Fantasy · Similar reads
Books like A Court of Thorns and Roses
The best books like A Court of Thorns and Roses are A Court of Mist and Fury, Fourth Wing, and House of Earth and Blood. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is about freedom and captivity, sacrifice and love, power and vulnerability. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Fourth Wing
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Rebecca Yarros · Fantasy
Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribes Quadrant — small, physically fragile, the daughter of a general who knows the odds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - House of Earth and Blood
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Bryce Quinlan is half-fae, half-human, and fully invested in the nightlife of Crescent City — a contemporary urban fantasy setting where humans and magical creatures coexist under the governance of the Asteri, god-like beings of enormous and opaque power.
A kindred fantasy read.
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- Divine Rivals
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Rebecca Ross · Fantasy
Divine Rivals is set in a secondary world at war — not a war between nations but between gods, two ancient siblings who have woken after millennia and are using human armies as instruments of their conflict.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Silmarillion
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J.R.R. Tolkien · Fantasy
The Silmarillion is Tolkien's attempt to do for English literature what the Norse Eddas and Finnish Kalevala did for their cultures: create a complete mythology from scratch.
Both dig into light and darkness.
Read the summary → - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · Literary fiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins where Tom Sawyer left off — Huck Finn, the outcast son of the town drunk, has been taken in and given a respectable life he doesn't want.
Both dig into freedom and captivity.
Read the summary → - Stories of Your Life and Others
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · Short stories
Eight stories, all of them rigorously thought-out, many of them devastating.
Both dig into identity transformation.
Read the summary → - The Pelican Brief
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John Grisham · Thriller
Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated in a single night.
Both dig into power and vulnerability.
Read the summary → - A Darker Shade of Magic
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V.E. Schwab · Fantasy
A Darker Shade of Magic is set across four parallel versions of London — Red, Grey, White, and the long-destroyed Black — each existing in the same location but separated by the barriers between worlds.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Game of Thrones
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George R.R. Martin · Fantasy
A Game of Thrones is the first volume of George R.R.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Little Hatred
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Joe Abercrombie · Fantasy
A Little Hatred is the first book in Abercrombie's The Age of Madness trilogy, set in the same world as his First Law trilogy but a generation later.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like A Court of Thorns and Roses: quick answers
What are the best books like A Court of Thorns and Roses?
The best books like A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas are A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A Court of Thorns and Roses, such as freedom and captivity, sacrifice and love, power and vulnerability.
What should I read after A Court of Thorns and Roses?
A natural next read after A Court of Thorns and Roses is A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.
What books are similar to A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas?
A Court of Thorns and Roses centers on freedom and captivity, sacrifice and love, power and vulnerability. Books with a similar feel include A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
