7 Best adventure books like The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) by Megan Whalen Turner

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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for …

If you liked the adventure plot in The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) by Megan Whalen Turner , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1) by Melina Marchetta

2. Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1)

By: Melina Marchetta

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for… read more

Similar categories in Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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3. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more

Similar categories in Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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4. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

5. Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

By: Garth Nix

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with … read more

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6. The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy #1)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of t… read more

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7. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

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8. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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9. 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 Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(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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10. Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

By: Travis Baldree

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we nee… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"See you in the story past the story."

-Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Cover of The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1) by Robert         Reid

11. The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

By: Robert Reid

4.30

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early 16th century in the city of Mora, capital of Kermin, a cruel new ruler has come to pow… read more

Similar categories in Robert Reid's The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"Rafe smiled again. “I think Aleana can teach you how to work in a team and maybe you can teach her to be less reckless."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"Audun, there is something I must now explain to you. You are the illegitimate son of Alberon, who now calls himself Emperor of the North."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

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12. 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 Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
"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

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13. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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14. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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15. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • young adult
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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16. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

17. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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18. 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 Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Cover of Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1) by T. Kingfisher

20. Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I fear that I am not the best possible person for this, but I am the best possible person available at this time, which is much the same thing."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

"There was something about poverty that was a little like war. Either you had been there or you hadn't, and it wasn't really possible to explain it to anyone who hadn't."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

21. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) book and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure

19 best-selling fiction books like The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) by Megan Whalen Turner

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Katherine Addison

3.84

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Melina Marchetta

4.16

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Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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S.A. Chakraborty

4.03

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Travis Baldree

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