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Must read books where music is the main focus.
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items Dome of my favorite hobbies are music and stayingf at home. What better way is there than to combine the 2 and read books about magic and adventures.
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Traveling Troubadours
Magical Melodies & Quests
The New Beat
Traveling Troubadours
In these adventures, the journey itself is the rhythm. These protagonists are wandering musicians who use their instruments to navigate dangerous lands and outsmart foes.
Rune is a young girl from a poor village who dreams of becoming a "Free Bard." Her adventure begins when she makes a bargain with a Ghost King to win her fiddle and her freedom. She must travel across the kingdom, proving her worth in a guild dominat...
The Lark and the Wren
This epic adventure follows Kvothe, a world-famous musician and magician. After his family—a troupe of traveling performers—is killed, Kvothe must live by his wits as a street musician before journeying to a legendary university. His lute is his most...
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1)
Moril and his siblings travel in their father’s cart, performing music across the fractured land of Dalemark. When their father is arrested for smuggling, Moril must use an ancient, enchanted "cwidder" (a lute-like instrument) to lead his family on a...
Cart and Cwidder (Dalemark Quartet #1)|eBook
Alaric is a minstrel who wanders from castle to castle with his lute. However, he has a secret: he can "vanish" from one place and appear in another. His adventure follows his search for a place to belong as he is hunted for his powers, using his mus...
Born to Exile
Cerin is a young harper whose life is upended when he meets a mysterious woman from another world. His adventure takes him into the heart of an ancient forest filled with dark spirits, where he must learn to "weave" songs into magic to save a soul an...
The Harp of the Grey Rose
Magical Melodies & Quests
These adventures center on "The Call"—a musical or magical signal that pulls our heroes away from safety and into the unknown to save their worlds.
Maerad is a slave who discovers she is a Bard—a member of a group that practices the "Speech," a magic based on sound and song. She is whisked away on a cross-continental quest to find the "One Tree" and stop a rising darkness, all while learning the...
The Naming (Pellinor Series #1)
On the planet Pern, Menolly is a gifted singer whose village forbids her from her art. She runs away into the wild sea caves, where she befriends a clutch of fire-lizards. Her adventure leads her to the prestigious Harper Hall, where her music become...
Dragonsong (Harper Hall Trilogy Series #1)
Rhapsody is a "Namer" who can change reality through song. While fleeing a dangerous past, she and two warriors venture through the center of the earth. They emerge in a new world thousands of years in the future, where Rhapsody’s music is the only t...
Rhapsody: Child of Blood |eBook
Princess Annice is a bard who can summon the spirits of the elements (earth, air, fire, and water) through her kantele. Her adventure begins when she is accused of a crime she didn't commit and must go on the run, using her elemental songs to survive...
Sing the Four Quarters (Quarters Series #1)
Morgon is a simple farmer and harper who finds himself caught in a web of ancient riddles. His adventure is a journey across lands filled with shapeshifters and sorcerers. Music is his constant companion and eventually the tool he uses to unlock the ...
The Riddlemaster of Hed
The New Beat
These books offer a modern or unique twist on the adventure genre, where musicians are rebels, outcasts, or students in worlds where the rhythm is the law.
Amelia Jones dreams of attending a school where music is used to cast spells. After a botched audition, she is given a trial period. Her adventure involves a high-stakes competition and a journey to stop a "silent" darkness from erasing the music of ...
The Mystwick School of Musicraft
onathan, a law student and amateur rock musician, is summoned to a world of talking animals by a turtle wizard. His adventure is a hilarious and dangerous trek across a fantastical continent where his only defense is a magical guitar that turns rock ...
Spellsinger|eBook
In a city where violence creates monsters, August is a creature who can steal souls by playing his violin. His adventure begins when he must team up with the daughter of a human warlord to survive a city-wide hunt, using his music as a weapon for bot...
This Savage Song
n a world where legends are literally "sung" into being, a young woman discovers she has the rare ability to invoke the power of ancient heroes. Her adventure takes her from the slums to the front lines of a revolution, where her voice is the only th...
A Song of Legends Lost
Csorwe was meant to be sacrificed to a dark god, but she is rescued by a wizard to become his mercenary. Her adventure involves traveling through portals to lost worlds, and one of her key companions is a witty, magic-wielding bard who uses music to ...
The Unspoken Name