A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic series with fantastic books, is not finished yet and has fans eagerly awaiting its next part. If you are also one of them, or you are a fan of the TV series and want to read other books like A Song of Ice and Fire, you are at the right place.
Here are ten Epic Fantasy books like A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin that you will love!
#1 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
About the book
Title: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages: 640
Goodreads Rating: 3.44/5
In the first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say.
Engaged in tracking down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge full of unusual characters with secrets, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
Why do we recommend this book?
It has impressive drawings from African history and mythology and rich imagination. Marlon James has written an adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorisation and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf explores the fundamentals of truths, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
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#2 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
About the book
Title: Norse Mythology
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 301
Goodreads Rating: 4.10/5
In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
Gaiman fashions these primaeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.
Why do we recommend this book?
Long inspired by ancient mythology, Neil Gaiman created the fantastical realms of his fiction with lots of funny and witty telling of the Norse myths.
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#3 The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
Tad Williams
About the book
Title: The Dragonbone Chair
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: DAW
Pages: 672
Goodreads Rating: 3.96/5
This is the first book of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. A war fueled by the powers of dark sorcery is about to engulf the peaceful land of Osten Ard—for Prester John, the High King, lies dying. And with his death, the Storm King, the undead ruler of the elf-like Sithi, seizes the chance to regain his lost realm through a pact with the newly ascended king. Knowing the consequences of this bargain, the king’s younger brother joins with a small, scattered group of scholars, the League of the Scroll, to confront the true danger threatening Osten Ard.
Why do we recommend this book?
The Dragonbone Chair is chock and block full of wonder, and to fully appreciate this book, you need to be patient. I recommend this epic fantasy book series to the fans of A Song of Ice and Fire books.
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#4 The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley
Brian Staveley
About the book
Title: The Emperor’s Blades
Author: Brian Staveley
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 480
Goodreads Rating: 4.09/5
The emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life path on which their father set them, destinies entangled with ancient enemies and inscrutable gods.
Kaden, the heir to the Unhewn Throne, has spent eight years sequestered in a remote mountain monastery, learning the enigmatic discipline of monks devoted to the Blank God. Their rituals hold the key to an ancient power he must master before it’s too late.
Why do we recommend this book?
This five books series has its good and bad points, but one thing is clear: the characters are well-written, and you will deeply care for them.
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#5 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
About the book
Title: The Eye of the World
Author: Robert Jordan
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 800
Goodreads Rating: 4.19/5
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legends. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns. What was, what will be, and what may fall under the Shadow?
Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond’s Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half-beasts invade the village seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and the light.
Why do we recommend this book?
This book is a masterpiece and certainly one of the best first books in a fantasy series I have ever read for a long time. It is an excellent read. I suggest that you trust the process and keep reading. You will get some exciting characters, arcs, and stories.
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#6 The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
About the book
Title: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages: 432
Goodreads Rating: 4.38/5
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him.
After many ages, it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins faces an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
Why do we recommend this book?
Writer George R. R. Martin shared in an interview how the Lord of the Rings books were a big inspiration for A Song of Ice and Fire, and he created many parallels between those two. So, this series is highly recommended too.
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#7 The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
About the book
Title: The Final Empire
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 541
Goodreads Rating: 4.47/5
The first book from the series Mistborn. For a thousand years, the ash fell, and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. The Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible for a thousand years. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a scarred, heartbroken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. Kelsier “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Why do we recommend this book?
Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.
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#8 The Iron King by Maurice Druon, Humphrey Hare (Translator), George R.R. Martin (Foreword)
About the book
Title: The Iron King
Author: Maurice Druon, Humphrey Hare (Translator), George R.R. Martin (Foreword)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 340
Goodreads Rating: 4.06/5
The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand. Still, he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous, while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.
A web of scandal, murder, and intrigue is weaving around the Iron King, but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knight Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty.
Why do we recommend this book?
The first book in The Accursed Kings series inspired by George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and an epic historical fantasy book is highly recommended to every GOT fan.
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#9 The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Jenn Lyons
About the book
Title: The Ruin of Kings
Author: Jenn Lyons
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 560
Goodreads Rating: 3.83/5
Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn’t what the storybooks promised. Far from living the dream, Kihrin finds himself practically a prisoner, at the mercy of his new family’s power plays and ambitions.
He also discovers that the storybooks have lied about many other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins. Then again, maybe he’s not the hero, for Kihrin is not destined to save the empire. He’s destined to destroy it.
Why do we recommend this book?
This series has all the elements GOT has and many more, so it is somehow similar as well as different. However, I dare tell you this series may not become your top fantasy series, but it can be an interesting read.
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#10 Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor
About the book
Title: Who Fears Death
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Pages: 386
Goodreads Rating: 3.95/5
In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different.
She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means “Who Fears Death?” in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny—to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfil her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture—and eventually, death itself.
Why do we recommend this book?
It is based on post-apocalyptic Africa into a supernatural fantasy that explores the intersections of tradition, sex, and sexuality of history and intertextuality, which is entirely different from the average fantasy novel.
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Here are our top favourite books, which are great replacements for the series A Song of Ice and Fire. If you have any other books that you loved reading and we missed that explore similar themes, then do tell us in the comment section.
| 1 | Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James | Buy now ; Buy The Dark Star series |
| 2 | Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman | Buy now ; Buy Norse Mythology series |
| 3 | The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams | Buy now ; Buy Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn now |
| 4 | The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley | Buy now ; Buy Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series |
| 5 | The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan | Buy now ; Buy The Wheel of Time series |
| 6 | The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien | Buy now ; Buy The Lord of The Rings series |
| 7 | The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson | Buy now ; Buy Mistborn series |
| 8 | The Iron King by Maurice Druon | Buy now ; Buy The Accursed Kings series |
| 9 | The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons | Buy now ; Buy A Chorus of Dragons series |
| 10 | Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor | Buy now |
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