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My novel The Magicians was a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, The Magician King, will be out on August 9. You can read the first three chapters of The Magicians online at Viking's website.


…in paperback.


Yes: celebrating a paperback release is sort of like celebrating your half-birthday, but still. There are no bad excuses to drink in a bookstore. None.



Two good reasons to pick up a copy now, if you haven’t. One, it helps me if I sell copies early, because then bookstores re-order, and the publisher prints more, and the engines keep running … it shouldn’t work like that but seri...

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Average rating: 3.49 · 41,916 ratings · 7,774 reviews · 8 distinct works
The Magicians
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 31,446 ratings — published 2009 — 35 editions
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The Magician King
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 8,514 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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Codex
2.89 of 5 stars 2.89 avg rating — 1,773 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions
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"I think everybody feels a bit out of place in life—like they've been slightly miscast or incorrectly routed. We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world." ...More

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"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."Ursula K. Le Guin
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"A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry."Ed Park
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Lev Grossman voted for Delirium (Delirium, #1) in Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Final Round of the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
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“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. ”
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“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you. ”
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message 3: by Peter

Peter I just recommended The Magicians to another library patron. You're welcome!


message 2: by Peter

Peter We just received a copy of The Magician King here at my library and I'm the first on the list to read it on the release date! Can't wait!


Cynthia Hi! I'm looking forward to your book, The Magician King. :)


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