14 must-read fantasy books like The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi

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The Tangled Lands

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4-5) by Steven Brust

1. The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4-5)

By: Steven Brust

4.35

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In a world where other races live centuries, human Easterner Vlad narrates. Loiosh, fatally venomou… read more

Similar categories in Steven Brust's The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4-5) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Gambling isn’t fun; winning is fun."

-Steven Brust, The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4-5)

"Perhaps my existence was pointless in any grand scheme of things, but it kept me entertained."

-Steven Brust, The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4-5)

Cover of A Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton

2. A Night Without Stars

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following the astonishing The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Night Without Stars is the epic second and final… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's A Night Without Stars book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. The Wolves of Winter

By: Tyrell Johnson

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged… read more

Similar categories in Tyrell Johnson's The Wolves of Winter book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

By: Ted Chiang

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

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5. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

By: Zach Weinersmith , Kelly Weinersmith

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar c… read more

Similar categories in Zach Weinersmith's Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

6. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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7. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1)

By: Cat Rambo

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former … read more

Similar categories in Cat Rambo's You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Monstress: Book One

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Maika Halfwolf lives in a world gripped by war—an alternative, matriarchal 1900s Asia brimming with… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's Monstress: Book One book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

10. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.51

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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11. The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.15

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

Cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

12. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's And What Can We Offer You Tonight book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) by Elizabeth Bear

13. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

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14. Aspects

By: John M. Ford

3.89

Format: None pages, None

"The best writer in America, bar none."—Robert JordanAt last, the final work of John M. Ford—one of… read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's Aspects book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all."

-John M. Ford, Aspects

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15. 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 Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2) by Seanan McGuire

16. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.83

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2) book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

17. Thin Air

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and bruta… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Thin Air book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi

18. The Tangled Lands

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • anthologies
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

19. So Lucky

By: Nicola Griffith

3.64

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a for… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's So Lucky book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • adult
  • fiction
"A movement made a hundred times before, a thousand times before, except this time, instead of muscle and nerve performing their everyday miracle of coordination, I tilted to the right and started to …"

-Nicola Griffith, So Lucky

Cover of Echoes by Ellen Datlow

20. Echoes

By: Ellen Datlow

3.70

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the gen… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Echoes book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Or What You Will by Jo Walton

21. Or What You Will

By: Jo Walton

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of Among Others, an utterly original … read more

Similar categories in Jo Walton's Or What You Will book and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Writers are not nice people. We can't be."

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

"We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?"

-Jo Walton, Or What You Will

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