Xanth · Book 36

Luck of the Draw

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
350
ISBN-13
9780765331359
Type
novel
Cover of Luck of the Draw

About this book

The 36th Xanth novel, Luck of the Draw appeared in 2012, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 350 pages.

Key facts about Luck of the Draw

Piers Anthony wrote Luck of the Draw, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2012. The book has 350 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765331359 to find the main one.

Luck of the Draw is book 36 of 49 in the Xanth series. The series has 48 published books. However, the series starts with A Spell for Chameleon (1977).

Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.

About Piers Anthony

Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.

Its place in Xanth

Luck of the Draw is book 36 in the Xanth series. It follows Well-Tempered Clavicle. It is followed by Esrever Doom. See the full Xanth reading order.

Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…

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