10 must-read role playing games books like Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt

Cover of Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt

Spire: The City Must Fall

By: Grant Howitt

4.46

Format: 220 pages, ebook

You are a dark elf. Your home, the towering city of Spire, was occupied by the high elves two hundr…

If you liked the role playing games plot in Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

1. In Real Life

By: Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang

3.81

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of … read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's In Real Life book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • gaming
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost. – You spent 90 gold on this?? – 90 gold is nothing when you're the baddest bitch in the virtual universe."

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"– I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt."

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabular…"

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to p…"

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

Cover of Dungeon World by Sage LaTorra, Adam Koebel

2. Dungeon World

By: Sage LaTorra , Adam Koebel

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Combining high-action dungeon crawling with cutting-edge rules, Dungeon World is a roleplaying game… read more

Similar categories in Sage LaTorra's Dungeon World book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Peripheral by William Gibson

3. The Peripheral

By: William Gibson

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's The Peripheral book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fiction
Cover of Monster of the Week by Michael  Sands

4. Monster of the Week

By: Michael Sands

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

There are monsters out there And you are mean enough, smart enough, crazy enough, or hurt enough, t… read more

Similar categories in Michael Sands's Monster of the Week book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
  • horror

5. Fate Core System

By: Ryan Macklin , Leonard Balsera , Mike Olson , Brian Engard , Jeremy Keller

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

CHARACTERS LIVE AT THE CORE OF FATE! A High Priestess of the barbarian hordes, an undead Wild West… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Macklin's Fate Core System book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming

6. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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7. A Silent Voice, Vol. 1 (A Silent Voice, #1)

By: Yoshitoki Oima

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

LEARNING TO LISTEN Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary schoo… read more

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8. Blades in the Dark

By: John Harper

4.11

Format: 14 pages, ebook

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their … read more

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9. Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

By: Goodman Games

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Youre no hero. Youre an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock … read more

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Cover of Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

10. 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 Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Liar’s Knot (Rook & Rose, #2) by M.A. Carrick

11. The Liar’s Knot (Rook & Rose, #2)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.46

Format: 629 pages, Paperback

Trust is the thread that binds us . . . and the rope that hangs us. In Nadezra, peace is as ten… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's The Liar’s Knot (Rook & Rose, #2) book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) by M.A. Carrick

12. 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 Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Trust is the thread that binds us... and the rope that hangs us."

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

Cover of Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3) by M.A. Carrick

13. Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.28

Format: 688 pages, ebook

“Lush, engrossing and full of mystery and dark magic" ( BookPage ), Labyrinth's Heart is the thrill… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3) book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu

14. Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

War has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends gr… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The difference between you and me, Lord Doctor, is that you believe you are brilliant. I, however, prepare as if I am not."

-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow

Cover of Lancer: The Mech RPG Core Rulebook by Miguel  Lopez

15. Lancer: The Mech RPG Core Rulebook

By: Miguel Lopez

4.43

Format: 548 pages, ebook

LANCER is the tabletop role playing game of mech combat created by Tom Parkinson-Morgan and Miguel … read more

Similar categories in Miguel Lopez's Lancer: The Mech RPG Core Rulebook book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
Cover of Mothership: Player's Survival Guide by Sean McCoy

16. Mothership: Player's Survival Guide

By: Sean McCoy

4.33

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most i… read more

Similar categories in Sean McCoy's Mothership: Player's Survival Guide book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • horror
Cover of Troika! Numinous Edition by Daniel Sell

17. Troika! Numinous Edition

By: Daniel Sell

4.39

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Troika! Numinous Edition is the new edition of our popular Troika! RPG, a complete science-fantasy … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sell's Troika! Numinous Edition book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
"Necromancers, known for their social inadequacy, often find themselves having to make friends."

-Daniel Sell, Troika! Numinous Edition

Cover of CY_BORG by Christian Sahlén

18. CY_BORG

By: Christian Sahlén

4.56

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate… read more

Similar categories in Christian Sahlén's CY_BORG book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
Cover of Into the Odd Remastered by Chris McDowall

19. Into the Odd Remastered

By: Chris McDowall

4.50

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A revised edition of the RPG originally released in 2014, Into the Odd Remastered is a 136 page boo… read more

Similar categories in Chris McDowall's Into the Odd Remastered book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
Cover of Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt

20. Spire: The City Must Fall

By: Grant Howitt

4.46

Format: 220 pages, ebook

You are a dark elf. Your home, the towering city of Spire, was occupied by the high elves two hundr… read more

Similar categories in Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • fiction
  • horror
  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
Cover of Wanderhome by Jay Dragon

21. Wanderhome

By: Jay Dragon

4.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Pastoral Fantasy Tabletop Role-Playing Game Set forth into a world of grassy fields, mossy shr… read more

Similar categories in Jay Dragon's Wanderhome book and Grant Howitt's Spire: The City Must Fall

  • role playing games
  • gaming
  • fantasy
"Often, in life, we don’t fail. Sometimes, we struggle to do something, get passed over, do something we wish we hadn’t, or give up. But even those moments aren’t truly failures in a pejorative sense.…"

-Jay Dragon, Wanderhome

"Most books contain stories within them, and they often know where the story will go and what, exactly, will happen. But one must be careful with stories—they are violent and cruel things after all, f…"

-Jay Dragon, Wanderhome

9 Best fiction books like Spire: The City Must Fall by Grant Howitt

Transform Your Habits

In Real Life

Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Dungeon World

Sage LaTorra , Adam Koebel

3.80

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The Peripheral

William Gibson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Untethered Sky

Fonda Lee

3.90

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8 must-read adult books like Wanderhome by Jay Dragon

Transform Your Habits

White Sand, Volume 1 (White Sand, #1)

Brandon Sanderson , Rik Hoskin , None

3.60

Transform Your Habits

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Becky Chambers

None

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The Lost Cause

Cory Doctorow

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

Tamsyn Muir

4.18

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