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Lev Grossman

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Children's

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Hi! I'm the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy鈥擳he Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician鈥檚 Land鈥攚hich was adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons on Syfy.

I've also written two novels for children: The Silver Arrow, which the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People magazine, Apple and Amazon all put on their best-of-the-year lists, and its sequel The Golden Swift. I do some journalist and screenwriting too.

I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the son of two English professors. My twin brother Austin is a writer and game designer, and my older sister Sheba is an artist. Sometimes I live in Brooklyn, New York, other times in Sydney, Australia, where my wife is from. I have three kids and a someh

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	The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 271,774 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magician King (The Magicians, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 103,029 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 80,171 ratings — published 2014 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bright Sword 3.99 avg rating — 15,527 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Codex 3.04 avg rating — 8,627 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persephone (Into Shadow, #2) 2.99 avg rating — 6,153 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Arrow (The Silver Arrow, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,859 ratings — published 2020 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magician's Land 4.32 avg rating — 3,129 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magicians: Alice's Story by Lev Grossman (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Creator), Pius Bak (Illustrator), Lilah Sturges 3.77 avg rating — 1,634 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Map of Tiny Perfect Things 3.92 avg rating — 1,520 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Magicians (9 books)
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Ashkan Karimiyan (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Translator)

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The Silver Arrow (2 books)
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“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-lessons, life-truths, reality-check, wishes

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“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: desire, love, relationships, trouble

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“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: contentment, destiny, happiness, life, misery, perfection, satisfaction, unhappiness

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Best Fantasy

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991 votes 24.8%

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949 votes 23.7%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

363 votes 9.1%

Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)

324 votes 8.1%

The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12)

279 votes 7.0%

The City & the City

250 votes 6.2%

White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, #7)

225 votes 5.6%

The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)

220 votes 5.5%

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209 votes 5.2%

Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)

193 votes 4.8%

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Lev鈥檚 Quotes

“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”
― Ed Park, Personal Days

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
― Chris Rock

tags: humor

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