5 must-read epic fantasy books like The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1) by Katharine Kerr

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The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

By: Katharine Kerr

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Katharine Kerr's richly imagined cycle of novels set in Deverry and the Westlands has earned a devo…

If you liked the epic fantasy plot in The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1) by Katharine Kerr , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1) by Janny Wurts

1. The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

By: Janny Wurts

3.77

Format: 830 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the… read more

Similar categories in Janny Wurts's The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence."

-Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

"Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged."

-Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

"An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force."

-Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

"A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy."

-Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

Cover of The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1) by Mercedes Lackey

2. The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)

By: Mercedes Lackey

4.10

Format: 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin'a'in people she saw her entire… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw."

-Mercedes Lackey, The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)

"She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go."

-Mercedes Lackey, The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)

"Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs."

-Mercedes Lackey, The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)

Cover of Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

3. Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.76

Format: 361 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover edition here. Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's far… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods." "Do you?" "I belie…"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)

"But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—w…"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)

"(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was not allowed to eat. Was it possible to be starved for so long as to forget the taste of food, for the…"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)

Cover of King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1) by Kate Elliott

4. King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)

By: Kate Elliott

3.81

Format: 636 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Kingdom of Wendar is in turmoil. King Henry still holds the crown, but his reign has long been … read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"I am like you, Bloodheart,"

-Kate Elliott, King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)

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5. The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

By: Katharine Kerr

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Katharine Kerr's richly imagined cycle of novels set in Deverry and the Westlands has earned a devo… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • dragons
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Warrior Lives (Guardians of the Flame #5) by Joel Rosenberg

6. The Warrior Lives (Guardians of the Flame #5)

By: Joel Rosenberg

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The word arrives that Karl Cullinane is dead. Jason, his son and heir, assumes command. He leads th… read more

Similar categories in Joel Rosenberg's The Warrior Lives (Guardians of the Flame #5) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • dragons
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

7. CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga, #14)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

8. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, st… read more

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9. The Heir Apparent (Guardians of the Flame, #4)

By: Joel Rosenberg

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Karl Cullinane and his fellow Earth--exiles Andrea, Ahira, Walter and Lou had succeeded beyond thei… read more

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Cover of Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10) by Lois McMaster Bujold

10. Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.43

Format: 509 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persu… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Save me from the virtuous."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"God save me from another such victory."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"You try to give away what you want yourself."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

"Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)

11. Legacy (The Sharing Knife, #2)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages,

Newlywed Fawn Bluefield, clever farmer, and Dag Redwing Hickory, seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcer… read more

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12. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.20

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

"I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

"Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of ligh…"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

"Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing …"

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

Cover of Diplomatic Immunity (Vorkosigan Saga, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

13. Diplomatic Immunity (Vorkosigan Saga, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.19

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity (Vorkosigan Saga, #13)

14. The Sword and the Chain (Guardians of the Flame, #2)

By: Joel Rosenberg

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

WARRIOR, WIZARD, DWARF, THEIF, AND MASTER BUILDER <.b> all of them had chosen this world as their d… read more

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15. The Silver Crown (Guardians of the Flame, #3)

By: Joel Rosenberg

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

MAGIC'S DEADLY EDGE The stronghold called Home was prospering, and karl's dream of bringing freedom… read more

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16. Passage (The Sharing Knife, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

2.88

Format: 29 pages,

Fawn and necromancer-patroller husband Dag seek solutions to the perilous split between their peopl… read more

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17. Horizon (The Sharing Knife, #4)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.29

Format: 156 pages,

Fawn's husband Dag apprentices to a master groundsetter. But the camp has rigid mores with respect … read more

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18. Cold Burn of Magic (Black Blade, #1)

By: Jennifer Estep

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

There Be Monsters Here. . . It's not as great as you'd think, living in a tourist town that's known… read more

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19. The Flowers of Vashnoi

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.10

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) by Lois McMaster Bujold

20. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) book and Katharine Kerr's The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1)

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
Cover of House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi

21. House of Gold

By: C.T. Rwizi

4.27

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

From visionary author C. T. Rwizi comes the epic journey of four people on a distant planet who fac… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

13 Top science fiction fantasy books like The Red Wyvern (The Dragon Mage, #1) by Katharine Kerr

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The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

Janny Wurts

3.77

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The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, #1)

Mercedes Lackey

4.10

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Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, #1)

Lois McMaster Bujold

3.76

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King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, #1)

Kate Elliott

3.81

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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)

David Brin

4.04

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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

David Brin

3.69

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Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington, #5)

David Weber

3.82

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Thief! (The Queen's Thief, #0.5)

Megan Whalen Turner , Chad Cameron

4.04

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