16 must-read fantasy books like The Binding by Bridget Collins

Cover of The Binding by Bridget Collins

The Binding

By: Bridget Collins

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen…

"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Binding by Bridget Collins , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

1. If We Were Villains

By: M.L. Rio

4.39

Format: 280 pages,

Enter the players. There were seven of us then, seven bright young things with wide precious future… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's If We Were Villains book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • fiction
  • lgbt

2. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

3. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

By: Natasha Pulley

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

Cover of The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

4. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Cover of Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1) by C.S. Pacat

5. Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.16

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great batt… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Kindness is never a mistake. Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"Kindness is never a mistake," said the Elder Steward. "Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"I’m here to follow you.' His eyes were bright, his lips smiling, his hair gold in the shifting light from the fire. Will said, 'Of course you are."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

"When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise a…"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

Cover of Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) by C.S. Pacat

6. Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

By: C.S. Pacat

4.56

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Dark Rise, Will and his allies have… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Pacat's Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It’s all very well caring about sheep when you killed six of my men,"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"Light is not something you can extinguish," she said. "Even in the darkest night, there is a star."

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

"So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

-C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

Cover of A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) by Freya Marske

7. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

8. 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 Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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 The Familiars by Stacey Halls

9. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Familiars book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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

10. 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 Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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

11. 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 Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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 Babel by R.F. Kuang

12. Babel

By: R.F. Kuang

4.18

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Babel book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

Cover of A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) by Alexandra Rowland

13. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

14. The Doll Factory

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Doll Factory book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"

-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

Cover of The Foundling by Stacey Halls

15. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Foundling book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

Cover of The Binding by Bridget Collins

16. The Binding

By: Bridget Collins

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Binding book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • queer
"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

Cover of The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3) by Olivie Blake

17. The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

By: Olivie Blake

2.90

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Is this actually possible?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"It means the archives are “alive"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I will spend my life orbiting your,"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

"I'm constantly at risk for peril. Ask anyone!"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex (The Atlas, #3)

Cover of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

18. The Starless Sea

By: Erin Morgenstern

3.85

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secr… read more

Similar categories in Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • books about books
  • queer
"Fate still owes me a dance."

-Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

"Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate."

-Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

"It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate."

-Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

"You wish to sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air"

-Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

Cover of A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske

19. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

By: Freya Marske

3.96

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

Cover of The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) by Olivie Blake

20. The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

By: Olivie Blake

3.59

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity,… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don't let me wake up alone."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"He finds the monsters we keep locked away and sets them loose, so why would I ever want him to see mine?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"A flaw of humanity: the compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

Cover of Holt ​szemek és színarany by Gabriella Eld

21. Holt ​szemek és színarany

By: Gabriella Eld

4.37

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

Tíz ​esztendeje már, hogy az a sötét árnyék odaköltözött Sutan Levkowsky szeme sarkába. Levkowsk… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Eld's Holt ​szemek és színarany book and Bridget Collins's The Binding

18 best-selling fiction books like The Binding by Bridget Collins

Transform Your Habits

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Three Witches and The Master

Max Nowaz

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)

C.S. Pacat

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

C.S. Pacat

4.56

View all the books

16 Best audiobook books like Babel by R.F. Kuang

Transform Your Habits

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

James Islington

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Sword of Kaigen

M.L. Wang

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

Fonda Lee

4.09

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.