11 must-read high fantasy books like Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1) by Lori M. Lee

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Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

By: Lori M. Lee

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she’s intent on becoming something. After years of training …

"For everyone who’s ever wondered if they were enough."

-Lori M. Lee, Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

"For everyone who’s ever wondered if they were enough."

-Lori M. Lee, Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

"For everyone who’s ever wondered if they were enough."

-Lori M. Lee, Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1) by Lori M. Lee , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye

1. Circle of Shadows

By: Evelyn Skye

3.75

Format: None pages,

The ninja-inspired YA fantasy duology follows Sora, a talented assassin, who is accused of being a … read more

Similar categories in Evelyn Skye's Circle of Shadows book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1) by Lyra Selene

2. Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1)

By: Lyra Selene

3.51

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sylvie has always known she deserves more. Out in the permanent twilight of the Dusklands, her guar… read more

Similar categories in Lyra Selene's Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
"Tell you?"

-Lyra Selene, Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1)

"My monster,"

-Lyra Selene, Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1)

"You are weak,"

-Lyra Selene, Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1)

"So you don’t mind,"

-Lyra Selene, Amber & Dusk (Amber & Dusk, #1)

Cover of The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) by Sophie Kim

3. The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1)

By: Sophie Kim

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kim's The God and the Gumiho (Fate's Thread, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

4. Dragonfruit

By: Makiia Lucier

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythol… read more

Similar categories in Makiia Lucier's Dragonfruit book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

"May Taga find your spirit and guide you home to the sea beyond. In clear water where danger will never catch you. Among the coral and caves where the bounty is full. Alongside your ancestors and thei…"

-Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

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5. Song of the Six Realms

By: Judy I. Lin

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy got… read more

Similar categories in Judy I. Lin's Song of the Six Realms book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • fantasy
Cover of Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) by Nicki Pau Preto

6. Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.21

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a d… read more

Similar categories in Nicki Pau Preto's Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"He wasn’t disappointed or hurt. He was livid. Let him be. She’d take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

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7. Sound the Gong (Kingdom of Three, #2)

By: Joan He

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, comes the dazzling and sweeping conclusio… read more

Similar categories in Joan He's Sound the Gong (Kingdom of Three, #2) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If he's to be my final sight in this world, I will make myself his."

-Joan He, Sound the Gong (Kingdom of Three, #2)

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8. Shielded (Shielded, #1)

By: KayLynn Flanders

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Library Binding

For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by… read more

Similar categories in KayLynn Flanders's Shielded (Shielded, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
"Don't dwell on your past - it's not where you're going"

-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)

"There was no time to think. No time to decide. My instincts were all I had left."

-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)

"If I walked away from this clearing, from this family, I could never leave the path I was choosing. I had to be all in, or all out...I wanted to stay, but I wouldn't. I remembered."

-KayLynn Flanders, Shielded (Shielded, #1)

Cover of Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho

9. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

Similar categories in Elaine U. Cho's Ocean's Godori book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

Cover of Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar

10. Star Daughter

By: Shveta Thakrar

3.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

If the night sky holds many secrets, it holds Sheetal Mistry's secret the closest. A secret that ex… read more

Similar categories in Shveta Thakrar's Star Daughter book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Seizing power is one thing, and holding it is quite another,"

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"Sheetal woke night after night singing songs no human knew..."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"You want to understand humans? That is what makes us—and art—what we are. That choice to keep getting back up and trying again in the face of suffering and injustice and despair."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

"What did she want? Adventures. Cupcakes and kulfi. To be star bright and mortal dark and make her own choices, too. To not be bound by other people’s expectations. More than anything, to be seen."

-Shveta Thakrar, Star Daughter

Cover of The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) by Vanessa Le

11. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Le's The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Sky on Fire

By: Jenn Lyons

3.75

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Enter a world ruled by dragons… Anahrod lives only for survival, preferring to thrive in the ju… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) by Hana  Lee

13. Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1)

By: Hana Lee

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-s… read more

Similar categories in Hana Lee's Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We Are the Song by Catherine Bakewell

14. We Are the Song

By: Catherine Bakewell

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A lush and beautiful fantasy set in a world where music is magic and the fate of many thrones lies … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Bakewell's We Are the Song book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

15. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1) by Lori M. Lee

16. Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

By: Lori M. Lee

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she’s intent on becoming something. After years of training … read more

Similar categories in Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • asian literature
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"For everyone who’s ever wondered if they were enough."

-Lori M. Lee, Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

Cover of Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1) by Amber Chen

17. Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1)

By: Amber Chen

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a world-class engineer like her father, but after h… read more

Similar categories in Amber Chen's Of Jade and Dragons (Fall of the Dragon, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • asian literature
  • fantasy
Cover of This Golden Flame by Emily   Victoria

18. This Golden Flame

By: Emily Victoria

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphaned and forced to serve her country’s ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing more than t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Victoria's This Golden Flame book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Saints of Storm and Sorrow (Stormbringer Saga, #1) by Gabriella Buba

19. Saints of Storm and Sorrow (Stormbringer Saga, #1)

By: Gabriella Buba

4.01

Format: 486 pages, ebook

In this an enthralling Filipino-inspired epic fantasy, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unw… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Buba's Saints of Storm and Sorrow (Stormbringer Saga, #1) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow

20. The Girl with No Reflection

By: Keshe Chow

3.44

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman chosen as the crown prince’s bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new hu… read more

Similar categories in Keshe Chow's The Girl with No Reflection book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Ghostsmith (House of the Dead, #2) by Nicki Pau Preto

21. Ghostsmith (House of the Dead, #2)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this action-packed finale to the House of the Dead Duology, Wren and her friends put everything … read more

Similar categories in Nicki Pau Preto's Ghostsmith (House of the Dead, #2) book and Lori M. Lee's Forest of Souls (Shamanborn, #1)

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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