7 best-selling high fantasy books like Water Horse by Melissa Scott

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Water Horse

By: Melissa Scott

4.23

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

For the last twenty years, Esclin Aubrinos, arros of the Hundred Hills, has acted jointly with Alci…

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Water Horse by Melissa Scott , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Dragon Haven (Rain Wild Chronicles, #2) by Robin Hobb

1. Dragon Haven (Rain Wild Chronicles, #2)

By: Robin Hobb

4.10

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. Return to the world of the Liveships Traders … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

2. Dire Straits

By: Megan Derr

3.50

Format: None pages, ebook

Less than a century ago, the world was a dangerous place. Monsters ran wild, and the only thing mor… read more

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3. Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4)

By: Robin Hobb

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The dragons' survival hangs in the balance in the thrilling final volume in the acclaimed River Wil… read more

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4. The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Hardcover

Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities… read more

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5. Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)

By: Mercedes Lackey

3.46

Format: None pages,

A KINGDOM IMPERILED! Chosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond … read more

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6. City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #3)

By: Robin Hobb

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Once, dragons ruled the Rain Wilds, tended by privileged human servants known as Elderlings. But a … read more

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7. Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)

By: Robin Hobb

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The acclaimed Farseerand Liveship Traderstrilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splend… read more

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8. Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3)

By: Robin Hobb

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

FitzChivalry Farseer has become firmly ensconced in the queen's court. Along with his mentor, Chade… read more

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9. City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.09

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutali… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Death is for the weak."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"There is no crueler hells then committee work...."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

"I am lost among the seas of fate and time But at least I have love."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)

10. The Wrong Stars

By: Tim Pratt

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A ragtag crew of humans and posthumans discover alien technology that could change the fate of huma… read more

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11. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) by K.J. Charles

12. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

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  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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13. A Thief in the Night

By: K.J. Charles

3.77

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Toby never meant to be a highway robber, but needs must. He didn’t plan to impersonate a top London… read more

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  • queer
  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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14. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Cover of The Grief of Stones  (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) by Katherine Addison

15. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) book and Melissa Scott's Water Horse

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. A Theory of Haunting

By: Sarah Monette

3.95

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1) by Richard  Swan

17. The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)

By: Richard Swan

4.01

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16) by Steven Brust

18. Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

By: Steven Brust

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

First comes love. Then comes marriage… Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may ju… read more

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  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
"Too much weird at once and you just gotta take what piece of it you can and deal with that, worry about the rest later."

-Steven Brust, Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

Cover of Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke

19. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

By: Sue Burke

3.91

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

Cover of Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) by A.Y. Chao

20. Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

By: A.Y. Chao

3.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-s… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Try no to die, okay? I've become rather fond of you. "I'm very hard to kill," I murmur."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"You named two of the' – he clears his throat – 'fiercest creatures of legend, Cutie and Puffy?"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"The next morning I am rudely awakened by cocks crowing. A lot of cocks crowing. I yank the quilt over my head and try to smother the hoarse, braying sounds. It sounds like a whole flock of cocks has …"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

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21. A Lady for a Duke

By: Alexis Hall

4.07

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect… read more

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  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I will never forget him. But"

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

"Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people."

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

Cover of Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1) by Darcie Little Badger

22. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.00

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

Cover of The Heart of a Dragonslayer (Legendary Hearts, #1) by Megan Derr

23. The Heart of a Dragonslayer (Legendary Hearts, #1)

By: Megan Derr

4.24

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest son in a large family, easily overlooked by busy parents and siblings all significantl… read more

Similar categories in Megan Derr's The Heart of a Dragonslayer (Legendary Hearts, #1) book and Melissa Scott's Water Horse

  • high fantasy
  • m m romance
  • fantasy
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24. The Empty Throne

By: Megan Derr

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

The Kingdom of Cremisio is in turmoil—the royal family dead by assassination, a secret heir no one … read more

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  • m m romance
  • fantasy
  • lgbt
Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

25. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Magic Outside the Box (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #3) by Honor Raconteur

26. Magic Outside the Box (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #3)

By: Honor Raconteur

4.45

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Henri is quite accustomed to dangerous and unusual cases landing in his lap. Being partnered to the… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Assassin by Accident (Carnival of Mysteries) by E.J.   Russell

27. Assassin by Accident (Carnival of Mysteries)

By: E.J. Russell

4.30

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

This kindle edition and the ebook edition both have ISBN 9781947033566. If a megalomaniacal ea… read more

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  • m m romance
  • fantasy
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

28. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and Melissa Scott's Water Horse

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Flowering of Ink by K.L. Noone

29. A Flowering of Ink

By: K.L. Noone

4.32

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

One misdirected card ... and a chance at love.Professor Burne Cameron loves his job and his environ… read more

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  • m m romance
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Water Horse by Melissa Scott

30. Water Horse

By: Melissa Scott

4.23

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

For the last twenty years, Esclin Aubrinos, arros of the Hundred Hills, has acted jointly with Alci… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Scott's Water Horse book and Melissa Scott's Water Horse

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Map and the Territory (Spell and Sextant #1) by A.M. Tuomala

31. The Map and the Territory (Spell and Sextant #1)

By: A.M. Tuomala

4.00

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

When the sky breaks apart and an earthquake shatters the seaside city of Sharis, cartographer Rukha… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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4.10

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4.09

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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K.J. Charles

4.25

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Marina J. Lostetter

3.00

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Peter Watts

4.01

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Max Nowaz

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