16 best-selling fantasy books like Scales of Empire by Kylie Chan

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Scales of Empire

By: Kylie Chan

3.31

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

An exciting new adventure filled with diverse characters, strong heroes and heroines and wild creat…

"Tea from the Japanese colony?' I said as she opened the airlock. 'Oh no, from my homeward. I think it's obvious that we've been here before: we check on developing civilisations, and sometimes quietly help them along. If we drop in on any young societies, we usually introduce them to tea."

-Kylie Chan, Scales of Empire

"Tea from the Japanese colony?' I said as she opened the airlock. 'Oh no, from my homeward. I think it's obvious that we've been here before: we check on developing civilisations, and sometimes quietly help them along. If we drop in on any young societies, we usually introduce them to tea."

-Kylie Chan, Scales of Empire

If you liked the fantasy plot in Scales of Empire by Kylie Chan , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) by Ann Leckie

1. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

By: Ann Leckie

4.08

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Captain,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"Do you even know,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

" Not tea but blood! "

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"I’d run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time…"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

Cover of Wood Sprites (Elfhome, #4) by Wen Spencer

2. Wood Sprites (Elfhome, #4)

By: Wen Spencer

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer a… read more

Similar categories in Wen Spencer's Wood Sprites (Elfhome, #4) book and Kylie Chan's Scales of Empire

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • dragons
Cover of Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) by Ann Leckie

3. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

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  • audiobook
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

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4. Wolf Who Rules (Elfhome, #2)

By: Wen Spencer

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

The popular fantasy novel Tinkerintroduced the inventor-heroine of the same name, who lives in a ne… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. The Heart of Valor (Confederation, #3)

By: Tanya Huff

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr's goal is to keep both her superior officers and her troops alive as they… read more

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  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy

6. The Better Part of Valor (Confederation #2)

By: Tanya Huff

3.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parenta… read more

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7. The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)

By: David Weber

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as a prelude to conquest. That's w… read more

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8. Eternity's Wheel (InterWorld, #3)

By: Neil Gaiman , Michael Reaves , Mallory Reaves

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The conclusion to the bestselling InterWorld series, from Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, and Mallory … read more

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9. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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10. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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11. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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13. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Burn

By: Patrick Ness

3.74

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of… read more

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  • queer
  • dragons
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Prophecy is slippery, dangerous, open to fatal misinterpretation."

-Patrick Ness, Burn

"Sarah felt that any world that needed this many lessons must have something deeply wrong with it."

-Patrick Ness, Burn

"Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that's the only thing that makes you human."

-Patrick Ness, Burn

"I'm just a girl." "It is tragic how well you have been taught to say that with sadness rather than triumph."

-Patrick Ness, Burn

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15. Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.74

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Floating Hotel

By: Grace Curtis

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • queer
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17. The Secret Runners of New York

By: Matthew Reilly

3.89

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

'The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . .No power, no lights, no people . . .It's a par… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sisters of the Fire (Blood and Gold, #2) by Kim Wilkins

18. Sisters of the Fire (Blood and Gold, #2)

By: Kim Wilkins

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the next chapter of a fantasy series featuring five unforgettable sisters—the warrior, the magic… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • dragons
  • audiobook
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19. Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

By: Bryan Thomas Schmidt

4.13

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

The second volume of short science fiction anthology. 26 stories from series such as Confederation… read more

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  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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20. Scales of Empire

By: Kylie Chan

3.31

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

An exciting new adventure filled with diverse characters, strong heroes and heroines and wild creat… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Chan's Scales of Empire book and Kylie Chan's Scales of Empire

  • audiobook
  • dragons
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Tea from the Japanese colony?' I said as she opened the airlock. 'Oh no, from my homeward. I think it's obvious that we've been here before: we check on developing civilisations, and sometimes quietl…"

-Kylie Chan, Scales of Empire

Cover of Daughters of the Storm (Blood and Gold, #1) by Kim Wilkins

21. Daughters of the Storm (Blood and Gold, #1)

By: Kim Wilkins

3.64

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five very different sisters team up against their stepbrother to save their kingdom in this Norse-f… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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