6 must-read high fantasy books like A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1) by Alexandra Rowland

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A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

3.93

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

In a bleak, far-northern land, a wandering storyteller is arrested on charges of witchcraft. Though…

"She’d make Nuryevet a strong country, unified again under one ruler, a country where the men were beautiful and the women were powerful and the children were healthy and bright-eyed (comment: I love how the author switches gender norms and normalizes it off-handedly throughout the book)"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"She’d make Nuryevet a strong country, unified again under one ruler, a country where the men were beautiful and the women were powerful and the children were healthy and bright-eyed (comment: I love how the author switches gender norms and normalizes it off-handedly throughout the book)"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Who you are isn't the thoughts in your head or the fears in your heart or the name someone else gives you or takes from you. Who you are is what you do. It's the actions you take, or that you don't take. It's the way that you help people, or don't. It's the good that you put into the world, or the bad."

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Who you are isn't the thoughts in your head or the fears in your heart or the name someone else gives you or takes from you. Who you are is what you do. It's the actions you take, or that you don't take. It's the way that you help people, or don't. It's the good that you put into the world, or the bad."

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

If you liked the high fantasy plot in A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1) by Alexandra Rowland , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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2. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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3. 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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  • lgbt
  • 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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4. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • 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)

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5. Death in the Spires

By: K.J. Charles

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

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  • lgbt
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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

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8. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

By: Everina Maxwell

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."

-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)

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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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science 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

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10. 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

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

By: Foz Meadows

4.02

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” Velasin vin Aaro never planne… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"…rest assured, making a spectacle of myself by kissing strange men at parties is one of my foremost skill sets."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"I didn’t know wether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live or because I hope to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded."

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

"It was like being haunted: I had no control over what apparently innocent thing would suddenly turn spectre, making me fear his hands, his voice, as though it were happening again; as though, in some…"

-Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, #1)

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12. At the Feet of the Sun (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #2)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.57

Format: 1330 pages, Kindle Edition

Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who … read more

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  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. Traveller's Joy (Greenwing & Dart)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.43

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

Hal's university career ends quite satisfactorily for himself, but with heartbreak, drama, and pain… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Bone Harp

By: Victoria Goddard

4.49

Format: 280 pages, ebook

Thrice-cursed bard and warrior-elf Tamsin wakes up in Elfland after what might or might not have be… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Game of Courts (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #0.6)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.34

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius—Conju to his friends, or he would be if any of them ha… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
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  • lgbt
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16. The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

By: Victoria Goddard

4.45

Format: 969 pages, Kindle Edition

An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can cha… read more

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  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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  • queer
"He was not an artist of anything but the hidden intricacies underlying government bureaucracy, and no one else actually cared whether those were beautiful or not."

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"I am suggesting that as a leader it is your responsibility to shape the culture of your communities, to encourage them to beauty and resilience and prosperity, to make them thrive."

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"I am not, and have never been, willing to compromise my principles. When I look back on what I have done with my life I rest content knowing that when I have made mistakes, I made them from my princi…"

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

"It is a small thing, yes, but on small things hinge the turning of the world. Very rarely does the opportunity come to stand up against torture and evildoing - or for justice and equality - in the gr…"

-Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)

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17. Reforged

By: Seth Haddon

3.57

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Since time immemorial the warriors of the Paladin Order have harnessed arcane powers to protect the… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

3.93

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

In a bleak, far-northern land, a wandering storyteller is arrested on charges of witchcraft. Though… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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  • queer
"She’d make Nuryevet a strong country, unified again under one ruler, a country where the men were beautiful and the women were powerful and the children were healthy and bright-eyed (comment: I love …"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Who you are isn't the thoughts in your head or the fears in your heart or the name someone else gives you or takes from you. Who you are is what you do. It's the actions you take, or that you don't t…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"They swore up and down that Nuryevet was no different than any other place, that it was normal. They had gone out for their want, both of them, to tell me how lucky they were, how lucky they were tha…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Nuryevet wasn't a real thing--it was a story that people told one another. An idea they constructed in fantasy and then in stone and mortar, in lines of ink in labyrinthine law books, in cities and r…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

Cover of Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1) by K.M.  Enright

19. Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood, #1)

By: K.M. Enright

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

FATE IS A CRUEL MISTRESS The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire ha… read more

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  • lgbt
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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Dark Moon, Shallow Sea (The Gods of Night and Day #1)

By: David R. Slayton

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Raef wants revenge on the knights who killed his goddess, the moon. Her death darkened the night sk… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

By: Laura R. Samotin

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing … read more

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  • fantasy
  • queer
"It's not shameful to seek help for a wound," Mischa continued. "Whether a wound to your body, or one to your mind."

-Laura R. Samotin, The Sins on Their Bones (The Cursed Crown #1)

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