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Most fantasy books center around royalty and nobility, at least in part. These books focus on the point-of-view of middle-class characters: merchants, artisans, sailors, soldiers, shopkeepers and everyone else. Urban fantasy books don't really belong on this list, since most modern characters are middle-class.
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 483,647 ratings
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Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, #1)
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 123,173 ratings
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The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci, #2)
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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The Merchant and the Menace (The Seraphinium, #1)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Pool and the Pedestal (The Seraphinium Book 2)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Trees and the Night (The Seraphinium, #3)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Raising Sleeping Stones
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P.H.T. Bennet (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Mirror and the Maelstrom (The Seraphinium, #4)
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Daniel McHugh (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Witch Week (Chrestomanci, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 15,354 ratings
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 1,170,582 ratings
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Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 40,175 ratings
score: 277,
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 70,193 ratings
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Lud-in-the-Mist
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3.85 avg rating — 9,865 ratings
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 38,094 ratings
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Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 13,608 ratings
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On the Origin of PCs (The Order of the Stick, #0)
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Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci, #5)
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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 1,014,074 ratings
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The Quartered Sea (Quarters, #4)
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Voyage of the Fox Rider (Mithgar, #9)
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Dennis L. McKiernan (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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No Quarter (Quarters, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 2,394 ratings
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Melting Stones (The Circle Reforged, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 13,044 ratings
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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3.82 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
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Scott Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 161,675 ratings
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Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 36,026 ratings
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Fifth Quarter (Quarters, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,165 ratings
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Rose Daughter
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3.79 avg rating — 21,836 ratings
score: 186,
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Sing the Four Quarters (Quarters, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 5,660 ratings
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Mastiff (Beka Cooper, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 30,267 ratings
score: 181,
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 107,441 ratings
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The Automation (The Blacksmith's Circus, #1)
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3.52 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Albion Imperilled
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3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,955,837 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,093,600 ratings
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Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 136,756 ratings
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The Penitent: Part I
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A. Keith Carreiro (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Digger, Volume One (Digger, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Lifelode
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Book of Words (Book of Words, #1-3)
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4.16 avg rating — 313 ratings
score: 99,
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The Penitent: Part II (The Immortality Wars Book 1)
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A. Keith Carreiro (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Bird of the River (Lord Ermenwyr, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 602 ratings
score: 98,
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Zel
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Donna Jo Napoli (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 7,155 ratings
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The Spirit Thief (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #1)
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Rachel Aaron (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 10,130 ratings
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The Penitent: Part III (The Immortality Wars Book 3)
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A. Keith Carreiro (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Zahrah the Windseeker
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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The Legendary Siblings
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Pilgrim – Part I: A Christian Military Science Fiction Epic of Galactic War, Spiritual Power, and the Quest for Immortality (Book IV of the Immortality Wars Series)
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A. Keith Carreiro (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Anvil of the World (Lord Ermenwyr, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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Snow in Summer
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
score: 94,
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The Shamer's Daughter (The Shamer Chronicles, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 10,801 ratings
score: 93,
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Snow White and Rose Red
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 8,582 ratings
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The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga, #6)
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4.37 avg rating — 12,936 ratings
score: 92,
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Passage (The Sharing Knife, #3)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 8,174 ratings
score: 91,
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A Book Dragon
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4.06 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Tailor of Gloucester (World of Beatrix Potter, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 7,507 ratings
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Horizon (The Sharing Knife, #4)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 7,523 ratings
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The Magician's Elephant
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 27,544 ratings
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Cold Fire (The Circle Opens, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 22,799 ratings
score: 89,
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Legacy (The Sharing Knife, #2)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 9,276 ratings
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Land of Mist and Snow
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Shatterglass (The Circle Opens, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 23,829 ratings
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Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 11,968 ratings
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The Bell at Sealey Head
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Castle Hangnail
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NPCs
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Drew Hayes (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 14,756 ratings
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Split the Party (Spells, Swords, & Stealth, #2)
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Drew Hayes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 7,662 ratings
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A Witch's Printing Office, Vol. 1 (A Witch's Printing Office, #1)
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A Witch's Printing Office, Vol. 2
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list created April 5th, 2010
by Hazel Gold (votes) .
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Jan 26, 2014 01:32AM
The Hobbit should definitely not be listed here. "The king under the mountain" is not particularly middle class. Dragonlance also, for one thing Laurana is a princess. I'd say the same for Stardust, although I'm not that familiar with it.
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The Hobbit is told from the point of view of the definitely middle class hobbit. Laurana is only one character in Dragonlance, and not even point of view much. Stardust, the main character was raised middle class -- or working class -- and his status does not change until near the very end.
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