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.

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Have we missed any magical school books that you like?

If so, please tell us in the comments.

Also, feel free to tell us if you disagree with any of our recommendations.


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