8 Top dungeons and dragons books like The Darkness Before the Dawn (Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, #2) by Ryan Hughes

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The Darkness Before the Dawn (Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, #2)

By: Ryan Hughes

3.32

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Companions half-elf Jedra and ex-templar Kayan search for a mentor that will help them to develop t…

If you liked the dungeons and dragons plot in The Darkness Before the Dawn (Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, #2) by Ryan Hughes , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.89

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Cover of Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8) by Steven Erikson

2. Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

By: Steven Erikson

4.37

Format: 1008 pages, Hardcover

In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is s… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"If we are to live, we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier. Just ask the man with the hammer."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

"The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind."

-Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

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3. The Shattered Land (Eberron: The Dreaming Dark, #2)

By: Keith Baker

3.97

Format: 570 pages,

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • dungeons and dragons
Cover of The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) by R. Scott Bakker

4. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Outcast (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #1) by Simon Hawke

5. The Outcast (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #1)

By: Simon Hawke

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A new set of heroes embarks upon a quest to discover the secrets of power in the Dark Sun world, in… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • dungeons and dragons
Cover of Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) by Joe Abercrombie

6. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"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 The Amber Enchantress (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #3) by Troy Denning

7. The Amber Enchantress (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #3)

By: Troy Denning

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Lure of Dark Sorcery. . . Borys: The Dragon of Athas, born of magic and sustained by the agony… read more

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  • dungeons and dragons
  • dark
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Cerulean Storm (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #5) by Troy Denning

8. The Cerulean Storm (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #5)

By: Troy Denning

3.83

Format: 208 pages,

Athas, world of the dark sun: Ruled for thousands of years by power-mad sorcerer-kings, its cities … read more

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  • dungeons and dragons
  • dark
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Verdant Passage (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #1) by Troy Denning

9. The Verdant Passage (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #1)

By: Troy Denning

4.04

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A new creed kindled from despair... Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • dungeons and dragons
Cover of The Nomad (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #3) by Simon Hawke

10. The Nomad (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #3)

By: Simon Hawke

3.83

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sorak finds Sale and uncovers the secrets of his past, and now embraces all the members of his trib… read more

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  • dungeons and dragons
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

11. Uprooted

By: Naomi Novik

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We… read more

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12. The City of Towers (Eberron: The Dreaming Dark, #1)

By: Keith Baker

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

The City of Towers launches a brand new novel line set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coas… read more

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13. The Shattered Mask (Forgotten Realms: Sembia, #3)

By: Richard Lee Byers

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Shamur Uskevren, the matriarch of one of Sembia's oldest and most powerful merchant families, … read more

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14. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

15. The Halls Of Stormweather (Sembia #1)

By: Richard Lee Byers , Clayton Emery , Paul S. Kemp , Lisa Smedman , Ed Greenwood , Dave Gross , Philip Athans , Voronica Whitney-Robinson

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seven authors--Ed Greenwood, Clayton Emery, Lisa Smedman, Dave Gross, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, Ri… read more

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16. The Obsidian Oracle (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad #4)

By: Troy Denning

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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17. The Crippled God (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #10)

By: Steven Erikson

3.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Bonehunters march for Kolanse, led by Adjunct Tavore. This woman with no gifts of magic, deemed… read more

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18. Dust of Dreams (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #9)

By: Steven Erikson

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world...… read more

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19. The Stars Are Legion

By: Kameron Hurley

1.50

Format: None pages,

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is t… read more

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20. Shift (Shift, #1-3; Silo, #2)

By: Hugh Howey

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform… read more

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21. The Crimson Legion (Dark Sun: Prism Pentad, #2)

By: Troy Denning

4.16

Format: 200 pages,

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22. Shadow's Witness (Forgotten Realms: Sembia, #2)

By: Paul S. Kemp

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Erevis Cale The loyal servant of the Uskevren family, has a terrible secret. Now, when a ruthless e… read more

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23. Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

By: Terry Goodkind

4.12

Format: 836 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Bags!"

-Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

"I am who I am; no more, no less."

-Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

"I wish people had half the honor of dragons."

-Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

"We all can be no more, or less, than who we are."

-Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)

Cover of Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

24. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Cover of The Seeker (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #2) by Simon Hawke

25. The Seeker (Dark Sun: Tribe of One, #2)

By: Simon Hawke

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The second book of the Tribe of One trilogy. Sorak the elfling sets out to find the mysterious and … read more

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  • dungeons and dragons
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Darkness Before the Dawn (Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, #2) by Ryan Hughes

26. The Darkness Before the Dawn (Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, #2)

By: Ryan Hughes

3.32

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Companions half-elf Jedra and ex-templar Kayan search for a mentor that will help them to develop t… read more

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  • childrens
  • dungeons and dragons
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • dark
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy

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