15 best-selling fantasy books like The Turquoise Serpent (Ashes of the Urn Book 1) by Alexander Palacio

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The Turquoise Serpent (Ashes of the Urn Book 1)

By: Alexander Palacio

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Sharp swords ring and dark magic crackles! In this tense, high-speed story, an exiled warrior and a…

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1. The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

By: Glen Cook

3.93

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some f… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?"

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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  • fiction
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

Cover of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Arthur C. Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Alfred Bester, Richard Matheson, Daniel Keyes, James Blish, Murray Leinster, Theodore Sturgeon, C.M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Fredric Brown, A.E. van Vogt, Jerome Bixby, Anthony Boucher, Tom Godwin, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, John W. Campbell Jr., Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lewis Padgett

3. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg , Robert A. Heinlein , Clifford D. Simak , Ray Bradbury , Fritz Leiber , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny , Damon Knight , Alfred Bester , Richard Matheson , Daniel Keyes , James Blish , Murray Leinster , Theodore Sturgeon , C.M. Kornbluth , Lester del Rey , Fredric Brown , A.E. van Vogt , Jerome Bixby , Anthony Boucher , Tom Godwin , Cordwainer Smith , Judith Merril , John W. Campbell Jr. , Stanley G. Weinbaum , Lewis Padgett

4.32

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

If you own only one anthology of classic science fiction, it should be The Science Fiction Hall of … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. The Dragon Masters

By: Jack Vance

3.80

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Man against dragon. Each bred for slaughter. "The Dragon Masters is a story grounded in genetic … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them."

-Jack Vance, The Dragon Masters

Cover of The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Béla Zombory-Moldován, Peter Zombory-Moldovan

5. The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914

By: Béla Zombory-Moldován , Peter Zombory-Moldovan

3.85

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday when World War I bro… read more

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Cover of Epiphany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun, #3-4) by Gene Wolfe

6. Epiphany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun, #3-4)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.25

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

The two novels combined in this omnibus (Caldé of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun) compri… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Green Pearl (Lyonesse #2) by Jack Vance

7. The Green Pearl (Lyonesse #2)

By: Jack Vance

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford

8. The Great Siege: Malta 1565

By: Ernle Bradford

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

In 1565 the Ottoman Empire was at its peak. Under their sultan, Solyman the Magnificent, the Turks … read more

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9. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

By: H.L. Mencken

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

The first book on Nietzsche ever to appear in English, this examination by legendary journalist H. … read more

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10. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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11. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

By: Oswald Spengler

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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12. The Everlasting Man

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more

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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Cover of That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) by C.S. Lewis

13. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) by H. Rider Haggard

14. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

By: H. Rider Haggard

3.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."

-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

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15. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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  • fiction
"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

16. The Star King (Demon Princes, #1)

By: Jack Vance

4.23

Format: 121 pages,

The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonist's parents were murdered by a pos… read more

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17. Past Master

By: R.A. Lafferty

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The golden planet of Astrobe, made in the image of Utopia, now faced a crisis which could destroy i… read more

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18. Soldier of Sidon

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his jou… read more

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19. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • fiction
  • pulp
  • fantasy
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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20. Warriorborn (The Cinder Spires #1.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.46

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of the Dresden Files comes an all-new, action-packed… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Broken Sword

By: Poul Anderson

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more

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  • sword and sorcery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"

-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword

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22. The Starless Crown (Moonfall, #1)

By: James Rollins

3.79

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save thei… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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24. My Brother's Keeper

By: Tim Powers

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONT Ë SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT. This is a ghost story. It… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Across the Sorrow Sea (The Seven Swords, #5) by Anthony Ryan

25. Across the Sorrow Sea (The Seven Swords, #5)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.29

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

THE SORROW SEA—THE MOST FEARED REGION IN ALL THE FIVE SEAS—PLAGUED BY STORMS, PROWLED BY A MURDEROU… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

26. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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27. Mine Were of Trouble

By: Peter Kemp

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Milita… read more

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28. The Turquoise Serpent (Ashes of the Urn Book 1)

By: Alexander Palacio

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Sharp swords ring and dark magic crackles! In this tense, high-speed story, an exiled warrior and a… read more

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  • sword and sorcery
  • fiction
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  • fantasy
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29. The Eye of Sounnu

By: Schuyler Hernstrom

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Once upon a time, short fiction was the mainstay of science fiction and fantasy readers. Titans lik… read more

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  • sword and sorcery
  • fantasy
Cover of Shagduk (De re dordica #1) by J.B.    Jackson

30. Shagduk (De re dordica #1)

By: J.B. Jackson

4.73

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

The year is 1977. Professor Sherwood has gone missing. Between working at the library and playing g… read more

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31. Aegeon: Science Fiction Illustrated

By: Brendan M.P. Heard

4.08

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

179 pages of thrilling original science fiction stories by Brendan Heard, Buffalo Jenkins, Jason Lu… read more

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16 Top fiction books like The Turquoise Serpent (Ashes of the Urn Book 1) by Alexander Palacio

Transform Your Habits

The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

Glen Cook

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964

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4.32

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Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Rachel Aaron

4.26

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