6 must-read high fantasy books like Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) by Rachel Hartman

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Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.91

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Meet Tess, a brave new heroine from beloved epic fantasy author Rachel Hartman. In the medieval …

"I am the prayer ."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"I am the prayer ."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"You’re making assumptions."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"You’re making assumptions."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) by Rachel Hartman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2) by E.E. Knight

1. Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2)

By: E.E. Knight

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling, award-winning author of Dragon Champion-second in the fantastic new … read more

Similar categories in E.E. Knight's Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • dragons
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Does that have to go in?"

-E.E. Knight, Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2)

"Father, it’s Wistala. Wistala."

-E.E. Knight, Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2)

"Daughter, daughter, shining bright Precious jewel within mine sight Oh, if I could soar with thee As you seek your destiny. To see with you the caves and skies Vistas grand beneath your eyes Taking w…"

-E.E. Knight, Dragon Avenger (Age of Fire, #2)

Cover of Dragonfriend (Dragonfriend, #1) by Marc Secchia

2. Dragonfriend (Dragonfriend, #1)

By: Marc Secchia

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an ACE of ASIN:B00TS3J5GU  Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick… read more

Similar categories in Marc Secchia's Dragonfriend (Dragonfriend, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • dragons
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh

3. Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An addictive genre-blend of a thriller: the immersive sci-fi of Ernest Cline; the hard-boiled rhyth… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fiction

4. Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)

By: Kristin Cashore

4.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the v… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Cashore's Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

5. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

6. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • dragons
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

7. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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

8. 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

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."

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

Cover of Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) by T. Kingfisher

9. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

Cover of Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4) by Kristin Cashore

10. Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

By: Kristin Cashore

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Something is rotten in the heart of Winterkeep... Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new la… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Cashore's Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • teen
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...I am, without a doubt, not what my family hoped I would be."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"They’re stronger than me. But I’m stronger then the way they’re trying to make me feel."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"Oh, it was all such a mess, the things people did to each other, and the decisions that had to be made."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"It was a problem with no solution. Whichever path she chose would be harder than she felt she could stand."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

11. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of Seasparrow (Graceling Realm, #5) by Kristin Cashore

12. Seasparrow (Graceling Realm, #5)

By: Kristin Cashore

4.12

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The fifth novel in the bestselling and award winning Graceling Realm series focuses on Hava, Queen … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Cashore's Seasparrow (Graceling Realm, #5) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

13. 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 Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

14. 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

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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 Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2) by Margaret  Owen

15. Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2)

By: Margaret Owen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Let’s get one thing straight—Vanja Schmidt wasn’t trying to start a cult. After taking down a co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) by Rachel Hartman

16. Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.91

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Meet Tess, a brave new heroine from beloved epic fantasy author Rachel Hartman. In the medieval … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • teen
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am the prayer ."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"Belief was uniquely human."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"You’re making assumptions."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"What’s done cannot be undone."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

Cover of Daughter of the Serpentine (Dragoneer Academy, #2) by E.E. Knight

17. Daughter of the Serpentine (Dragoneer Academy, #2)

By: E.E. Knight

4.23

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

As a young dragoneer moves through the ranks of the prestigious Serpentine Academy, her challenges … read more

Similar categories in E.E. Knight's Daughter of the Serpentine (Dragoneer Academy, #2) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • dragons
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Devil's Gun (Disco Space Opera #2) by Cat Rambo

18. Devil's Gun (Disco Space Opera #2)

By: Cat Rambo

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No one escapes their past as the crew of the You Sexy Thing attempts to navigate the hazards of ope… read more

Similar categories in Cat Rambo's Devil's Gun (Disco Space Opera #2) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • audiobook
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of The Good and the Green (The Wilderise Tales, #1) by Amy Yorke

19. The Good and the Green (The Wilderise Tales, #1)

By: Amy Yorke

3.78

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes will love this heartwarming tale of finding love and co… read more

Similar categories in Amy Yorke's The Good and the Green (The Wilderise Tales, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Dragon Librarian (Scrolls of Fire, #1) by Marc Secchia

20. The Dragon Librarian (Scrolls of Fire, #1)

By: Marc Secchia

4.29

Format: 520 pages, Kindle Edition

Blind. Outcast. Accursed. From the meanest of beginnings, greatness will rise. Abandoned at birth … read more

Similar categories in Marc Secchia's The Dragon Librarian (Scrolls of Fire, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • dragons
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Beta (The Apex Cycle, #1) by M.T. Zimny

21. Beta (The Apex Cycle, #1)

By: M.T. Zimny

4.70

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Samantha Havardson is not an Apex. Seriously. She’s completely ordinary with a totally normal famil… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Zimny's Beta (The Apex Cycle, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure

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