im thinking magical schools, magical academia and power disputes, but the queen's gambit book (and books about athletes) also count ----- Blood Over Bright Haven, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Hierarchy series, The Atlas trilogy, Scholomance trilogy, Magicians trilogy, The Black Witch series, The Poppy War trilogy, Babel, Vita Nostra, Book of the Ancestor trilogy, Lord of the White Hell, Mother of Learning, The Ivies, All of Us Villains duology, The Gameshouse trilogy, The Queens of Renthia trilogy, The Talents trilogy, Killing November duology, All's Well, Summer Sons, The Society For Soulless Girls, The Cloisters, The Betrayals, The Binding, Nampeshiweisit series, His Dark Materials trilogy, Middlegame, Tennebrose series, The Blood Trials duology, A Study in Drowning, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Anatomy duology, The Once and Future Witches, Over My Dead Body, The Cartographers, The Just City, Their Vicious Games, Nocticadia, Emily Wilde trilogy, The Powerless trilogy, Drowned Gods duology, Dune saga, Argyrosi duology/series (I'm not sure), The Kingkiller Chronicle series, The Devil Makes Tree, In These Hallowed Halls anthology, Raybearer duology, Stephen Oakwood series, The Library Trilogy, The Library at Mount Char, Don't Let the Forest In, Curious Tides, Coven of Bones series, Lexicon, Native Tongue trilogy, The Fifth Season, Divine Traitors duology, The Lie Tree, A Skinful of Shadows, The Testing Trilogy, The Memoirs of Lady Trent, No Good Deed, The Wishing Game, Immortal Dark trilogy, Os Fantasmas Entre Nós, Empyreal series, Lightlark series, Phantasma, Esholian Institute, Magnus Academy series, All That Consumes Us, The Practice the Horizon and the Chain, Murder Your Employer.