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Books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The best books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms are A Darker Shade of Magic, The Goblin Emperor, and Uprooted. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin is about power and oppression, inheritance and legacy, gods and mortality. 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 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 → - The Goblin Emperor
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Katherine Addison · Fantasy
The Goblin Emperor begins with an accident: Maia, the half-goblin, half-elf youngest son of the Emperor — long exiled to a remote estate and treated as an embarrassment — learns that his father and three brothers have been killed in an airship crash.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Uprooted
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Naomi Novik · Fantasy
Uprooted is a standalone fantasy novel inspired by Polish folklore.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
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.
Both dig into inheritance and legacy.
Read the summary → - The Word for World Is Forest
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Science fiction
On the forested world of Athshe, small, green-furred humanoids called the Athsheans have lived in balance with their world for thousands of years, moving between waking life and dreaming with an ease that humans find incomprehensible.
Both dig into colonialism and resistance.
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 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 Wizard of Earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin · Fantasy
A Wizard of Earthsea is Ursula K.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle · Fantasy
A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a prickly, self-doubting teenager whose father — a physicist working on a classified government project — has been missing for years.
A kindred fantasy read.
Read the summary → - American Gods
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
American Gods opens with Shadow Moon, a man released from prison days early because his wife has died in a car accident.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: quick answers
What are the best books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms?
The best books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin are A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, such as power and oppression, inheritance and legacy, gods and mortality.
What should I read after The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms?
A natural next read after The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.
What books are similar to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin?
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms centers on power and oppression, inheritance and legacy, gods and mortality. Books with a similar feel include A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
