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27 fantasy books to read after The Lost Metal, by Sanderson, Brandon, the closest match first.

  1. Mistborn

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    1. Mistborn

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Though Sanderson's main criticism is a lack of character depth, it's hard to deny the satisfying coming of age stories in Mistborn. The novel describes a classic rags-to-riches story, Vin...

  2. Mistborn

    Mistborn book 1 Start here

    2. Mistborn

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    A magnificent series of adventure, magic, and revenge with one of the most unique magic systems in the fantasy genre. Mistborn is the story of a band of wizards fighting...

  3. Well Of Ascension

    Mistborn book 2

    3. Well Of Ascension

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years -- has been vanquished....

  4. The Hero Of Ages

    Mistborn book 3

    4. The Hero Of Ages

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Vin freed the entity Ruin by mistake at the Well of Ascension, and Ruin has been changing the Terris prophecies for centuries. Now it controls the koloss armies and turns...

  5. Allow Of Law

    Mistborn book 4

    5. Allow Of Law

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    A spinoff of the Mistborn trilogy. A spinoff of the Mistborn trilogy. The world is on the verge of modernity—railroads,

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of...

  6. Bands Of Mourning

    Mistborn book 6

    6. Bands Of Mourning

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE 300 YEARS AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE MISTBORN TRILOGY **** A reborn world... The new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined...

  7. The Well Of Ascension

    Mistborn book 2

    7. The Well Of Ascension

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's epic Mistborn Trilogy continues with The Well of Ascension. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted...

  8. Secret History

    8. Secret History

    by Sanderson, Brandon

    • Same series
    • Same author

    After the Lord Ruler kills him, Kelsier meets Preservation before he passes on to the Beyond. He refuses, and stays on Scadrial as a cognitive aspect, racing to the Well...

  9. Babel

    9. Babel

    by Kuang, R. F

    • On the same lists

    From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions,...

  10. Nettle & Bone

    10. Nettle & Bone

    by Kingfisher, T

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2023

    After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No...

  11. Legends & Lattes

    11. Legends & Lattes

    by Baldree, Travis

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    Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact,...

  12. Spear

    12. Spear

    by Griffith, Nicola

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    A girl raised alone in the woods by her mother has a gift for talking to animals and a love of fighting. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to...

  13. Saint Death's Daughter

    13. Saint Death's Daughter

    by Cooney, C. S. E.

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    Lanoree Stones is a necromancer who can't stand violence, raised by the ghost of her family's servant in a mansion in the city of Liriat, where her father was the...

  14. House of Sky and Breath

    14. House of Sky and Breath

    by Maas, Sarah J.

    • On the same lists

    Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a...

  15. The Atlas Six

    15. The Atlas Six

    by Blake, Olivie

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    The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among...

  16. The Ballad of Perilous Graves

    16. The Ballad of Perilous Graves

    by Jennings, Alex

    • On the same lists

    In Nola, an alternate New Orleans where magic runs on music, Perry is a failed magician who knows the city's rhythm better than anyone. When the city's Great Magician starts...

  17. Siren Queen

    17. Siren Queen

    by Vo, Nghi

    • On the same lists

    In a Hollywood of the 1930s where the studios run on magic and every starlet is paid for in blood, Luli Wei, a young Chinese American woman, is determined to...

  18. The Golden Enclaves

    18. The Golden Enclaves

    by Novik, Naomi

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    De Gouden Enclaves is het superspannende slotdeel van Naomi Noviks SCHOLOMANCE-serie. Het verhaal over een duistere tovenares wier lot het is om de regels van magie te herschrijven.\ \ El...

  19. Daughter of the Moon Goddess

    19. Daughter of the Moon Goddess

    by Tan, Sue Lynn

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    Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of...

  20. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

    20. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

    by Mandanna, Sangu

    • On the same lists

    Mika Moon is a witch who has spent her life hiding her magic, and posts jokey videos online pretending to be one. When a retired actor recognises her as the...

  21. The Book Eaters

    21. The Book Eaters

    by Dean, Sunyi

    • On the same lists

    Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for.Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and...

  22. When Women Were Dragons

    22. When Women Were Dragons

    by Barnhill, Kelly

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    In 1955, thousands of American women, wives and mothers among them, change into dragons in a single day and fly away. Alex Green is a little girl when her aunt...

  23. Kaikeyi

    23. Kaikeyi

    by Patel, Vaishnavi

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    This is the story of the chief 'Bad Girl' of the Hindu epic the 'Ramayana.' imaginative and well-written, it is a defiantly feminist view of the start of the myth,...

  24. The World We Make

    24. The World We Make

    by Jemisin, N. K.

    • On the same lists

    Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city’s heart and wields its magic. New York? She’s got six.But all is not well in the city...

  25. The Stardust Thief

    25. The Stardust Thief

    by Abdullah, Chelsea

    • On the same lists

    Neither here nor there, but long ago…Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves...

  26. A River Enchanted

    26. A River Enchanted

    by Ross, Rebecca

    • On the same lists

    Jack Tamerlaine left the island of Cadence ten years ago to train as a bard. Now he is called back to the home he hoped to leave behind, where young...

  27. Fairy Tale

    27. Fairy Tale

    by King, Stephen

    • On the same lists

    A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice!Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about...

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