8 must-read high fantasy books like The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1) by Tanith Lee

Cover of The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1) by Tanith Lee

The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

By: Tanith Lee

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

She woke from a sleep of countless years, reborn from the heart of a raging volcano. Her body was a…

If you liked the high fantasy plot in The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1) by Tanith Lee , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Clariel (Abhorsen, #4) by Garth Nix

1. Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)

By: Garth Nix

3.88

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Clariel is not adjusting well to her new life in the city of Belisaere, the capita… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Clariel (Abhorsen, #4) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
"Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble."

-Garth Nix, Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)

"Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government."

-Garth Nix, Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)

"I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed."

-Garth Nix, Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)

"Anyone can go into Death,“ said Mogget, with a smirk. "Coming back again is the difficult part."

-Garth Nix, Clariel (Abhorsen, #4)

Cover of Heir of Sea and Fire (Riddle-Master, #2) by Patricia A. McKillip

2. Heir of Sea and Fire (Riddle-Master, #2)

By: Patricia A. McKillip

4.15

Format: 213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gate of Ivrel (Morgaine & Vanye, #1) by C.J. Cherryh

3. Gate of Ivrel (Morgaine & Vanye, #1)

By: C.J. Cherryh

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in C.J. Cherryh's Gate of Ivrel (Morgaine & Vanye, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • sword and sorcery
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Initiate (Time Master, #1) by Louise Cooper

4. The Initiate (Time Master, #1)

By: Louise Cooper

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The Seven Gods of Order had ruled unchallenged for an aeon, served by the Adepts of the Circle in t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) by Connie Willis

5. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

By: Connie Willis

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at h… read more

Similar categories in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1) by C.J. Cherryh

6. The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt-toothed … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1) by Tanith Lee

7. The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

By: Tanith Lee

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

She woke from a sleep of countless years, reborn from the heart of a raging volcano. Her body was a… read more

Similar categories in Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • sword and sorcery
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G. Coney

8. Hello Summer, Goodbye

By: Michael G. Coney

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

It was an alien planet - yet not too alien from Earth. It had its differences; its ice goblins, its… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Coney's Hello Summer, Goodbye book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

9. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playma… read more

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10. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more

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11. Goldenhand (Abhorsen, #5)

By: Garth Nix

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Lirael knows the blood that runs in her veins and her true powers. She also knows that Chlorr of th… read more

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12. The Devourers

By: Indra Das

2.62

Format: None pages,

On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musi… read more

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13. 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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14. Blackout (All Clear, #1)

By: Connie Willis

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the pas… read more

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15. Grave Witch (Alex Craft, #1)

By: Kalayna Price

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, but that doesn't mean she likes what they have to say… read more

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Cover of Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) by Jacqueline Carey

16. Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

By: Jacqueline Carey

4.02

Format: 1040 pages, Paperback

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
"All knowledge is worth having."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"Wars come and go; politics endure."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"For every victory there is a price."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

"That which yields is not always weak."

-Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

17. Wintersong (Wintersong, #1)

By: S. Jae-Jones

4.00

Format: None pages,

Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tale… read more

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18. 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

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  • 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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19. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's White Cat, Black Dog: Stories book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

20. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

21. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs

22. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Baby X by Kira Peikoff

23. Baby X

By: Kira Peikoff

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest b… read more

Similar categories in Kira Peikoff's Baby X book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky

24. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Ogres book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

25. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2) by T. Kingfisher

26. The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.22

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin.… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It could,"

-T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)

Cover of Spirit of the Wood by Kristen Britain

27. Spirit of the Wood

By: Kristen Britain

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This short novel set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Green Rider series tells the ba… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Britain's Spirit of the Wood book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) by Moses Ose Utomi

28. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

29. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

Cover of Illborn (The Illborn Saga, #1) by Daniel T. Jackson

30. Illborn (The Illborn Saga, #1)

By: Daniel T. Jackson

4.13

Format: 713 pages, Kindle Edition

Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. … read more

Similar categories in Daniel T. Jackson's Illborn (The Illborn Saga, #1) book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

31. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (Birthgrave, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction

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C.J. Cherryh

4.05

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Louise Cooper

4.00

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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

Connie Willis

3.50

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Kamilah Cole

3.90

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Joelle Wellington

3.99

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