Fantasy stories where the main character working through trauma is a focus of the story, sometimes in healthy ways and sometimes not so much.
created by GenevaKelly
last updated January, 2026
The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
Katherine Addison
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
Stephen Graham Jones
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
S.A. Chakraborty
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
A Sleight of Shadows (The Unseen World, #2)
Kat Howard
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
An Unkindness of Magicians (The Unseen World, #1)
The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
Evan Winter
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
Rebecca Roanhorse
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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