13 Best high fantasy books like The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World) by Christopher Paolini

Cover of The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World) by Christopher Paolini

The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.81

Format: 288 pages, ebook

It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaësia in search of the perfect home to train a new gener…

"Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"Blaming the dead for our mistakes never accomplishes much."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

If you liked the high fantasy plot in The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World) by Christopher Paolini , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

1. The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.48

Format: 541 pages, Hardcover

What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland? Mistborn For a thousand years the ash f… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Visit?"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"How do you do that?"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"There's always another secret.' -Kelsier"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

"Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

Cover of Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) by Pierce Brown

2. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

By: Pierce Brown

4.27

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they l… read more

Similar categories in Pierce Brown's Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) book and Christopher Paolini's The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Break the chains, my love."

-Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

"Rather a drink be my master than a man."

-Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

"Death is easy when you've already tried to find it."

-Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

"Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver."

-Pierce Brown, Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Cover of Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3) by Pierce Brown

3. Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

By: Pierce Brown

None

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his … read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

4. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.54

Format: 572 pages, Hardcover

"Description contains spoilers for previous book in the series" Who is the Hero of Ages? To e… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) book and Christopher Paolini's The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I ask of you your lives,"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

"What if they take you captive?"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

"A man is what he has passion about,"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

"An easy life taught one very little."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

Cover of The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World) by Christopher Paolini

5. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.81

Format: 288 pages, ebook

It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaësia in search of the perfect home to train a new gener… read more

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  • dragons
  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"Blaming the dead for our mistakes never accomplishes much."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"- I have questions, he said. - Then you have more wisdom than most."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

"Sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes running away isn't an option."

-Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia #1; The Inheritance Cycle World)

Cover of The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6) by Patrick Rothfuss

6. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

By: Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more

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  • magic
  • short stories
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

Cover of The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4) by J.R.R. Tolkien

7. The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more

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  • adventure
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Never is too long a word even for me..."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

Cover of Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

8. 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

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  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"See you in the story past the story."

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

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

9. 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

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

10. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmer… read more

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  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am the one that nightmares fear"

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"There is more salt in this soup than there is soup."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Pay attention. At times, this is what heroism looks like."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"Smiles, like radiation, are made more potent by proximity."

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Cover of The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

11. The Sunlit Man

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.34

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of The Stormlight Archive, the … read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Try some curry powder next time. It has a much better flavor than tyranny. Less nutty."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"She knew how she liked to look. And she didn't care that others knew it was artificial. In expressing herself, the artificial became more authentic than the original."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"Your planet shouldn't have different countries. You should have conquered and unified it all." "Conquest doesn't remove countries," Nomad said. "It removes lines on a map. Unity requires something el…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

"This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, s…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

Cover of The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2) by Brandon Sanderson

12. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.77

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, wher… read more

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  • adventure
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Horses were less the thundering creatures Of pounding hoof beats and unparalleled speed found in movies and more like golf carts that ran on a tank of grass and occasionally bit you."

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

"A little pebble starts as an avalanche," I said. "Life isn't like the craps table, where the next roll has the same chance of winning as the last one. In real life, you lose a little - and that makes…"

-Brandon Sanderson, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projets #2)

Cover of Defiant (Skyward, #4) by Brandon Sanderson

13. Defiant (Skyward, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.34

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic ser… read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The raging river is never kind to the lone leaf."

-Brandon Sanderson, Defiant (Skyward, #4)

"The love of the oppressed found the souls of the broken, and the result was light."

-Brandon Sanderson, Defiant (Skyward, #4)

"Empathy for an enemy's pain was good, but you couldn't let that lead you into the fallacy of accepting their actions."

-Brandon Sanderson, Defiant (Skyward, #4)

"Rig,' I declared to him, 'I need science.' 'You need therapy.' 'You need better jokes.' 'You need a better sense of humor."

-Brandon Sanderson, Defiant (Skyward, #4)

Cover of Ascendant (Songs of Chaos, #1) by Michael R.  Miller

14. Ascendant (Songs of Chaos, #1)

By: Michael R. Miller

4.35

Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition

"Everything dragon lovers crave in a fantasy adventure, and more. Holt and Ash are now two of my fa… read more

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  • dragons
  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If you love with your eyes, death is forever. If you love with your heart, there is no such thing as parting."

-Michael R. Miller, Ascendant (Songs of Chaos, #1)

Cover of The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6) by Rick Riordan

15. The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)

By: Rick Riordan

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Percy Jackson, modern-day son of Poseidon, is just trying to get through high school. After saving … read more

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  • adventure
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
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"Nostalgia is the doorway back to youth."

-Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)

"That stuff freaks me out," I said. "It looks like radioactive honey." "No, it's not radioactive, honey."

-Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)

"Then I said what I was pretty sure would go down in history as the dumbest last words ever: 'I love you, bro."

-Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)

"I am a guy of limited talents. If I can't kill it with water, a sword, or sarcasm, I am basically defenseless."

-Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)

Cover of Unbound (Songs of Chaos, #2) by Michael R.  Miller

16. Unbound (Songs of Chaos, #2)

By: Michael R. Miller

4.48

Format: 686 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the world needs a little chaos. Holt and Ash saved the kingdom of Feorlen against all … read more

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  • dragons
  • adventure
  • magic
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Dragon Rider (The Soulbound Saga, #1) by Taran Matharu

17. Dragon Rider (The Soulbound Saga, #1)

By: Taran Matharu

3.90

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Author Taran Matharu’s debut adult fantasy series introduces a world of magic, warriors, and dragon… read more

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  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3) by Michael R.  Miller

18. Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)

By: Michael R. Miller

4.57

Format: 897 pages, Kindle Edition

The great powers are stirring, and Holt and Ash are ready to return to the fight. A summons from… read more

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"Adaskar fell to his knees, He couldn't speak. Half-crawling, he managed to reach Azarin's snout and pulled himself up enough so his dragon could see him. 'You can fight it.' 'We cannot defeat...death…"

-Michael R. Miller, Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)

"His dragon's ability to let go of her hatred only impressed upon him again that he didn't deserve her. 'I'll take you anyways,' she had said. 'Why?' he croaked aloud. 'After all I did, why take me?' …"

-Michael R. Miller, Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)

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