8 Best high fantasy books like Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

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…

"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"They supposedly had golden hair, like yours, the color of sunlight."

-Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

"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

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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

1. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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

2. 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

Similar categories in Pierce Brown's Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6) by Patrick Rothfuss

3. 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

Similar categories in Patrick Rothfuss's The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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 Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

4. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

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

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

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5. The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

By: James Islington

4.63

Format: 639 pages, Kindle Edition

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secret… read more

Similar categories in James Islington's The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Death is only meaningless if it does not change us, Vis."

-James Islington, The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

"I am curious about no small number of things, but it's not fair to sate my curiosity at the expense of her pain."

-James Islington, The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

"And this is the risk of our world, Diago. The flaw of our system is in its head. In us. The qualities of a king change the kingdom. And not one of us is perfect enough to have a right to lead ... I w…"

-James Islington, The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

Cover of The Sword of Kaigen by M.L.  Wang

6. The Sword of Kaigen

By: M.L. Wang

4.47

Format: 651 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A … read more

Similar categories in M.L. Wang's The Sword of Kaigen book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The enemy is a tornado. What are you going to do?' 'Kill it."

-M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

"Flayed and boneless, he faced the creature he had awakened, this woman of god’s blood and fury."

-M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

"I’ve never needed a sword to protect you—to raise you the way your father wanted. Caring for my family meant putting away the fighter, so I did."

-M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

"This... you are my story... and I was so selfish, so tied to that shadow that I missed it. And my son, I— I’m so sorry it took me this long to understand. I’m sorry—"

-M.L. Wang, The Sword of Kaigen

Cover of Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

7. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • pirates
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • 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 One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) by Rachel Gillig

8. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

Cover of Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) by Rachel Gillig

9. Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.44

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) by Rebecca   Ross

10. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.20

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived. -Thea Attwood"

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

Cover of Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2) by Rebecca   Ross

11. Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

By: Rebecca Ross

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic and beautifully written story that started in Divine … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ross's Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows hiding like jewels."

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"You are capable of far more than you know. Why do you think I look at you now and marvel? Why do you think I draw close to your kind? I have sung many of you to eternal rest after death, and I have f…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

"In all my years I have discovered that the most precious of things are often taken for granted and that we tend to let time wheel forward at such a pace that we cannot catch every detail that makes t…"

-Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

Cover of Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) by Fonda Lee

12. Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

By: Fonda Lee

4.09

Format: 540 pages, Paperback

JADE CITY is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, ma… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Expectations are a funny thing,"

-Fonda Lee, Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

"¿Qué sentido tiene vivir para quien no puede confiar en sus hermanos?"

-Fonda Lee, Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

"True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience."

-Fonda Lee, Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

"And if you loved someone, truly loved them, shouldn't their happiness matter even more than your honor?"

-Fonda Lee, Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

13. 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

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

14. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"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)

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

16. 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

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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)

Cover of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

17. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) by Travis Baldree

18. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)

By: Travis Baldree

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battl… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • romance
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark  Lawrence

19. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By: Mark Lawrence

None

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn’t Burn book and Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

20. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • pirates
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Pierce Brown

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None

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Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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