10 Best high fantasy books like Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Cover of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

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…

"I am the one that nightmares fear"

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

"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

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

-Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

If you liked the high fantasy plot in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie

1. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.21

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he… read more

Similar categories in Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Fucking pinks!"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"I’ve fought in three campaigns,"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"Body found floating by the docks..."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #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 Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science 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

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

Similar categories in Pierce Brown's Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3) book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

4. The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)

By: James Islington

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs - once thought of almost … read more

Similar categories in James Islington's The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1) book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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

5. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • magic
  • epic 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 System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

6. 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 Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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

7. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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

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

Cover of The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) by Mark  Lawrence

8. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lawrence's The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) by James  Islington

9. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science 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

10. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

11. 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

Similar categories in Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • romance
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • young adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • 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 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science 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 Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

13. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • romance
  • magic
  • 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

14. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L.  Wang

15. Blood Over Bright Haven

By: M.L. Wang

4.46

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Wang's Blood Over Bright Haven book and Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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

16. 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 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy

17 Best fiction books like Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Joe Abercrombie

4.21

None

Pierce Brown

None

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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

Pierce Brown

4.27

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Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown

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21 must-read fiction books like The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

3.90

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

James Islington

4.63

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Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson

4.40

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