Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mágové | 2009 | Lev Grossman | N/A |
| 2 | The Magicians | 2009 | Lev Grossman | Buy |
| 3 | Il Re Mago | 2011 | Lev Grossman | N/A |
| 4 | The Magician King | 2011 | Lev Grossman | Buy |
| 5 | The Magician’s Land | 2014 | Lev Grossman | Buy |
| 6 | Земля волшебника | 2014 | Lev Grossman | N/A |
The Magicians series starts with Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant but unhappy college student who discovers that magic is real and gets admitted to Brakebills, a graduate school for magicians in upstate New York. The books draw heavily from the Narnia novels that Quentin loved as a child, but the tone is darker and more self-aware. Grossman treats magic as something that can be learned and practiced but that does not automatically fix the problems of being human.
As the trilogy continues, Quentin and his friends travel to Fillory, the Narnia-like world from their favorite childhood books, and discover that it is far more dangerous than they imagined. The series earned praise for mixing familiar fantasy tropes with real emotional weight, and it became a bestseller that helped push adult literary fantasy into the mainstream.