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What to read after “Iron Flame” 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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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Magic Academy
Violet Sorrengail expected a quiet life among books, not the deadly rider quadrant where cadets die and dragons choose their own riders. Thin and untrained, she survives on wit alone. Her greatest threat is Xaden Riorson, a ruthless wing leader whose attention she never wanted.
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The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
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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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Dragons”
- 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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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Found Family
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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Red Sister
Mark Lawrence · 2017
Same genre: “Fantasy”
Sold and condemned, the girl Nona Grey is saved from the gallows by the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where young women are trained as warriors and killers. Between lessons in blade and poison she makes friends and enemies and a promise, while the past that marked her comes looking.
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The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Morally Grey Character
The Omehi have fought an unwinnable war for generations, where a rare few can call dragons or transform into killing giants. Giftless Tau plans to escape, until betrayal murders those he loves. To avenge them he trains to become the greatest swordsman alive, whatever it costs.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
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 Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
Similar setting: “Magic Academy”
- Magic Academy
Kvothe, once a renowned magician and musician, tells a scribe the truth behind his own reputation. His story moves from a travelling troupe to a brutal city and the magic school where he learned far too much.
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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.
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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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A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin · 1996
From the same world: “Dragons”
As a long summer holds, the great houses of Westeros scheme for the Iron Throne. When the king asks Lord Eddard Stark of the North to serve as his Hand, Ned travels south with his family into a web of secrets where loyalty costs lives, while beyond the Wall an older threat stirs.
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Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim · 2021
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
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.