21 Best fantasy books like A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

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A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at…

"You feel like it’s going to rain."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

If you liked the fantasy plot in A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. 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 Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

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

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

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2. Tress of the Emerald Sea

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, w… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

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3. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

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4. Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.44

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.20

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived. -Thea Attwood"

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

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6. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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7. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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8. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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9. Babel

By: R.F. Kuang

4.18

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Babel book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

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10. 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 Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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)

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11. 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 Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

By: Olivie Blake

2.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Is this actually possible?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"It means the archives are “alive"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I will spend my life orbiting your,"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I'm constantly at risk for peril. Ask anyone!"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

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13. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)

By: Travis Baldree

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • magic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

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15. The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

By: Olivie Blake

3.55

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Socie… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Are you losing your mind?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Dinner together? Our last night?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Muder first and then scholarly pursuits"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Murder first and then scholarly pursuits"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

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16. Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.13

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. F… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Life is cruel. Magic is real. And I’m not ready to die"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"She was the kind of girl who was always okay. “A survivor,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

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17. Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.02

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"We all have spaces we keep blank."

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Quien no sabe de mar no sabe de mal!"

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Not every flower belongs in every garden."

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?"

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

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18. The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

By: Olivie Blake

3.59

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity,… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don't let me wake up alone."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"He finds the monsters we keep locked away and sets them loose, so why would I ever want him to see mine?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"A flaw of humanity: the compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

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19. 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

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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)

Cover of A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

20. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"You feel like it’s going to rain."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

"You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies."

-Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

Cover of Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

21. Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

By: Hannah Nicole Maehrer

3.92

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned nov… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Nicole Maehrer's Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1) book and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Caring about other people is very irritating."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing."

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"It seemed feeble to merely refer to her boss as a “person"

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

"She steadied him like an anchor to a wayward ship, and he couldn’t resist"

-Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

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4.40

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