Books like “Kings of the Wyld”

What to read after “Kings of the Wyld” by Nicholas Eames: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty · 2017
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
Nahri has survived in eighteenth-century Cairo by faking healings and stealing what she can. A careless summoning calls a djinn warrior to her side and drags her to Daevabad, a city of magic and old feuds, where her true blood makes her a threat to everyone around her.
2
Blood Song
Anthony Ryan · 2011
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Found Family
Vaelin Al Sorna is given to the Sixth Order as a boy and raised among warriors who serve the Faith. His strange gift, the blood-song that lets him hear the dead, marks him for a harder path, and his training ends in a war that will decide the future of an empire.
3
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Patricia A. McKillip · 1976
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
Morgon, prince of the island of Hed, won a riddle contest against a ghost and now wears three stars on his forehead. When shape-shifters attack and the High One's realm begins to stir, he leaves his farm behind to seek answers about the fate that binds him to a land he has never seen.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1954
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Frodo inherits a golden ring that is far more than it seems, and learns it is the master ring of the enemy Sauron. With a company of dwarves, elves, men and a hobbit gardener, he sets out to carry it to the only place where it can be destroyed.
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The Sword of Shannara
Terry Brooks · 1977
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
Shea Ohmsford lives a quiet life in the Shady Vale until the druid Allanon arrives with a warning: the Warlock Lord has returned, and only a descendant of the Shannara line can stop him. Shea sets out with a small band of companions to find the Sword of Shannara, the one weapon said to be able to destroy the Warlock Lord, before the Northland armies reach the Southland.
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The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington · 2014
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
Davian is an Augur, born with powers forbidden since the old war. When the laws of the Venerate turn against him, he flees with his friends in search of the man who might explain why the Augurs fell. What he finds tests everything he was taught to believe.
7
Malice
John Gwynne · 2012
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Quest
The Banished Lands have known peace for years, but old rivalries are waking. Corban, son of a village lord, dreams of becoming a warrior; far away, a princess and a giant's son are caught up in the schemes of kings. A prophecy of the Bright Star and the Black Sun begins to unfold.
8
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1937
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
Bilbo Baggins likes his quiet, well-stocked hole. Then the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves arrive and sweep him off on a journey to reclaim a treasure from the dragon Smaug, and he finds a courage and a ring he never expected.
9
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri · 2021
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
Priya has spent years hiding her power in a temple, tending the gardens that hold the prisoner princess Malini, who is held by her own brother the emperor. When the empire's plans threaten them both, the two women must choose between safety and an uprising that could remake Parijatdvipa.
10
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Found Family
On a storm-scoured world, a slave carries ancient honours, a scholar chases forbidden knowledge and a soldier guards a war that never ends. Their paths bend toward a returning danger few believe is real.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
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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The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne · 2021
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
After the gods fell, their monstrous children and the warlike humans left behind inherited a harsh land. A thrall seeking freedom, a huntress avenging her family and a noblewoman with a company of mercenaries are drawn into a new age of blood and gods.