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Two recommendations here:
The Tales of Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card. It takes place during an alternate history frontier America with a very interesting magic/knack system, and it follows a boy who has a powerful knack for making things. It follows the character from his birth to as a young man. I think it is classified as a Young Adult series, but I can see adults enjoying this series too. It's one of my favourite series to this day.
I would also recommend Sabriel by Garth Nix. It's a dark fantasy book with an old magical kingdom that exists side by side with a relatively more normal early 20th C Australia/Britain type nation. The young female protagonist is from a long line of neuromancers and has to rescue her father from the depths of death, and of course, save the world from an undead army takeover. That sort of thing. It's a page turner with one of the most fascinating fantasy worlds I've ever read.
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