14 must-read fantasy books like The Unbeheaded King (The Reluctant King #3) by L. Sprague de Camp

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The Unbeheaded King (The Reluctant King #3)

By: L. Sprague de Camp

3.71

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Three years earlier, Jorian had been crowned King of Xylar. But the laws of Xylar decreed that each…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Unbeheaded King (The Reluctant King #3) by L. Sprague de Camp , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

1. Jirel of Joiry

By: C.L. Moore

3.72

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

C. L. Moore created Jirel, ruler of Joiry, in reaction to the beefy total-testosterone blood-and-th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3) by George R.R. Martin

2. The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.24

Format: 104 pages, ebook

The Mystery Knight is a novella published in 2010 as part of the Warriors anthology, edited by Geor… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"One-and-twenty sorts of birds,"

-George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3)

"Wine makes all things possible."

-George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3)

"Kings rise and fall, Dunk thought, and cows and smallfolk go about their business."

-George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #3)

Cover of Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6) by Fritz Leiber

3. Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

By: Fritz Leiber

3.95

Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: · The Sadness of the Executioner · ss Flashing Swords! #1, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1973 … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"For the gods have very sharp ears for boasts, or for declarations of happiness and self-satisfaction, or for assertions of a firm intention to do this or that, or for statements that this or that mus…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

"Yes, he knew that the god Loki had come out of the flames and possessed him for a while (as Fafhrd had perhaps once been possessed by the god Issek back in Lankhmar) and spoken through his lips the s…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

"That was another trouble with women, they were never there when you wanted or really needed them. They helped each other, all right, but they expected men to do all sorts of impossible feats of derri…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

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4. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

Cover of Small Gods (Discworld, #13) by Terry Pratchett

5. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

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6. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Drop dead-but first get permit"

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."

-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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7. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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  • fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

Cover of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) by Peter S. Beagle

8. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

By: Peter S. Beagle

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I love whom I love."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

Cover of The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen        King, Jae Lee

9. The Wind Through the Keyhole

By: Stephen King , Jae Lee

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Towe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

10. Flask of the Drunken Master (Shinobi Mystery, #3)

By: Susan Spann

3.94

Format: None pages,

Master ninja Hiro Hattori and his companion Father Mateo are once again pulled into a murder invest… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Thousand Pieces of Gold

By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoy's fa… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Dolores Claiborne

By: Stephen King

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Pyramids (Discworld, #7) by Terry Pratchett

13. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.92

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

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14. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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15. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

16. Joyland

By: Stephen King

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his … read more

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17. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more

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18. The Knight and Knave of Swords (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #7)

By: Fritz Leiber

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Ramsey Campbell, the highly regarded British horror author, called him: "the greatest living writer… read more

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19. The Swords of Lankhmar (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #5)

By: Fritz Leiber

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One of them was a huge, brawny, full-bearded barbarian from the northlands of Nehwon. His name was … read more

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20. Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)

By: Mercedes Lackey

3.46

Format: None pages,

A KINGDOM IMPERILED! Chosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond … read more

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21. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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22. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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23. Kull: Exile of Atlantis

By: Robert E. Howard , Patrice Louinet , Justin Sweet

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks." -Stephen Ki… read more

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24. Four Past Midnight

By: Stephen King

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You are strapped in an airline seat on a flight beyond hell. You are forced into a hunt for the mos… read more

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25. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

26. The Halfling's Gem (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #3; Legend of Drizzt, #6)

By: R.A. Salvatore

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Regis has fallen into the hands of the assassin Artmis Entreri, who is taking him to Calimport to d… read more

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27. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

28. The End of the Story

By: Clark Ashton Smith , Scott Connors , Ron Hilger

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not onl… read more

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29. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more

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30. The Unbeheaded King (The Reluctant King #3)

By: L. Sprague de Camp

3.71

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Three years earlier, Jorian had been crowned King of Xylar. But the laws of Xylar decreed that each… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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