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Books Like The Long Price Quartet

Abraham, 2006 · #58 on the Epic Fantasy 101 Booklist · 77/120

Poets in the Khaiem cities bind ideas into captive spirits that guarantee their wealth and their safety. Two men's rivalry over one of them reshapes an empire across a lifetime.

Its strongest scores: theme and structure. The five books below have the closest scores across all eleven criteria.

If you liked The Long Price Quartet, read:

1. The Engineer Trilogy

   Parker, 2005 · #82 on the list · 70/120

   Ieuan Vaatzes, an engineer exiled for one small improvement to a design, turns his skill with machines into a weapon of revenge against the city that cast him out.

   Close on mood, theme, structure, further reading.

2. The Books of Babel

   Bancroft, 2013 · #60 on the list · 77/120

   On his honeymoon, a schoolteacher loses his wife in the crowds at the foot of the colossal Tower of Babel. He climbs ring after ring to find her.

   Close on mood, theme, structure, further reading.

3. Vlad Taltos

   Brust, 1983 · #74 on the list · 72/120

   A human assassin climbs the underworld of an elf-like Dragaeran empire, with a witty familiar on his shoulder.

   Close on mood, creative details, real-world blend, climax and fights.

4. The Chathrand Voyage

   Redick, 2008 · #91 on the list · 67/120

   Aboard a six-hundred-year-old ship carrying a peace mission, a tarboy, a young bride and a crew of tiny ixchel are caught in a plot to restart a war.

   Close on mood, creative details, real-world blend, divine influence.

5. Majipoor

   Silverberg, 1980 · #96 on the list · 61/120

   A wandering juggler with no memory on a vast planet of many species learns he is the rightful Coronal. His body has been stolen.

   Close on creative details, real-world blend, divine influence, climax and fights.

How the scores work: each book is rated 1 to 10 on eleven criteria; real-world blend and climax and fights count double, for a maximum of 120. See the full Fantasy 101.