13 must-read magic books like Whispering Wood by Sharon Shinn

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Whispering Wood

By: Sharon Shinn

4.13

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited new book in the Elemental Blessings series! Valentina Serlast has reluctantly …

If you liked the magic plot in Whispering Wood by Sharon Shinn , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she's determined to stay on the straight and … read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

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2. 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 Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
"(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)

Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

3. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
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4. Whispering Wood

By: Sharon Shinn

4.13

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited new book in the Elemental Blessings series! Valentina Serlast has reluctantly … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • new adult
Cover of Rift in the Soul (Soulwood, #6) by Faith Hunter

5. Rift in the Soul (Soulwood, #6)

By: Faith Hunter

4.62

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Nell Ingram and her team face a dire, supernatural evil in this newest thrilling paranormal procedu… read more

Similar categories in Faith Hunter's Rift in the Soul (Soulwood, #6) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • magic
  • fantasy
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6. Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

By: Mercedes Lackey

4.44

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited story of the founding of Valdemar comes to life in this 3rd book of a trilogy from… read more

Similar categories in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
"....knowing that losing a beloved pet was just as hard as losing a member of your family. Maybe harder, because everything with a pet was wordless. You never really knew if they understood what you m…"

-Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

"We care deeply for the creatures that depend on us, expecting nothing, really, and getting so very much from them. Loving them takes courage, because love requires daring. Daring to risk the pain of …"

-Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar (The Founding of Valdemar #3)

Cover of Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) by Lois McMaster Bujold

7. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
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8. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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9. The Lady in Glass and Other Stories

By: Anne Bishop

4.11

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

A magical collection of stories new and old spanning across all of Anne Bishop’s most beloved fanta… read more

Similar categories in Anne Bishop's The Lady in Glass and Other Stories book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • magic
  • fantasy
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10. The Dark Lord's Daughter

By: Patricia C. Wrede

3.98

Format: 368 pages, None

Kayla is just an ordinary girl . . . or so she thinks. When a day at the state fair is interrupted … read more

Similar categories in Patricia C. Wrede's The Dark Lord's Daughter book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) by Patricia Briggs

11. Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Briggs's Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy
"Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

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12. Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid, #13)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Seanan McGuire's New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid serie… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid, #13) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Only Hard Problems (Galactic Bonds, #3) by Jennifer Estep

13. Only Hard Problems (Galactic Bonds, #3)

By: Jennifer Estep

3.83

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Estep continues her Galactic Bonds series with a new, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Estep's Only Hard Problems (Galactic Bonds, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy
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14. 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 Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Ribbon Dance (Liaden Universe, #26) by Sharon Lee

15. Ribbon Dance (Liaden Universe, #26)

By: Sharon Lee

4.65

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES On a world where cake is a necessity, it t… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Lee's Ribbon Dance (Liaden Universe, #26) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • fantasy
Cover of Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1) by Christina Baehr

16. Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)

By: Christina Baehr

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander … read more

Similar categories in Christina Baehr's Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • fantasy
Cover of Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5) by Michelle Sagara

17. Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5)

By: Michelle Sagara

4.32

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuri… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Sagara's Shards of Glass (Lessons of the Academia, #1; Chronicles of Elantra, #17.5) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of Anything With Nothing (Tales of Valdemar #17) by Mercedes Lackey

18. Anything With Nothing (Tales of Valdemar #17)

By: Mercedes Lackey

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This 17th anthology of short stories set in the beloved Valdemar high fantasy universe features tal… read more

Similar categories in Mercedes Lackey's Anything With Nothing (Tales of Valdemar #17) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Dome 6 (Tinkered Starsong, #3) by Gail Carriger

19. Dome 6 (Tinkered Starsong, #3)

By: Gail Carriger

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Saving the unwilling with song, one planet at a time. New York Times bestselling author Gail Car… read more

Similar categories in Gail Carriger's Dome 6 (Tinkered Starsong, #3) book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
"He thought if they were both pitchers pouring out love, they might pour it easily back and forth into each other so that neither ever ran dry. They could give more of themselves to the divinity if th…"

-Gail Carriger, Dome 6 (Tinkered Starsong, #3)

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20. Doors Into Change: Stories from Archers Beach

By: Sharon Lee

4.76

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

DOORS INTO CHANGE features two short stories and a novelette set in Sharon Lee's notable small town… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Lee's Doors Into Change: Stories from Archers Beach book and Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

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

21. 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 Sharon Shinn's Whispering Wood

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fantasy

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4.22

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Malka Ann Older

4.01

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Sharon Shinn

4.13

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Mercedes Lackey

4.44

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Kim Harrison

3.92

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4.62

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Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

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C.J. Cherryh

4.36

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