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Books like The Way of Kings
The best books like The Way of Kings are Mistborn: The Final Empire, A Game of Thrones, and The Eye of the World. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is about duty and sacrifice, mental health and survival, ancient knowledge and lost history. 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.
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
Mistborn: The Final Empire opens with a premise that inverts a thousand years of genre convention: the Dark Lord won.
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 → - 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 → - 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.
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.
Read the summary → - An Ember in the Ashes
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Sabaa Tahir · Fantasy
An Ember in the Ashes is set in a Roman Empire-inspired world where the Martial empire has conquered and brutalized the Scholar people for centuries.
A kindred fantasy read.
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Books like The Way of Kings: quick answers
What are the best books like The Way of Kings?
The best books like The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson are Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Way of Kings, such as duty and sacrifice, mental health and survival, ancient knowledge and lost history.
What should I read after The Way of Kings?
A natural next read after The Way of Kings is Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. A kindred fantasy read. Other strong choices are A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.
What books are similar to The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson?
The Way of Kings centers on duty and sacrifice, mental health and survival, ancient knowledge and lost history. Books with a similar feel include Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
