Books like “The Last Namsara”

What to read after “The Last Namsara” by Kristen Ciccarelli: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Young adult fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
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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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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Slow Burn
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 Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
- Outcast Hero
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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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
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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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 Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
From the same world: “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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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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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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The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Same genre: “Fantasy” and “Romantic fantasy”
Évike is the only woman in her pagan village with no magic, and her people treat her as an outcast. When the kingdom's holy warriors demand a sacrifice, she is handed to their one-eyed captain, a monster-hunter her village hates. To survive the winter forest, the two must rely on each other despite everything between them.
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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
Isobel paints portraits for the fae, whose kind cannot create art themselves. When she paints mortal sorrow into the face of the autumn prince, she commits a crime that could cost her life. He carries her to his court for judgment, and their mutual distrust slowly turns into something forbidden.
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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.