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Lev Grossman

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Hi! I'm the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land—which 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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Average rating: 3.71 · 505,802 ratings · 47,796 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 265,376 ratings — published 2009 — 115 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) 3.92 avg rating — 100,293 ratings — published 2011 — 10 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 — 77,779 ratings — published 2014 — 15 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 3.03 avg rating — 8,364 ratings — published 2004 — 60 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) 3.03 avg rating — 4,882 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) 3.99 avg rating — 3,567 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 — 2,916 ratings — published 2014 — 11 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: Alice's Story by Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author) (Creator), Pius Bak (Illustrator), Lilah Sturges 3.77 avg rating — 1,555 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 — 1,324 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
	The Magicians and the Magician King 4.22 avg rating — 868 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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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“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
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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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General Fantasy Poll for July/August 2010. We will read the winner in July and discuss it in August.

Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay

19 votes, 17.4%

Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman

16 votes, 14.7%

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

13 votes, 11.9%

The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip

11 votes, 10.1%

The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

10 votes, 9.2%

Jhereg by Steven Brust

10 votes, 9.2%

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

8 votes, 7.3%

The Dwarves: Book 1 by Markus Heitz

7 votes, 6.4%

Spellwright by Blake Charlton

4 votes, 3.7%

The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells

4 votes, 3.7%

The Wheel of Nuldoid by Russ Woody

3 votes, 2.8%

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

3 votes, 2.8%

Probability Angels by Joseph Devon

1 vote, 0.9%

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“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

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