14 best-selling fiction books like Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e…

"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

If you liked the fiction plot in Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
"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)

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2. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

By: Ken Follett , Rosalía Vázquez

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bes… read more

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  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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5. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

6. Musashi

By: Eiji Yoshikawa , Edwin O. Reischauer , None

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Musashi is a novel … read more

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7. Confederates

By: Thomas Keneally

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Unknown Binding

Thomas Keneally's epic of the Civil War takes us into the lives of four remarkable characters in th… read more

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8. Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu

By: Stephen Turnbull , A.L. Sadler

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

One of the most successful rulers in Japanese history and one of the most cunning military strategi… read more

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9. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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10. Dune (Dune, #1)

By: Frank Herbert

4.27

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble famil… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hope clouds observation."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Fear is the mind-killer."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,"

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Humans are almost always lonely."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

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11. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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12. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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13. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

15. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more

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  • classics
  • adventure
  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • japan
  • audiobook
"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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16. The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)

By: Richard Swan

4.11

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The third novel in an epic fantasy trilogy, which follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Empero… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6) by Christopher Ruocchio

17. Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.62

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your road will not be easy, nor your burden light." "That does not matter," I said. "It must be."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

"I was nothing at all. The barest drop in a limitless ocean. One photon against the infinite Dark."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

"You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)

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18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • adventure
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

19. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams by Frederik Cryns

20. In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams

By: Frederik Cryns

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ie… read more

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  • japan

7 must-read novels books like Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell

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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

4.00

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

4.16

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Mark Lawrence

4.10

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James Islington

4.63

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James Logan

4.02

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Richard Swan

4.11

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