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What to read after “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Magic Academy
Violet has survived her first year at Basgiath War College, but the answers she sought only revealed a larger lie. As war closes in, she must decide whom to trust, including a man she loves and cannot fully believe, while the school hides truths even its riders are forbidden to know.
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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Dragons”
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
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The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Slow Burn
Asha is the Iskari, a dragon slayer raised by a harsh king to atone for the night her mother died. Feared by her own people, she takes comfort in forbidden old stories and in a kind slave named Torwin. When the dragons offer her another way, everything she was raised to believe starts to break apart.
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A Promise of Fire
Amanda Bouchet · 2016
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantasy”
Catalia works as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, hiding the power that once made her a pawn of the gods. Griffin, a warlord desperate to save his people, recognises her magic and carries her off to his kingdom. On the long road there, loathing turns into a bond neither of them wanted and neither can deny.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Slow Burn
In the East, the queen Sabran must keep the line of Berethnet alive to hold back the Nameless One. In the West, the mage Ead secretly guards her, and in the South a dragon rider's daughter grows up in hiding.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
After five years apart, old friends meet again at the Inn of the Last Home as war spreads across Krynn. A plain staff, a cleric without faith and rumours of dragons pull them into a quest to recover the Disks of Mishakal, the lost teachings of the true gods, and to stand against the Dragon Highlords.
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Eragon
Christopher Paolini · 2002
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the mountains, and it hatches into a dragon. Chosen as her rider, he is hunted by the king's servants and must leave his village to learn the ways of the Dragon Riders and join the rebels.
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The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon · 2023
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantasy”
- Forced Proximity
- Enemies to Lovers
Talasyn has known nothing but the Hurricane Wars: raised as an orphan in a nation under siege by the Night Empire, she hides her light magic and fights alongside its soldiers. Alaric is the empire's crown prince and her sworn enemy on the battlefield. When a greater threat and a royal marriage alliance force them together, the two must work side by side, and their powers answer to each other in ways no one can explain.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Enemies to Lovers”
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
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Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim · 2021
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Slow Burn
Princess Shiori would rather sneak out than learn magic, until a stepmother's spell turns her six brothers into cranes and steals her voice. Silent and alone, she must travel a dangerous empire to break the curse, aided by a boy with secrets of his own.
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Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey · 1968
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Lessa hides as a drudge in the hold that was stolen from her family, waiting for a chance to reclaim it. When dragonriders visit, she impresses the golden queen Ramoth and becomes a weyrwoman. With deadly Thread falling from the sky, she and the rider F'lar must find a way to save their world.