# Fantasy Book Suggestions featuring Older Protagonists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [January 4, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-book-suggestions-featuring-older-protagonists/977663 "2023-01-04T16:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-book-suggestions-featuring-older-protagonists/977663/46 "2023-01-05T04:26:27Z")
I’ll add a much deserved 4th/5th/6th to Bujold, especially the Chalion novels. As for Lies of Locke Lamora, yeah, the first is excellent, the second okay, the third . . . meh. But the first and best is much closer to what the OP specifically didn’t want - a young generation that’s just so good at what they do! But mostly wanted to bring up that we have some of these same-ish suggestions in a related thread: > [@The age 40+ Chosen One?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-age-40-chosen-one/957622): > > I’m looking for fantasy or scifi or horror stories where someone is at least 40 years old when it is revealed that he or she is the chosen one who is destined to save their people or the kingdom or the whole freakin’ world (you know the trope). Note I don’t mean stories where the chosen one is currently middle-aged or elderly now but they’d been the chosen one for ages already in the prequels and/or their backstories, but only tales where the news is sprung on them when they’re already over 40.… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-book-suggestions-featuring-older-protagonists/977663)._