11 Best science fiction fantasy books like The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1) by A.K. Larkwood

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The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

By: A.K. Larkwood

3.73

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the …

"Much is lost, but much lasts. . ."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

"Much is lost, but much lasts. . ."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

"Much is lost, but much lasts. . ."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

"She told him the plan. It was loud and dumb and very likely to hurt, so, of course, he agreed."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1) by A.K. Larkwood , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency, #1)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Even gods can be slain.... The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach--bu… read more

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2. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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3. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

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"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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4. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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5. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
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6. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more

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"Bones are mediocre."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I remember being eighteen."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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7. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.32

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

"The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destr… read more

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"Baru,"

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"You cannot destroy the masters by mastering them. You destroy them by destroying."

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"Yes, Juris thought. Keep trying. Keep finding wrongs, and naming them, and trying to make them right. Never stop. Even now."

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

"Baru felt a profound empathy for her attacker. Falcrest has cut your people, cut off lips and balls and fingers and tongues, and you cannot get justice. You cannot wait for history to turn in your fa…"

-Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

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8. 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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"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

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9. 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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"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)

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10. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

By: Tasha Suri

4.13

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more

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"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"

-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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11. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.18

Format: 146 pages, ebook

When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more

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  • audiobook
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"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

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12. 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

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"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)

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13. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword… read more

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"Evidence,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Too many words,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Harrow said, “But you're God."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Death first to vultures and scavangers."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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14. Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.97

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a magical war destroyed an empire, and a new one was built in its ashes. But still the ol… read more

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15. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

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"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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16. The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

By: A.K. Larkwood

3.73

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the … read more

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"Much is lost, but much lasts. . ."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

"She told him the plan. It was loud and dumb and very likely to hurt, so, of course, he agreed."

-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates, #1)

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17. Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1)

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.09

Format: 692 pages, Kindle Edition

To be born into a family of royal assassins pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be… r… read more

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18. Lady Eve's Last Con

By: Rebecca Fraimow

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hearts will race and anti-grav boots will fly in this scifi rom-com perfect for fans of WINTER'S OR… read more

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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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20. The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

By: Linden A. Lewis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alon… read more

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"Go to sleep, I sing. “No,"

-Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

"Isn’t that what growing up means, learning to be disappointed by your parents? You’ve said it is accepting them as human, but that’s the same damn thing, Lito. Seeing your parents as humans instead o…"

-Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

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21. Relics of Ruin (Books of the Usurper, #2)

By: Erin M. Evans

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From a rising star in epic fantasy comes the captivating second novel in a trilogy featuring an unl… read more

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