So You Want to Be a Wizard
- 385
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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About the book
So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane is the first book in her long-running Young Wizards series of novels which currently consists of eleven books by Duane. It was written in 1982 and published the next year. In 2012 a revised "New Millennium Edition" was released as an eBook.
Reading order · Young Wizards
Full order & progress →- So You Want to Be a WizardThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Deep Wizardry
–Not ranked yet - High Wizardry
–Not ranked yet - A Wizard Abroad
–Not ranked yet - The Book of Night with Moon
–Not ranked yet - To Visit the Queen
–Not ranked yet - The Wizard's Dilemma
–Not ranked yet - A Wizard Alone
–Not ranked yet - Wizard's Holiday
–Not ranked yet - Wizards at War
–Not ranked yet - A Wizard of Mars
–Not ranked yet - Games Wizards Play
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 144 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 49% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 15 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 129 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is So You Want to Be a Wizard?
It has 385 pages — shorter than 80% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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