Game of Tjrones Seven Books Yoi Can Read While You Wait
After eight seasons and nine long years, the Game of Thrones phenomenon is finally over (except for the inevitable prequels, spinoffs, movie franchises…).
Fans of George R. R. Martin'south A Song of Ice and Fire, the volume series that inspired the Tv set bear witness, will (in theory) exist able to revisit Westeros in two more volumes of the ballsy fantasy series.
Although we may accept to wait a while — it's been 8 years since the last book was released and no raven has arrived with a release date for the 6th novel, The Winds of Winter.
We won't take to spend Mondays tiptoeing effectually the internet, avoiding future plot points, only I know I'thou not the just 1 who will miss the anticipation. There will definitely exist a void left by the difference of our favourite, and most hated, characters.
The good news is nosotros can make full that void! Luckily in that location are more than books out there than those written by George R. R. Martin, and I'chiliad non talking about the Harry Potter serial.
As a librarian it'due south basically my chore to match readers (that's you) with the books they want to read. And that's exactly what I've done hither: create a reading guide for everyone who loves Game of Thrones. Into dragons? I've got books for you. Want strong, badass female person characters? Or epic plots? Yep, there'southward more books for you. Medieval politics? You've got it. Another fantasy show to binge? Read on.
Whatever your reason for loving Game of Thrones, I promise there is something in the below list that will hold the door (sorry, I had to get there) open up for you lot, and assist you observe a narrative fix.
Dracarys (y'all're all nigh the dragons)
If you loved Dany's bond with Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion (not to mention Jon's How to Train your Dragon-esque journeying to becoming a full-blown Targaryen) here are some of the best novels featuring dragons.
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Dragons definitely took GoT'south military scenes to the next level. In her culling history Temeraire series, Novik starts with an unhatched dragon egg and writes dragons into the boxing arsenal of the Napoleonic Wars.
If you dig this historical context, you could as well check out Magician to the Crown past Zen Cho for a serious dragons-in-Regency-England vibe.
The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
If you love the way dragons exist in the Seven Kingdoms nigh equally historical artefacts, reminders of a heroic era, you might similar the Rain Wild Chronicles past Robin Hobb. Dragons are written into the mythos of all of Hobb's novels, just her Rain Wild series focuses on their ties with humans.
You'll find more human-dragon bonding in Michael Swanwick's wonderful steampunk legend The Atomic number 26 Dragon's Daughter.
And while information technology may not feature a zombie dragon, some would fence that the mail service-apocalyptic film Reign of Fire is a seriously underrated cultural property. This implausible but entertaining motion-picture show is definitely worth a re-scout.
Medieval fantasy (you enjoyed the historical settings and big bandage)
If you lot loved the parallels with history in Game of Thrones, and enjoyed characters that seem based on real historical figures, you might be interested in more fantasy that sticks closely to existent-world source fabric and is told from multiple points of view.
Guy Gavriel Kay's books
Historical fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay is the merely writer in my book that comes shut to rivalling George R.R. Martin. His standalone novels are perfect for the reader who wants a sophisticated fantasy hitting without the need to commit to a multivolume series. Like to the settings of Bravos, Dorne and King's Landing, Kay's novels characteristic historical settings from Moorish Spain and Viking England to Tang Dynasty China and Byzantium.
Like A Song of Ice and Burn, the characters in Kay'due south novels are often flawed and his stories are deeply moving (I challenge you not to ugly-weep when reading the final chapters of Tigana or The Lions of Al-Rassan).
Kay is also a not bad choice if you enjoy political intrigue. For Byzantine backstabbing that would rival the Lannisters, I would start off with two novels of the eastern Roman Empire, Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors.
Game of Domes (you liked GoT but it would've been better set in space)
Fantasy isn't for everyone, but that doesn't mean there aren't ballsy stories told elsewhere in speculative fiction. If your world-building jam is more nanotechnology than dragons, you will still observe intense drama and smashing graphic symbol development in these sci-fi reads.
Luna series by Ian McDonald
If you lot really dig the family unit sagas and constant feuding in Game of Thrones, y'all might like Luna: New Moon, Luna: Wolf Moon, and Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald. The frontier territory in McDonald'southward novels promises coin and ability for five rival Earth families who could easily be mistaken for the Lannisters, Starks, Baratheons, Greyjoys and Targaryens.
Like Game of Thrones, the Luna novels are stories of dynastic empire-edifice on an ballsy scale. The political manoeuvring is admittedly brutal, there are some fantastic underdog characters and the tech is super cool. The Moon really is a harsh mistress, and the hostile surroundings keeps everything tense enough to make these novels the kind of page-turners that might just ruin you.
A Long Style to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
If y'all like your space opera with a bit less intensity, a good option would be Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series, starting with A Long Manner to a Small Aroused Planet. With a fun Star-Trek-meets-Firefly vibe, these novels offer some variety sorely missing from Game of Thrones and provide a experience-good antitoxin with comforting character development — only like the drinking scenes on the nights earlier and later the Boxing of Winterfell.
You loved the badass female characters
We all know that women don't crave trauma to feel growth, but it has certainly been a journey watching Daenerys, Arya and Sansa's characters develop over eight seasons. And whether you dearest or hate Cersei, you cannot deny that she is a complicated and fascinating character (even more than so in the books than the serial).
Here are some reading suggestions that will introduce you to every bit radical women.
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
A historical armed forces fantasy based on confronting moments from Chinese history, this novel explores deep patriarchal roots and how to pause them. Kuang's female characters are complicated considering they are existent women — selfish, power-hungry and not ever likeable. I think George R. R. Martin would approve.
Throne of Drinking glass past Sarah J. Maas
With an infamous teenage assassin as a heroine, Maas's hugely popular loftier fantasy series features danger, conspiracy, armed combat and an unfolding mystery of ballsy proportions. This series is dark but clever, and Celaena has a circuitous graphic symbol arc over seven books in the series.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Ready 15 years after Offred's unknown fate at the end of The Handmaid'due south Tale, Margaret Atwood returns with a sequel in late 2019 (34 years after the original novel was published).
The Goggle box series delved deeper into the trauma of Gilead and the underground resistance of fifty-fifty the least likely of characters, and this new novel (told by three female narrators) may provide definitive closure to Atwood's dystopia.
While they were already spruiked, yous will also find badass ladies in Guy Gavriel Kay and Ian McDonald's novels — look out for Styliane Daleina in Lord of Emperors and Adriana Corta in Luna: New Moon.
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Desire some other TV show about the end of the world?
Proficient Omens
The tv set accommodation of the best-selling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens releases in Australia on Friday 31 May, and it looks so incredibly good.
Demon Crowley and the affections Aziraphale have been around on Earth since the beginning, and they accept really grown to quite like information technology. With the end times officially on their way, Crowley (played past David Tennant) and Aziraphale (played past Michael Sheen) are going to have to play nice and work together to maintain the status quo that is our messy humanity. I'g trying to tell you at present, information technology'southward sabotage — and it's going to be hilarious.
With a stellar cast, Neil Gaiman on board as executive producer and fidelity to the source material, this could be an excellent weekly replacement for Game of Thrones.
For now, though, happy reading!
Jenn Martin is a librarian and reading specialist from Sydney who loves helping people piece of work out what to read next. She is the resident bibliotherapist at Mudgee Readers' Festival and is a founding fellow member of reading community Friends at the Library.
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