17 must-read fantasy books like Witch King by Martha Wells

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Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth…

"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

If you liked the fantasy plot in Witch King by Martha Wells , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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2. 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

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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3. 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 Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • 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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4. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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5. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

6. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Witch King by Martha Wells

7. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

8. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) by T. Kingfisher

9. 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 Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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10. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

11. 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 Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The Water Outlaws book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

13. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

Similar categories in Samit Basu's The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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 Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of Rose/House by Arkady Martine

16. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Martha Wells's Witch King

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

17. 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 Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk

18. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction

19. Seeds of Mercury (English edition)

By: 晋康著 王

2.84

Format: 31 pages, None

素有善心的商人陈义哲,突然获得了一位陌生人沙午女士的遗产。沙午创造了一种能在液态金属中生存的硅锡钠微生命,但她去世时已经无力维持这个生命圈的运转。她请陈把这些生命放生到最合适的地方——水星。亿万富翁… read more

Similar categories in 晋康著 王's Seeds of Mercury (English edition) book and Martha Wells's Witch King

  • science fiction
Cover of Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition by Gu Shi

20. Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition

By: Gu Shi

3.47

Format: 25 pages, ebook

2024 Hugo Voter Packet version. read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
Cover of Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times by Baoshu

21. Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times

By: Baoshu

3.83

Format: None pages, None

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  • science fiction

18 must-read fiction books like Witch King by Martha Wells

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The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Transform Your Habits

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

S.A. Chakraborty

4.03

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

3.90

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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