7 must-read adventure books like In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2) by Rachel Hartman

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In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.96

Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition

MIND OF THE WORLD, OPEN YOUR EYES. At the bottom of the world lies a Serpent, the last of its k…

If you liked the adventure plot in In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2) by Rachel Hartman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.93

Format: None pages,

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly… read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1) book and Rachel Hartman's In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

2. Heroine Complex (Heroine Complex, #1)

By: Sarah Kuhn

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Being a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even harder. Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal … read more

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3. Chaos Choreography (InCryptid #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fifth book in Seanan McGuire's funny and fast-paced urban fantasy InCryptid series featuring ballro… read more

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4. Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1)

By: Jacqueline Koyanagi

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely … read more

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5. Even the Darkest Stars (Even the Darkest Stars #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

2.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Kamzin has always dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers task… read more

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6. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

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  • dragons
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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8. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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9. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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10. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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11. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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14. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the c… read more

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  • lgbt
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If you have any enemies I'll kill them and you can dissect them. Would you like that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that. ... "The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmi…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"The one advantage police had over paladins was that guards had no problem believing that someone would randomly shove pointy logs into other people. Paladins generally took a little longer to get the…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

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16. Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

By: Kristin Cashore

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Something is rotten in the heart of Winterkeep... Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new la… read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...I am, without a doubt, not what my family hoped I would be."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"They’re stronger than me. But I’m stronger then the way they’re trying to make me feel."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"Oh, it was all such a mess, the things people did to each other, and the decisions that had to be made."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

"It was a problem with no solution. Whichever path she chose would be harder than she felt she could stand."

-Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

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17. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Seasparrow (Graceling Realm, #5)

By: Kristin Cashore

4.12

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The fifth novel in the bestselling and award winning Graceling Realm series focuses on Hava, Queen … read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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20. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

By: Naomi Novik

4.13

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to t… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Les seuls miracles que nous recevons jamais sont ceux que nous façonnons nous-mêmes, et nous payons par avance pour chacun d'entre eux."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone e…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn’t really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this w…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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21. Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

4.21

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought to understan… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There are times where you have all the tools you need and all there is to do is to do it."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)

"There are places where you belong, where blood gives you access. However, they aren't always the best places to go."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)

"Common sense is the result of the truest education. Education is like wine. It takes time. It's a process. The young sometimes have to go through it. And sometimes, they die trying. Sincerely, The Ob…"

-Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)

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22. Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1)

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.09

Format: 692 pages, Kindle Edition

To be born into a family of royal assassins pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be… r… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
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23. Rust in the Root

By: Justina Ireland

4.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Magic in the Weave (Gabriel Taverner #4) by Alys Clare

24. Magic in the Weave (Gabriel Taverner #4)

By: Alys Clare

3.93

Format: 300 pages, ebook

A theatre company bring secrets, magic and murder along with them on their 'Plague Tour', in this b… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Buried Deep and Other Stories

By: Naomi Novik

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • dragons
Cover of Symbiosis (Escaping Exodus, #2) by Nicky Drayden

26. Symbiosis (Escaping Exodus, #2)

By: Nicky Drayden

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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27. Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy following a boy journeying away from the only home he’s ever known and into the magical r… read more

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  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And feeling someone else's feelings...' Never replied softly. 'It's still lonely, but it's so much bigger than lonely. It's not hitting five people or one with the trolley but flying it off the track…"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods

"How dare they speak so unkindly of stories? Stories never did anything to them! Stories are only here to love you and look after you and show you a good time… Stories don’t even ask anything in retur…"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods

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28. In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.96

Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition

MIND OF THE WORLD, OPEN YOUR EYES. At the bottom of the world lies a Serpent, the last of its k… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hartman's In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2) book and Rachel Hartman's In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road, #2)

  • dragons
  • lgbt
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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29. Seven Endless Forests

By: April Genevieve Tucholke

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous standalone companion to the critically acclaimed fantasy, The Boneless Mercies, Ap… read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • high fantasy
  • fantasy
"Is there anything better in life than having brave, true friends?"

-April Genevieve Tucholke, Seven Endless Forests

Cover of Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (Unstoppable #2) by Charlie Jane Anders

30. Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (Unstoppable #2)

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky) comes the se… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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31. Secrets of the Lost Ledgers (The Glass Library #5)

By: C.J. Archer

4.28

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

An invisible message from a dead man resurrects a decades-old mystery.With her sharpened magical se… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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