5 Best historical fiction books like All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

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All the Seas of the World

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago an…

"Maybe home for some is always the one they lost."

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

"The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away ."

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

If you liked the historical fiction plot in All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.67

Format: None pages,

New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an e… read more

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2. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey

3. Cassiel's Servant

By: Jacqueline Carey

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The lush epic fantasy that inspired a generation with a single “Love As Thou Wilt." Returning t… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Carey's Cassiel's Servant book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grief of Stones  (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) by Katherine Addison

4. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard  Swan

5. The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)

By: Richard Swan

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's… read more

Similar categories in Richard Swan's The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) by K.J. Parker

6. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • historical fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infin…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

"Where you always go wrong is trying to persuade people with facts and arguments. It's why you can only write comedy. What gets people going is stuff that doesn't mean shit but sounds great. Blood, to…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

Cover of Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1) by Daniel Abraham

7. Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1)

By: Daniel Abraham

3.68

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countle… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Abraham's Age of Ash (Kithamar, #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.40

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Deadly feuds and ancient secrets spell war in the second novel of The Covenant of Steel, a new epic… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Ryan's The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Old buildings are like aged carcasses . . . The flesh slips from the bones leaving gaps."

-Anthony Ryan, The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

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10. Wicked Problems (The Craft Wars, #2)

By: Max Gladstone

4.35

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Gods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladsto… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Wicked Problems (The Craft Wars, #2) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2) by Daniel Abraham

11. Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2)

By: Daniel Abraham

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countle… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Abraham's Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3) by K.J. Parker

12. A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

By: K.J. Parker

4.15

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Practical Guide to Conquering the World can be read by itself, but for those who like endings it … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • historical fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I really don’t understand why people go on about how wonderful the truth is. In my experience, all it does is make trouble."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"My life has been so universally shitty that either I lose it or improve it, I'm not really bothered which, just so long as it doesn't carry on the way it's been so far."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"Comedy to observers, tragedy to participants; I consider myself an observer. I fly over my life like a migrating bird, and I only ever play for beans or counters, never for real money."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"The truth, I’ve found, is like an annoying little dog that takes a fancy to you in the street and follows you home, barking. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve been glad …"

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

Cover of All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay

13. All the Seas of the World

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago an… read more

Similar categories in Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • historical fantasy
  • canada
  • adventure
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe home for some is always the one they lost."

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

"The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up…"

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

14. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Storming Heaven (The Age of Bronze #2) by Miles  Cameron

15. Storming Heaven (The Age of Bronze #2)

By: Miles Cameron

4.44

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

Before iron helmets and steel swords, when dragons roamed the world, was an age of bronze and stone… read more

Similar categories in Miles Cameron's Storming Heaven (The Age of Bronze #2) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark  Lawrence

16. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn’t Burn book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

17. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

Cover of Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1) by Max Gladstone

18. Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1)

By: Max Gladstone

4.17

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down … read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Dead Country (The Craft Wars, #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of In the Shadow of Lightning (Glass Immortals, #1) by Brian  McClellan

19. In the Shadow of Lightning (Glass Immortals, #1)

By: Brian McClellan

4.40

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy, comes the first novel in the Glass Immorta… read more

Similar categories in Brian McClellan's In the Shadow of Lightning (Glass Immortals, #1) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Origin of Storms (Lotus Kingdoms, #3) by Elizabeth Bear

20. The Origin of Storms (Lotus Kingdoms, #3)

By: Elizabeth Bear

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns with the stunning conclusion to her acclaimed epic… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's The Origin of Storms (Lotus Kingdoms, #3) book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler

21. Revery: A Year of Bees

By: Jenna Butler

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

I hope you're okay in there, lovelies. I hope you're warm. After five years of working with bees on… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Butler's Revery: A Year of Bees book and Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World

  • canada

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Cassiel's Servant

Jacqueline Carey

4.33

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Katherine Addison

4.32

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Richard Swan

4.01

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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Travis Baldree

4.20

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James Islington

4.63

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Brandon Sanderson

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