8 Top science fiction fantasy books like Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst

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Race the Sands

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.32

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In this stand-alone fantasy, Durst introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong an…

"Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

"Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

"You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

"You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

1. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

Cover of The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1) by James   Logan

2. The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1)

By: James Logan

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced … read more

Similar categories in James Logan's The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

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

3. 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 Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs

4. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Dragonfruit book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

Cover of The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) by M.A. Carrick

6. The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.04

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars. Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkli… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Trust is the thread that binds us... and the rope that hangs us."

-M.A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

Cover of The Case of the Felonious Faire (5-Minute Sherlock #3) by Drew  Hayes

7. The Case of the Felonious Faire (5-Minute Sherlock #3)

By: Drew Hayes

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

When a fiendish fraudster has been fomenting financial falsehoods, who can find the finagler? Th… read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayes's The Case of the Felonious Faire (5-Minute Sherlock #3) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1) by Django Wexler

8. 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

Similar categories in Django Wexler's Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed

9. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst

10. Race the Sands

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.32

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In this stand-alone fantasy, Durst introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong an… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

"You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

Cover of The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) by Hadeer Elsbai

11. The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)

By: Hadeer Elsbai

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

<From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wh… read more

Similar categories in Hadeer Elsbai's The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

12. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Daughter of the Merciful Deep by Leslye Penelope

13. Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

4.01

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more

Similar categories in Leslye Penelope's Daughter of the Merciful Deep book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

14. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wickwire Watch (The Riverfall Chronicles, #1) by Jacquelyn Hagen

15. The Wickwire Watch (The Riverfall Chronicles, #1)

By: Jacquelyn Hagen

4.01

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

TRUST NO ONE.It's the first and greatest rule Inkwell Featherfield ever learned. It's also the only… read more

Similar categories in Jacquelyn Hagen's The Wickwire Watch (The Riverfall Chronicles, #1) book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

16. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dancers of the Dawn by Zulekhá Afzal

17. Dancers of the Dawn

By: Zulekhá Afzal

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the desert a storm is brewing. The first in a slow burning YA romantasy. Under the blazi… read more

Similar categories in Zulekhá Afzal's Dancers of the Dawn book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Phoenix Keeper by S.A.  MacLean

18. The Phoenix Keeper

By: S.A. MacLean

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens,… read more

Similar categories in S.A. MacLean's The Phoenix Keeper book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Saga #67 by Brian K. Vaughan

19. Saga #67

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW STORY ARC SAGA returns for its epic 12th season as 12-year-old Hazel embarks on the most impor… read more

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Saga #67 book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We Alive, Beloved: Poems by Frederick Joseph

20. We Alive, Beloved: Poems

By: Frederick Joseph

4.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

NYT Bestselling Author, Frederick Joseph, explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collectio… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Joseph's We Alive, Beloved: Poems book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L.  Wang

21. Blood Over Bright Haven

By: M.L. Wang

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Wang's Blood Over Bright Haven book and Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

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Fonda Lee

3.90

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4.02

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Robert Jackson Bennett

None

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Nghi Vo

4.17

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