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Casket of Souls

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The Fragile Threads of Power

V.E. Schwab · 648 pages

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasy
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The Crown Tower

Michael J. Sullivan · 432 pages

Thieving assassin Royce Melborn and warrior Hadrian Blackwater are forced to work together to steal a treasure that no one can reach in the Crown Tower, an impregnable fortress that houses the realm's most prized possessions.

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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A Darker Shade of Magic

Victoria Schwab · 430 pages

STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised alongsid

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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Blood of the Mantis

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 448 pages

Sequel to Dragonfly Falling. Achaeos the seer has finally tracked down the stolen Shadow Box. But he has only days before this magical artefact will be lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the Empire's dread forces are mustering for their next great offensive. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather allies before the enemy's soldiers march again - to conquer everything in their pat

Thieves and RoguesEspionagePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Foundryside

Robert Jackson Bennett · 501 pages

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasy
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The Ambassador's Mission

Trudi Canavan · 513 pages

Sonea, a Black Magician of Kyralia, is horrified when her son, Lorkin, volunteers to assist the new Guild Ambassador to Sachaka. When word comes that Lorkin has gone missing, Sonea is desperate to find him, but if she leaves the city she will be exiled forever. And besides, an old friend is in need of her help.Most of her friend's family has been murdered - the latest in a long line of assassina

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks · 645 pages

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted,

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch · 512 pages

"HIGH-OCTANE FANTASY...A CREAT SWASHBUCKLING YARN OF A NOVEL." -Richard Morgan In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's El

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set

Brandon Sanderson

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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Mélusine

Sarah Monette · 496 pages

Melusine-a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption. It is here that wizard Felix Harrowgate and cat-burglar Mildmay the Fox will find their destinies intertwined in a world of sensuality and savagery.

Thieves and RoguesLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFantasyMorally Gray Character
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Faerie Lord

Herbie Brennan · 432 pages

When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm.

PlaguePolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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Kalyna the Cutthroat

Elijah Kinch Spector · 464 pages

Thieves and RoguesEspionagePolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Silverthorn

Raymond E. Feist · 352 pages

A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor. To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mytics herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers. Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he wil confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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The Moscow Vector

Patrick Larkin · 456 pages

PlaguePolitical IntrigueEspionageMale Lead
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His Face is the Sun

Michelle Jabès Corpora · 600 pages

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A new reign is coming...Romance, magic, adventure, and horror collide in the start to this lush, epic, Ancient Egyptian inspired trilogy perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tahereh Mafi, and Sabaa Tahir. Princess. Priestess. Rebel. Thief. Tensions run as hot as the Khamsin winds in the great kingdom of Khetara. Rumors of the pharaoh's mysterious illness abound,

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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The Devils

Joe Abercrombie · 553 pages

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasySeries
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Wrath of Empire

Brian McClellan · 639 pages

EspionagePolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss · 1,000 pages

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread p

Thieves and RoguesFantasyPolitical IntrigueMale Lead
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The Secret of the Nagas

Amish Tripathi · 414 pages

Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is cert

PlaguePolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead
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Long Time Gone

S.E. Jakes · 246 pages

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistEspionageMorally Gray CharacterMale Lead
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A Dance of Shadows

David Dalglish · 480 pages

Thieves and RoguesPolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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Absolute Power

David Baldacci · 528 pages

In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States. Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s i

Thieves and RoguesEspionagePolitical IntrigueMale Lead
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Rule of Wolves

Leigh Bardugo · 592 pages

The Demon King. As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm—and even the monster within—to win this fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible. The Stormwitch. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to

EspionagePolitical IntrigueFantasyMorally Gray Character
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Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

Ginn Hale · 358 pages

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistPolitical IntrigueFantasyMale Lead

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