21 must-read fantasy books like He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

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He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after …

"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

If you liked the fantasy plot in He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) by Hannah Kaner

1. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

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2. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

3. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Cover of A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) by Freya Marske

4. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

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  • historical fantasy
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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5. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

7. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

9. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

Cover of A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0) by Samantha    Shannon

10. A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

By: Samantha Shannon

4.36

Format: 868 pages, Hardcover

In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Or… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them." Thrit"

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Tunuva returned to her watching, knowing that this was the last night she would have everything she wanted in the world, all in one place."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

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11. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) by Tasha Suri

12. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

13. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) by Hannah Kaner

14. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

Cover of The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2) by Saara El-Arifi

15. The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire Trilogy #2)

By: Saara El-Arifi

4.36

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they fin… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

16. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) book and Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

  • lesbian
  • historical fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

17. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

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  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Faebound (Faebound, #1) by Saara El-Arifi

18. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2) by C.L. Clark

19. The Faithless (Magic of the Lost, #2)

By: C.L. Clark

4.30

Format: 512 pages, None

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess … read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2) by Hadeer Elsbai

20. The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Following up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai co… read more

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  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Art of Destiny (War Arts, #2) by Wesley Chu

21. The Art of Destiny (War Arts, #2)

By: Wesley Chu

4.16

Format: 651 pages, Hardcover

Once there was a prophecy that a chosen one would rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, an immortal god-… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"May you still experience more dreams than memories."

-Wesley Chu, The Art of Destiny (War Arts, #2)

21 must-read fiction books like He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Freya Marske

4.29

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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