5 must-read urban fantasy books like Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

Cover of Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

For the 1st printing edition of this ISBN, see . HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranor…

If you liked the urban fantasy plot in Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Fated (Alex Verus, #1) by Benedict Jacka

1. Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

By: Benedict Jacka

3.90

Format: 295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Enter a “gorgeously realized world”* and meet a mage destined for greatness in the first novel in t… read more

Similar categories in Benedict Jacka's Fated (Alex Verus, #1) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend."

-Benedict Jacka, Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

"For years I'd been trying to forget..., locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise tha…"

-Benedict Jacka, Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

"If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and …"

-Benedict Jacka, Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

"Other mages have an odd attitude towards diviners. By the standards of, say, elemental mages. We can't gate, we can't attack, we can't shield, and when it comes to physical action our magic is about …"

-Benedict Jacka, Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

Cover of Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) by Joe Abercrombie

2. Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.34

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a b… read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You have to realistic about these things."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

Cover of The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie

3. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.21

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fucking pinks!"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"I’ve fought in three campaigns,"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"Body found floating by the docks..."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Cover of Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1) by Kevin Hearne

4. Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

By: Kevin Hearne

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Hearne's Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What's a fracking Cylon?"

-Kevin Hearne, Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

"Wow you need to get some sun."

-Kevin Hearne, Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

"Winning ugly is still winning."

-Kevin Hearne, Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

"Put your affairs in order, mortals,"

-Kevin Hearne, Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)

Cover of The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4) by Brandon Sanderson

5. The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric s… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7) by Brandon Sanderson

6. The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Lost Metal is the tentative title for the fourth and final book set in Mistborn Era 2. read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

7. Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

For the 1st printing edition of this ISBN, see . HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranor… read more

Similar categories in Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) by Joe Abercrombie

8. Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.35

Format: 441 pages, Trade Paperback

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with trai… read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"So we wait?"

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Empathy? What’s that?"

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Great men have great faults."

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Those with the least always lose the most in war."

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

Cover of Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

9. Best Served Cold

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge. There have … read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

10. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

11. Tress of the Emerald Sea

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, w… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Well, this isn't the part of the story where you ask questions. So kindly keep them to yourself."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

Cover of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

12. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmer… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am the one that nightmares fear"

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"There is more salt in this soup than there is soup."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Pay attention. At times, this is what heroism looks like."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Smiles, like radiation, are made more potent by proximity."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Cover of The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

13. The Sunlit Man

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.34

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the … read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's The Sunlit Man book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Try some curry powder next time. It has a much better flavor than tyranny. Less nutty."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"She knew how she liked to look. And she didn't care that others knew it was artificial. In expressing herself, the artificial became more authentic than the original."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all." "Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something el…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, s…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

Cover of Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells

14. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

By: Martha Wells

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Cover of The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2) by Brandon Sanderson

15. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.77

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, wher… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Horses were less the thundering creatures Of pounding hoof beats and unparalleled speed found in movies and more like golf carts that ran on a tank of grass and occasionally bit you."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

"A little pebble starts as an avalanche," I said. "Life isn't like the craps table, where the next roll has the same chance of winning as the last one. In real life, you lose a little - and that makes…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

Cover of The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5) by Ryan  Cahill

16. The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5)

By: Ryan Cahill

4.16

Format: 95 pages, ebook

The Order have watched over the continent of Epheria for thousands of years. But there are those wh… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Cahill's The Fall (The Bound and the Broken, #0.5) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) by Matt Dinniman

17. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

By: Matt Dinniman

4.53

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BKGYQXW The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-… read more

Similar categories in Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2) by Christopher Ruocchio

18. Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.39

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Ruocchio's Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2) book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Fool Moon #3 by Mark Powers

19. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Fool Moon #3

By: Mark Powers

4.19

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Chicago is awash in the blood of a werewolf's rampage -- and Harry Dresden is caught right in the m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Powers's Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Fool Moon #3 book and Jim Butcher's Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)

  • urban fantasy
Cover of Long Past Dues (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #2) by James J. Butcher

20. Long Past Dues (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #2)

By: James J. Butcher

4.07

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot w… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

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