14 Top dark fantasy books like The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1) by Steven Erikson

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The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

By: Steven Erikson

4.62

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Many years have passed since three Teblor warriors brought carnage and chaos to the small lakeside …

"Exactly. Peace of mind."

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

"It wouldn’t be happiness then, happiness wasn’t kind anyway, the way it could vanish in an instant. He might not miss it at all."

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

"Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into beliefs, mindless as serpents devouring their own tail."

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

If you liked the dark fantasy plot in The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1) by Steven Erikson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

By: Glen Cook

3.93

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some f… read more

Similar categories in Glen Cook's The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1) book and Steven Erikson's The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?"

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

Cover of Return of the Crimson Guard (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #2) by Ian C. Esslemont

2. Return of the Crimson Guard (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #2)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.04

Format: 702 pages, Hardcover

The returning mercenary Crimson Guard are sworn to oppose the Empire. Some elite Avowed scheme to o… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
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  • audiobook
"Only the dead should be certain of anything."

-Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #2)

"Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose."

-Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #2)

"When one considers such ancient times one's only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appear…"

-Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #2)

Cover of Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4) by Ian C. Esslemont

3. Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.17

Format: 605 pages, Hardcover

The epic new chapter in the history of Malaz -- the new epic fantasy from Steven Erikson's friend a… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?"

-Ian C. Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)

"Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake And behold there the constellations Of both hemispheres at once? -Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes"

-Ian C. Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)

"Kruppe wonders now, in the presentsight, as it were – or is it is? – what pedestrian activities or seemingly innocuous events will, in the hindsight of the future, be seen to be foreshadowings of the…"

-Ian C. Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)

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4. Assail (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #6)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

This followup to Ian C. Esslemont's Blood and Boneis sure to delight Malazan fans. Tens of thousand… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
Cover of The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) by R. Scott Bakker

5. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
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6. The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

By: R. Scott Bakker

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

"Book Two of The Prince of Nothing" finds the Holy War continuing its inexorable march southward. B… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

7. Dancer's Lament (Path to Ascendancy, #1)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Taking Malazan fans back to that troubled continent's turbulent early history. The opening chapter … read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3) by R. Scott Bakker

8. The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.43

Format: None pages,

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Judging Eye (Aspect-Emperor, #1) by R. Scott Bakker

9. The Judging Eye (Aspect-Emperor, #1)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

10. Deadhouse Landing (Path to Ascendancy, #2)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.01

Format: None pages,

After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island … read more

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11. Stonewielder (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #3)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking addition to the history of Malaz -- the new epic fantasy from the co-creator of this… read more

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12. Night of Knives (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #1)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The empire is named for the tiny island and city of Malaz, now a sleepy, seedy backwater port. Toni… read more

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13. Blood and Bone (Novels of the Malazan Empire #5)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the western sky the bright emerald banner of the Visitor descends like a portent of annihilation… read more

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14. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • 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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15. Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater, #4)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.47

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

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

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  • epic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Forge of the High Mage (Path to Ascendancy, #4) by Ian C. Esslemont

16. Forge of the High Mage (Path to Ascendancy, #4)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.35

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

After decades of warfare, Malazan forces are now close to consolidating the Quon Talian mainland. Y… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Ashes of Man (Sun Eater, #5)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.54

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1) by Steven Erikson

18. The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

By: Steven Erikson

4.62

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Many years have passed since three Teblor warriors brought carnage and chaos to the small lakeside … read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Exactly. Peace of mind."

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

"It wouldn’t be happiness then, happiness wasn’t kind anyway, the way it could vanish in an instant. He might not miss it at all."

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

"Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into bel…"

-Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

Cover of The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3) by Joe Abercrombie

19. The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.60

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us... Some say that to change the world yo… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...how's your leg?"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"Absolutes are never to be trusted."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"...if enough people got angry enough, they could change things. Now anger was the answer to everything."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

Cover of Kellanved's Reach (Path to Ascendancy, #3) by Ian C. Esslemont

20. Kellanved's Reach (Path to Ascendancy, #3)

By: Ian C. Esslemont

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

The conclusion to Ian C. Esslemont's Path to Ascendancy trilogy--a prequel story set in the Malazan… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • epic
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A War to End All (Manifest Delusions, #3) by Michael R. Fletcher

21. A War to End All (Manifest Delusions, #3)

By: Michael R. Fletcher

3.97

Format: 535 pages, Kindle Edition

Sanity, true cleanliness, and order; Such things only exist after all else has been burned away. read more

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  • dark fantasy
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Glen Cook

3.93

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Ian C. Esslemont

4.04

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Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)

Ian C. Esslemont

4.17

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Assail (Novels of the Malazan Empire, #6)

Ian C. Esslemont

4.34

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Steven Erikson

4.37

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Fall of Light (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #2)

Steven Erikson

4.00

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The Wurms of Blearmouth (The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, #5)

Steven Erikson

4.20

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