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Books like Mistborn: The Final Empire
The best books like Mistborn: The Final Empire are A Game of Thrones, The Way of Kings, and The Eye of the World. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson is about revolution and oppression, hope in a hopeless world, identity and power. 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 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 → - The Way of Kings
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Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
The Way of Kings is the first volume of The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson's most ambitious project: a ten-book epic set in Roshar, a world of continent-wide storms, symbiotic armor, and an ancient catastrophe that everyone has forgotten.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Eye of the World
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Robert Jordan · Fantasy
The Eye of the World is the opening volume of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, a fourteen-book series that spent more than two decades reshaping the commercial landscape of epic fantasy.
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.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - The Atlas Six
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Olivie Blake · Fantasy
Six of the world's most powerful young magicians are recruited by the Alexandrian Society, a secret organization that has preserved forbidden knowledge since antiquity.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - The Lies of Locke Lamora
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Scott Lynch · Fantasy
The Lies of Locke Lamora is set in Camorr, a fantastical city modeled roughly on Renaissance Venice, complete with canals, noble families, crime lords, and a complex social order that the protagonist has spent his life learning to exploit.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
Roger Ackroyd, a wealthy widower in the English village of King's Abbot, is found stabbed in his study the evening after confiding to a friend that a blackmailer has driven his new fiancée to suicide.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - 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 → - A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
Feyre Archeron is nineteen, hunting in winter to feed her family, when she kills a wolf in the forest and is taken by a creature from Prythian — the land of the fae — as payment for a life.
A kindred fantasy read.
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 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 Mistborn: The Final Empire: quick answers
What are the best books like Mistborn: The Final Empire?
The best books like Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson are A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Mistborn: The Final Empire, such as revolution and oppression, hope in a hopeless world, identity and power.
What should I read after Mistborn: The Final Empire?
A natural next read after Mistborn: The Final Empire is A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.
What books are similar to Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson?
Mistborn: The Final Empire centers on revolution and oppression, hope in a hopeless world, identity and power. Books with a similar feel include A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
