Books like “The Warded Man”

What to read after “The Warded Man” by Peter V. Brett: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin · 2010
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
- Epic Fantasy
Yeine Darr is summoned from her northern homeland to the city of Sky, where she is named an heir to the Arameri throne after her mother's death. As she learns the rules of a court that keeps gods as servants, she finds that the contest for the succession is also a trap.
2
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson · 1999
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
The Malazan Empire is closing on the last free city of Genabackis, and armies, assassins and mages are converging for the siege. Beneath the politics of empire, old powers are waking and settling debts of their own, while ordinary soldiers and thieves are caught between them.
3
The Black Company
Glen Cook · 1984
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
The Black Company is a band of mercenaries who once served the light and now fight for one side in a war of dark powers. Croaker, the company's physician and annalist, records their grudging days, where the line between good and evil has blurred and surviving matters more than any truth.
4
A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin · 1996
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark”
- Grimdark
- Epic Fantasy
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.
5
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb · 1995
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
Fitz is the unacknowledged bastard son of a prince, raised in the shadows of the royal court. Trained secretly as an assassin and bonded to a wolf through the forbidden Wit, he must decide where his loyalty lies as the kingdom's politics turn treacherous.
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The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie · 2006
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
Logen Ninefingers only wants to be left alone, but his past will not release him. Elsewhere a spoiled nobleman, a crippled inquisitor who tortures for the state, and an old magician are drawn into a conspiracy that could decide the fate of the Union itself.
7
The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark 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.
8
Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
Nine-year-old Jorg watched raiders murder his mother and brother. By thirteen he leads a band of killers, and by fifteen he means to take his father's throne. Ruthless and brilliant, he treats cruelty as a tool and will pay any price for the crown he believes is his.
9
Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
- Grimdark
- Dark Fantasy
Mercedes Murcatto, a mercenary general, survives an ambush by the duke she served and loses her brother in the same fall. Assembling a crew of killers and madmen, she begins a patient campaign of revenge in which no method is too cruel and no ally is safe.
10
The Court of Broken Knives
Anna Smith Spark · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
In the dying empire of Sorlost, a ragged company of mercenaries is hired to kill the emperor. Among them is Marith, a young man hiding a noble name and a hunger for violence he cannot master. Their conspiracy drags the ancient city toward blood and fire.
11
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Dark Fantasy”
- Dark Fantasy
- Epic Fantasy
In the city of Tova a solar eclipse is coming, and with it an old prophecy of a god reborn. Xiala, a disgraced sea captain, is ordered to carry a strange young man to the city, while Serapio has been shaped since childhood for a ceremony he does not fully understand.
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Priest of Bones
Peter McLean · 2018
Similar atmosphere: “Grimdark” and “Dark Fantasy”
- Grimdark
- Dark Fantasy
Army priest and crime boss Tomas Piety returns from war to find his businesses stolen and his people starving. With his old gang, the Pious Men, he sets out to take back Ellinburg, and is pulled into a web of politics and foreign agents that turns his home into a new battlefield.