14 best-selling fantasy books like The River Into Darkness by Sean Russell

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The River Into Darkness

By: Sean Russell

4.04

Format: 786 pages, Hardcover

For the first time in an omnibus edition, this duology tells the tale of a twilight age for magic, …

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Cover of Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1) by Timothy Zahn

1. Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

By: Timothy Zahn

4.31

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral … read more

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"I did not refer to the legends themselves,"

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"Repression and revolt feed and devour each other."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"Still, even when false, legends can be most informative."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

"One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1)

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2. Mr. Adam

By: Pat Frank

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

After a devastating nuclear accident, all men on Earth are rendered sterile, even the unborn in the… read more

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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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"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. Skysworn (Cradle, #4)

By: Will Wight

3.57

Format: 384 pages,

With his duel fast approaching, Lindon is locked away in prison. As a Blackflame, he is too dangero… read more

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  • fantasy
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5. Century Rain

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catast… read more

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6. The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ing… read more

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7. To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

By: Tad Williams

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

As the evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King prepare for the kingdom-shattering culmination o… read more

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8. The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time, #5)

By: Robert Jordan

3.97

Format: None pages,

The fifth book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIM… read more

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9. Passage (The Sharing Knife, #3)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

2.88

Format: 29 pages,

Fawn and necromancer-patroller husband Dag seek solutions to the perilous split between their peopl… read more

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10. Horizon (The Sharing Knife, #4)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.29

Format: 156 pages,

Fawn's husband Dag apprentices to a master groundsetter. But the camp has rigid mores with respect … read more

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11. Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.18

Format: 501 pages, ebook

Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on… read more

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  • fantasy
"Please provide location and density of mass!"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"We don’t have time to amend your dogshit educations!"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"I ... suppose I find you ... refreshingly uncontained."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

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12. 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

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  • 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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13. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

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  • fantasy
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14. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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  • fantasy
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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

15. 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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  • fantasy
"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)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

16. 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

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  • fantasy
Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

17. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

18. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

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  • fantasy
"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

Cover of Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

19. Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1)

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.68

Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale… read more

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  • fantasy
"Information before you need it is just as dangerous as the lack of it."

-Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1)

"Stories are like knives: weapons or tools, depending on who is wielding them."

-Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1)

"When you pursue two rats at the same time, you catch neither, the pillar of Logic said. You do not divide forbidden meat with your teeth, the pillar of Religions and Philosophy whispered. A child doe…"

-Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, #1)

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20. The River Into Darkness

By: Sean Russell

4.04

Format: 786 pages, Hardcover

For the first time in an omnibus edition, this duology tells the tale of a twilight age for magic, … read more

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21. Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One

By: Hideyuki Kikuchi

3.89

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

A new omnibus collecting the first three volumes of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series! It i… read more

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