Books Like Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone

Loved Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone? Here are the closest LitRPG and progression-fantasy reads, ranked by trope and theme overlap. Each pick lists the elements it shares with Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone so you can pick by what you actually want next.

  1. The Riyria Chronicles [WITTY BANTER | EPIC FANTASY | ASSASSINS | THIEVES | MERCENARIES] cover
    by MichaelJSullivan

    A disgraced assassin and a mercenary with a conscience trade sharp banter and sharper blades while unraveling a noblewoman’s deadly secrets.

  2. Star Wars: A Penumbral Path cover
    by Lee Duckett

    Two Padawans train under rogue Jedi Masters, forging their own path between the Order’s light and the war’s encroaching darkness.

  3. The Lady's Handbook of Intrigue and Murder (High Fantasy Politics) cover
    by HaltWrite

    Mydea, a noblewoman with neither magic nor coin, must outmaneuver the Imperial City's deadly courtly intrigues before its daggers find her back.

  4. An Arsonist and a Necromancer Walk into a Bar cover
    by FictionalAtlas

    A fire mage wields a necromancer's cursed staff, torn between the guild's distrust and the whispers of the dead in its wood.

  5. Here Be Dragons: Book 1 of the Emergence Series cover
    by Second_Sol

    A stranded scientist becomes humanity's first ambassador to sapient dragons, where every misstep could doom his species to extinction.

  6. Shade Touched cover
    #6

    Shade Touched

    match 56%
    by Zat

    A curious little monster ventures beyond her wild instincts, discovering whispering ruins and forgotten magics—but the wilderness guards its secrets with tooth and claw.

  7. Cursed Relic Collector cover
    #7

    Cursed Relic Collector

    match 55%
    by Maradina

    A trinket merchant bargains with a forgotten god for cursed relics, gaining power to hunt his enemies—if the artifacts don’t destroy him first.

  8. Foxfire, Esq cover
    #8

    Foxfire, Esq

    match 54%
    by Noa (October)

    A former government superweapon turned lawyer must choose between her hard-won peace and fighting for justice against the system that created her.

  9. The Acts of Androkles cover
    #9

    The Acts of Androkles

    match 54%
    by Ryan English

    A scarred veteran tracks his stolen fortune through monster-infested lands, only to face a harder battle when two orphans force him to choose between vengeance and honor.

  10. The Ogre's Pendant & The Rat in the Pit cover
    by J.M. Clarke (U Juggernaut)

    A thief and a demon hunter must outrun a ruthless wizard and a barbarian horde to steal an artifact from the cursed Forest of Giants, where ogres stalk their every move.

  11. The Exorcist Doctor cover
    #11

    The Exorcist Doctor

    match 54%
    by Maradina

    A disgraced doctor wields stolen arcanotech and a dying exorcist's symbiotic system to fight plague cults in a city choking on magic parasites.

  12. To The Far Shore cover
    #12

    To The Far Shore

    match 53%
    by Warby Picus

    A radiation wizard flees his clan’s brutal magic, only to face a shattered world of cannibals, machines, and the marriage he can’t outrun.

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