Trope: an academy setting
Magic school series
- Series
- 2
- Complete
- 2
- Audio
- 304 h 25 m
Magic school stories put the hero in an academy: classes, exams, rivals and teachers, with the magic system learned on the page alongside the hero. In progression fantasy the school is also the measuring stick, because every term and test shows how far he has come.
Our books like Cradle list sends readers who enjoyed Cradle's training arcs to exactly this setting: "You want the school setting: Mage Errant, Mother of Learning, Mark of the Fool or The Immortal Great Souls." The Audible blurbs set the tone. Mage Errant opens with "Hugh of Emblin is, so far as he's concerned, the worst student that the Academy at Skyhold has ever seen." Mother of Learning's begins "Zorian Kazinski has all the time in the world to get stronger". Mark of the Fool, a wizard-academy series, opens "The gods chose him. He said no." Arcane Ascension is, in our Mage Errant guide's words, another academy-and-dungeon progression series.
Each series below is tagged from one of our guides, with its status, book count and audiobook hours.
Finished
Complete series (2)
Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke
Complete10 books, 206 h 55 m of audio. Start with Mark of the Fool.
A school setting: Mark of the Fool or Mother of Learning.
(Books Like He Who Fights with Monsters: 12 Reader Picks)You want the school setting: Mage Errant, Mother of Learning, Mark of the Fool or The Immortal Great Souls.
(Books Like Cradle: 10 Series Cradle Fans Recommend Most)
Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaić (nobody103)
Complete4 books, 97 h 30 m of audio. Start with Mother of Learning: Arc 1.
A school setting: Mark of the Fool or Mother of Learning.
(Books Like He Who Fights with Monsters: 12 Reader Picks)
In progress
Still coming out (0)
Every Magic school series here is complete.
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How we checked this
Source: our own guides, quoted under each series; a series is listed only when a published guide says it in words, never from memory. Status, book count and audiobook hours come from each series' source table (publisher, Amazon and Audible pages), latest check . The introduction draws on Books Like Cradle: 10 Series Cradle Fans Recommend Most.
This page joins search results once 6 series with a guide carry the tag and its introduction has at least 150 words.
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