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Books like Sharp Ends

12 books with a reading profile close to Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie. Escapist; a moderate read.

1

Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love

by Bill Willingham

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In this third collection, the exiled community of Fabletown faces internal scandals and external threats.
2

Mistborn

by Brandon Sanderson

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In a world buried under falling ash, the immortal Lord Ruler maintains a thousand-year stranglehold on the oppressed skaa population.
3

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

by George R. R. Martin

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Set nearly a century before the events of the Iron Throne succession struggle, this collection follows the travels of a towering, low-born hedge knight named Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive squire, Egg.
4

The Dark Tower VII

by Stephen King

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Roland Deschain reaches the end of his quest to save the nexus of all universes.
5

Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm

by Bill Willingham

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In this installment, the focus shifts from the urban Fabletown to "The Farm," an upstate New York sanctuary for non-human fables like the Three Pigs, Shere Khan, and Goldilocks.
6

New Spring (The Wheel of Time, Book 0)

by Robert Jordan

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Set twenty years before the main sequence begins, the narrative focuses on Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche as they transition from Accepted to full Aes Sedai in the White Tower.
7

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

by Brandon Sanderson

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Arcanum Unbounded compiles stories and novellas set within the Cosmere, a shared universe where various planets host unique magical systems.
8

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home

by Joss Whedon

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Picking up where the television series finale ended, this volume follows Buffy Summers as she commands a global organization of over five hundred newly activated Slayers.
9

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

by Mike Carey

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Richard Mayhew is an ordinary London office worker whose life unravels after he stops to help a bleeding girl named Door on a sidewalk.
10

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

by Marjorie M. Liu

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Maika Halfwolf is a teenage survivor of a genocidal war between the feline-like Arcanics and the Cumaea, an order of sorceresses who consume Arcanics to fuel their magic.
11

A game of thrones, the graphic novel

by Daniel Abraham

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

This graphic novel adapts George R.R.
12

A Game Of Thrones The Graphic Novel Volume 2

by Daniel Abraham, George R. R. Martin

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In this second volume, the narrative follows Lord Eddard Stark as he navigates the dangerous politics of King’s Landing while serving as Hand of the King.

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