Robin Hobb

The conclusion of the Tawny Man trilogy takes Fitz and the Fool to the Pale Woman's domain in the frozen north, where the fate of the world and the cost of prophecy are finally resolved. The most emotionally devastating volume in the Farseer cycle — and one of the great conclusions in all of fantasy.

FitzChivalry Farseer returns to Buckkeep Castle after his first quest, only to find the kingdom crumbling from within. King Shrewd is failing, Prince Regal schemes for the throne, and the Red-Ship Raiders continue to Forge the people of the coastlands into walking shells. Fitz is bound to his king, his Wit bond, and a love he cannot act on.

The Liveship Traders trilogy reaches its conclusion as the Vestrit family, the serpents migrating north, the sea-serpent wizards, and the full history of the Rain Wilds converge. Hobb resolves every storyline with characteristic emotional force, and the origins of the liveships are among the most devastating and most earned reveals in the entire Realm of the Elderlings.

The final volume of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy — and the conclusion of the entire Realm of the Elderlings sequence — takes Fitz on a journey to the city of Clerres to save the Fool and confront the Servants of the Pale Woman. A conclusion twenty years in the making, delivering one of fantasy's most emotionally complete endings.

Left for dead, Fitz is resurrected through his Wit bond with his wolf Nighteyes. Driven by a purpose he cannot resist, he crosses a kingdom in ruins to find Prince Verity — the king who went into the mountains to wake the Elderlings. The longest and most mythologically ambitious entry in the Farseer Trilogy.

Fifteen years after the events of the Farseer trilogy, Fitz lives in quiet isolation with Nighteyes. When the Fool arrives to draw him back into court politics — the young Prince Dutiful has gone missing — Fitz must choose between the solitude he has built and the duty he has never fully escaped. The first volume of the Tawny Man trilogy.

The Vestrit family's liveship — a wizardwood vessel that becomes sentient after absorbing three generations of deaths at the helm — is contested between family members as debt, grief, and ambition pull it in different directions. Hobb's second Realm of the Elderlings trilogy expands the world of the Farseer books outward into the sea-trading culture of Bingtown.

The Vivacia has been taken by the pirate Kennit, Althea and Brashen are fitting out the mad liveship Paragon to pursue her, and in Jamaillia the political situation threatens to destroy the Bingtown Traders' way of life entirely. The middle volume of the trilogy deepens every character and storyline, and Kennit's chapters represent some of Hobb's most complex and demanding writing.

Young Fitz, the royal bastard of the Six Duchies, is brought to the court of his grandfather King Shrewd and apprenticed to the royal assassin — learning to navigate palace politics, a forbidden magical bond with animals, and the profound isolation of being useful but never truly belonging.

Fitz is Tom Badgerlock, hidden servant to Lord Golden (the Fool in disguise), while navigating court intrigues involving Prince Dutiful, the Piebald conspiracy, and his own complicated feelings about everyone he has to pretend not to care about. The middle volume of the Tawny Man trilogy.

The first Rain Wild Chronicles novel follows the misfits assigned to tend a group of deformed dragons — creatures that hatched wrong and cannot fly — as they journey upriver to find the lost Elderling city of Kelsingra. A new entry point to the Realm of the Elderlings set after the events of the Liveship Traders.