18 best-selling fantasy books like An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1) by Cate Glass

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An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

By: Cate Glass

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence. Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when…

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1. Gunpowder Alchemy (The Gunpowder Chronicles #1)

By: Jeannie Lin

4.00

Format: 50 pages,

In 1842, the gunpowder might of China's Qing Dynasty fell to Britain's steam engines. Furious, the … read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Lin's Gunpowder Alchemy (The Gunpowder Chronicles #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • fantasy

2. Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm." Va… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Much Ado About You (Essex Sisters, #1) by Eloisa James

3. Much Ado About You (Essex Sisters, #1)

By: Eloisa James

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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4. Grave Dance (Alex Craft, #2)

By: Kalayna Price

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Whoever said dead men tell no tales obviously never met Alex Craft. After a month spent recovering … read more

Similar categories in Kalayna Price's Grave Dance (Alex Craft, #2) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • magic
  • fantasy

5. Pleasure for Pleasure (Essex Sisters, #4)

By: Eloisa James

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fueled by the knowledge that notoriety is better than failure, witty, unconventional Josie does wha… read more

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6. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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7. Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3)

By: C.L. Polk

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, ro… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1)

By: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

3.85

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, … read more

Similar categories in Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan's The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Back up to the main street. The fires are mostly under control, and the Tallowmen - both the dead and the quick - have melted away, one set into the gutters and the other into the shadows."

-Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1)

"Change is simultaneously a fast and a slow process. The great forces of history are slow-moving and unnoticed by those surrounded by them, visible only in hindsight where they appear inevitable."

-Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1)

"Ongent just keeps huffing and puffing up the steps, as if he's out for an afternoon constitutional and his only worry is getting to the top of this little hill, not getting robbed and left in a ditch…"

-Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1)

"Idge says that there are moments when revolution is possible. Most of the time, we’re all – everyone, from the poorest beggar out there to the Patros on his golden throne – caught in the gears, contr…"

-Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy, #1)

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9. The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.04

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars. Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkli… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Trust is the thread that binds us... and the rope that hangs us."

-M.A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

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10. Aiduel's Sin (The Illborn Saga, #2)

By: Daniel T. Jackson

4.46

Format: 650 pages, Kindle Edition

How does the opportunity ever arise for one person to alter the destiny of a world? As the natio… read more

Similar categories in Daniel T. Jackson's Aiduel's Sin (The Illborn Saga, #2) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

3.86

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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13. Among Thieves (Thieves, #1)

By: M.J. Kuhn

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes heist novel set in a gritty world of magic and malice In just over a year’s time, … read more

Similar categories in M.J. Kuhn's Among Thieves (Thieves, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Race the Sands

By: Sarah Beth Durst

4.32

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In this stand-alone fantasy, Durst introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong an… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's Race the Sands book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

"You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you."

-Sarah Beth Durst, Race the Sands

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15. A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

3.93

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

In a bleak, far-northern land, a wandering storyteller is arrested on charges of witchcraft. Though… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She’d make Nuryevet a strong country, unified again under one ruler, a country where the men were beautiful and the women were powerful and the children were healthy and bright-eyed (comment: I love …"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Who you are isn't the thoughts in your head or the fears in your heart or the name someone else gives you or takes from you. Who you are is what you do. It's the actions you take, or that you don't t…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"They swore up and down that Nuryevet was no different than any other place, that it was normal. They had gone out for their want, both of them, to tell me how lucky they were, how lucky they were tha…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

"Nuryevet wasn't a real thing--it was a story that people told one another. An idea they constructed in fantasy and then in stone and mortar, in lines of ink in labyrinthine law books, in cities and r…"

-Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths (The Tales of the Chants, #1)

Cover of The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1) by K.S. Villoso

16. The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

By: K.S. Villoso

3.65

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A queen of a divided land must unite her people, even if they hate her, even if it means stopping a… read more

Similar categories in K.S. Villoso's The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The reality of ruling is complex."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"The loss does not diminish the love."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"There was more to being a leader than cutting down enemies."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

"Betrayal has a funny way of turning your world upside-down."

-K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)

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17. War Girls (War Girls, #1)

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.75

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only … read more

Similar categories in Tochi Onyebuchi's War Girls (War Girls, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

18. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray, #1) by C.L. Herman

19. The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray, #1)

By: C.L. Herman

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

On the edge of town a beast haunts the woods, trapped in the Gray, its bonds loosening… Uprooted… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Herman's The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Welcome to Four Paths. Nobody would stay here if they had a choice."

-C.L. Herman, The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray, #1)

"Sinners who were led astray, Wandered through the woods one day, Stumbled right into the Gray, Never to return. Hear the lies our gods will tell, The prison the Four wove so well, But listen to us wh…"

-C.L. Herman, The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray, #1)

Cover of An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1) by Cate Glass

20. An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

By: Cate Glass

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence. Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when… read more

Similar categories in Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1) book and Cate Glass's An Illusion of Thieves (Chimera, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Seventh Perfection

By: Daniel Polansky

3.62

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Daniel Polansky returns with The Seventh Perfection, an innovative, mind-bending fantasy mystery … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We are all mothers, when it comes down to it. And men are all children."

-Daniel Polansky, Seventh Perfection

"There is no such thing as truth, there is only belief, and belief is power."

-Daniel Polansky, Seventh Perfection

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