Books like Queen of the Conquered
Sigourney Rose, last of the only island-born noble family left in the Hans Lollik islands, can read and bend minds, and has planned for years to take the throne when the colonisers' king chooses his heir.
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The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Baru Cormorant, whose island was conquered by the Empire of Masks when she was a child, rises through the empire's service as an accountant, planning to destroy it from within, whatever it costs her.
Prince of Thorns
A tortured prince fights his way to the throne through a grimdark medieval world where cruelty is the only currency and survival is the only virtue.
The Winner's Curse
Kestrel, the daughter of a conquering general who would rather play music than fight, impulsively buys a young slave named Arin at auction, and the price of that choice grows as she discovers what he is hiding.
Tigana
Twenty years after a sorcerer-king laid a spell on the province that killed his son, so that no one born outside it can hear or remember its name, a handful of its exiles, among them a young singer, plot to bring it back.
The Pariah
Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.
The Poppy War
A war orphan with shamanic powers is drafted into a military academy where she must survive both the brutality of training and the awakening of ancient gods.
The Fifth Season
On a continent wracked by catastrophic seasons of earthquakes and ash, Essun, a woman who can control seismic energy and must hide it, sets out to find her daughter as the world begins to end again.
Best Served Cold
A mercenary general plots revenge after being betrayed, hiring a motley company for a blood-soaked campaign across a war-torn land.
City of Stairs
Shara Komayd, a spy posing as a junior diplomat from Saypur, the nation that conquered its old masters by killing their gods, arrives in the occupied city of Bulikov to investigate the murder of a Saypuri historian.
The Blade Itself
A barbarian, a torturer, and a nobleman are drawn into a war they don't understand, in a grimdark world where nobody is the hero.
Powers
Gavir, an enslaved boy in a city-state who has visions of the future, grows up loyal to the household that owns him, until a betrayal sends him in search of freedom, in the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore.
Six of Crows
Kaz Brekker, a teenage criminal prodigy in the port city of Ketterdam, gathers five dangerous outcasts for a heist no one has survived: breaking a prisoner out of the Ice Court, the impregnable stronghold of Fjerda.