15 must-read fantasy books like Lent by Jo Walton

Cover of Lent by Jo Walton

Lent

By: Jo Walton

3.98

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Lent by Jo Walton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3) by Mervyn Peake

1. Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)

By: Mervyn Peake

3.45

Format: 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner… read more

Similar categories in Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the…"

-Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)

Cover of Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2) by Mervyn Peake

2. Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)

By: Mervyn Peake

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrin… read more

Similar categories in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. The Glass Town Game

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Glass Town Game book and Jo Walton's Lent

4. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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5. Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "re… read more

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6. The Iron Dragon's Daughter

By: Michael Swanwick

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

A slave in a dragon factory that manufactures flying fighting machines, Jane changes her destiny wh… read more

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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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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9. Hawk Mountain

By: Conner Habib

3.75

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception,… read more

Similar categories in Conner Habib's Hawk Mountain book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • fiction
Cover of Derring-Do for Beginners (The Red Company, #1) by Victoria   Goddard

10. Derring-Do for Beginners (The Red Company, #1)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.53

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Friends by chance--or is it fate? Damian Raske and Jullanar Thistlethwaite are about as different a… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Goddard's Derring-Do for Beginners (The Red Company, #1) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer by Garth Nix

11. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) by Alex Pheby

12. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

By: Alex Pheby

3.60

Format: 617 pages, Hardcover

GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pheby's Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"

-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

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13. Lent

By: Jo Walton

3.98

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Lent book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • italy
  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • alternate history
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2) by Nicola Griffith

14. Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

By: Nicola Griffith

4.48

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

In the much anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seven… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I hate thorns,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"You are Christian?"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"Cadwallon is like a hawk,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"If people felt safe, they stayed."

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

15. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

16. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • religion
Cover of The Return of Fitzroy Angursell (The Red Company Reformed, #1) by Victoria   Goddard

17. The Return of Fitzroy Angursell (The Red Company Reformed, #1)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.40

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Artorin Damara is the Last Emperor of Astandalas and present Lord Magus of Zunidh. He is respected … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Goddard's The Return of Fitzroy Angursell (The Red Company Reformed, #1) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Exadelic

By: Jon Evans

3.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark ar… read more

Similar categories in Jon Evans's Exadelic book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

19. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Nicked by M.T. Anderson

20. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Confounding Oaths

By: Alexis Hall

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone wrong, … read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Confounding Oaths book and Jo Walton's Lent

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

16 best-selling fiction books like Lent by Jo Walton

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Mervyn Peake

3.45

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Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)

Mervyn Peake

3.82

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The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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Ann Leckie

3.92

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The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

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Royal Airs (Elemental Blessings, #2)

Sharon Shinn

4.43

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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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