Books like “Throne of Glass”

What to read after “Throne of Glass” by Sarah J. Maas: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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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An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Love Triangle”
- Tournament
- Love Triangle
Under the Martial Empire, Laia's brother is arrested as a traitor, so she goes undercover as a slave in a brutal military academy to spy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a reluctant soldier whose future is bound to the regime she works against.
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The Selection
Kiera Cass · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Tournament
- Love Triangle
In a future kingdom divided into castes, thirty-five girls are chosen to compete for the crown. America Singer enters only for the money, torn between a secret love back home and the young prince she is slowly getting to know.
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Caraval
Stephanie Garber · 2017
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Scarlett has dreamed of Caraval, a magical game held once a year, as a way to escape her island home. When her sister is taken by the game's master, Scarlett must enter the show to find her, where nothing is real and the price of losing is high.
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Jhereg
Steven Brust · 1983
Similar plot moves: “Assassin Protagonist” and “Morally Grey Character”
- Assassin Protagonist
- Morally Grey Character
Vlad Taltos is an assassin who has risen to run a piece of the Jhereg, the empire's crime syndicate. Hired to kill Mellar, a Jhereg boss who has embezzled a fortune, Vlad finds him sheltering as the guest of the Dragonlord Morrolan, whose code of hospitality forbids any harm to come to him—and the Jhereg insist the hit be done before Mellar leaves.
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To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Slow Burn”
Lira is a siren who takes the heart of a prince each year. When she is punished and turned human, the only way back is to deliver the heart of Prince Elian, a siren hunter who has no idea who she really is. Their journey across the sea turns enemies into something neither of them planned.
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The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller · 2020
Shared in the plot: anything, court
- Slow Burn
- Morally Grey Character
Alessandra will do anything to gain power, including marry the young king and then kill him. The Shadow King, feared and rumoured to have killed his own family, is the perfect target. But court intrigue and unexpected feelings complicate her cold plan, and someone is hunting them both.
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The Cruel Prince
Holly Black · 2018
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
- Slow Burn
- Morally Grey Character
Jude was born mortal but was raised in the High Court of Faerie after her parents were killed. Mocked by the fae and drawn to the cruel prince Cardan, she schemes her way into the court's politics, trading secrets and taking dangerous risks to win a place among those who despise her.
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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Young adult fiction”
- Forced Proximity
On her sixteenth birthday Meghan learns that her little brother has been swapped for a changeling and that the fey are real. To get him back she enters the Nevernever, a dangerous world divided between Summer and Winter courts, where she is drawn to a prince she was raised to fear.
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The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Love Triangle
- Forced Proximity
Avery Grambs, a sharp high-schooler sleeping in her car, learns that a billionaire she never met has left her almost his entire fortune. To claim it she must move into the family mansion, where four disinherited grandsons and a house full of puzzles await.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy” and “Epic fantasy”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
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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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
- Forced Proximity
- Slow Burn
Poppy was born the Maiden, chosen and set apart, forbidden from friends, love or any life of her own. When a new guard, Hawke, enters her world, duty and desire collide for the first time. As attacks close in on the kingdom, she begins to doubt everything she was taught about the gods and her own fate.