28 must-read fantasy books like Sandymancer by David Edison

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Sandymancer

By: David Edison

3.45

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

A wild girl with sand magic in her bones and a mad god who is trying to fix the world he broke come…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Sandymancer by David Edison , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

4.25

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

The characters are off on a diplomatic mission to another Spire. A bunch of representatives of vari… read more

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2. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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3. 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 David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"(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)

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4. The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Format: 491 pages, Paperback

When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to sur… read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) by Mark  Lawrence

5. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
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7. The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1)

By: James Logan

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced … read more

Similar categories in James Logan's The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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8. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

Similar categories in Django Wexler's How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. Red River Seven

By: A.J. Ryan

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Seven strangers. One mission. Infinite horror. A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of w… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Ryan's Red River Seven book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

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12. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's And Put Away Childish Things book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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13. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) by Hannah Kaner

14. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

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15. Generation Ship

By: Michael Mammay

3.83

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

In this riveting, stand-alone novel from Michael Mammay, author of  Planetside,  the beginning of a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mammay's Generation Ship book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles, #1) by Taran Hunt

16. The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles, #1)

By: Taran Hunt

4.09

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure h… read more

Similar categories in Taran Hunt's The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

19. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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20. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Wayward (Wanderers, #2) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Touched

By: Walter Mosley

3.38

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly compl… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Touched book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and ra…"

-Walter Mosley, Touched

Cover of Beware of Chicken 3 (Beware of Chicken, #3) by CasualFarmer

22. Beware of Chicken 3 (Beware of Chicken, #3)

By: CasualFarmer

4.70

Format: 785 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming???? Jin Rou wanted to b… read more

Similar categories in CasualFarmer's Beware of Chicken 3 (Beware of Chicken, #3) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • fantasy
Cover of When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

23. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

Cover of Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) by Nnedi Okorafor

24. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

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25. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) by Charlotte Bond

26. The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1)

By: Charlotte Bond

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade (The Fireborne Blade, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

27. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy, #1) by Claire Legrand

28. A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy, #1)

By: Claire Legrand

3.15

Format: 554 pages, Hardcover

Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed… read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy, #1) book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

29. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Sandymancer by David Edison

30. Sandymancer

By: David Edison

3.45

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

A wild girl with sand magic in her bones and a mad god who is trying to fix the world he broke come… read more

Similar categories in David Edison's Sandymancer book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L.  Wang

31. Blood Over Bright Haven

By: M.L. Wang

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Wang's Blood Over Bright Haven book and David Edison's Sandymancer

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

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Peter S. Beagle

3.78

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4.22

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Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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