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Love imaginary worlds and powers but find that sexually explicit scenes contaminate the story? Here's a list for you. (Note: may contain references to, but does not detail, sex.) Also focused more on adult reading, less on juvenile.
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Bright Shadow
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3.45 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Gilded Chain (The King's Blades, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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The Book of Atrix Wolfe
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Midnight Magic (Midnight Magic, #2)
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3.66 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
score: 53,
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Lud-in-the-Mist
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3.85 avg rating — 9,432 ratings
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Ghosts in the Snow (Dubric Bryerly, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Ombria in Shadow
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score: 52,
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The Lioness and Her Knight (The Squire's Tales, #7)
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4.27 avg rating — 2,656 ratings
score: 51,
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Warbound (Grimnoir Chronicles, #3)
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4.42 avg rating — 8,611 ratings
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Convergence (The Blending, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Spellbound (Grimnoir Chronicles, #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 11,121 ratings
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312 |
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 679 ratings
score: 49,
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Tooth and Claw
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Jo Walton (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 6,980 ratings
score: 49,
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The Last Guardian of Everness (The War of the Dreaming, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 557 ratings
score: 49,
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Hard Magic (Grimnoir Chronicles, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 16,184 ratings
score: 48,
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316 |
The Wings of Merlin
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T.A. Barron (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 8,318 ratings
score: 47,
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Household Gods
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Judith Tarr (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
score: 47,
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House of Assassins (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 5,063 ratings
score: 47,
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Benighted
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3.48 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
score: 46,
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Swan Knight's Son (The Green Knight's Squire #1; Moth & Cobweb #1)
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4.25 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 46,
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Beauty Sleep
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3.65 avg rating — 7,979 ratings
score: 45,
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Windhaven
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3.68 avg rating — 7,218 ratings
score: 45,
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Feast of the Elfs (The Green Knight's Squire #2; Moth & Cobweb #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 45,
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The Far Side of Evil (Elana, #2)
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Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 558 ratings
score: 44,
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Tiger Burning Bright
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3.86 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
score: 44,
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Swan Knight's Sword (The Green Knight's Squire #3; Moth & Cobweb #3)
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4.57 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 44,
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The Book of Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1-3)
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Steven Brust (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,365 ratings
score: 43,
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The Dark Avenger's Sidekick (The Dark Avenger's Sidekick #1-3; Moth & Cobweb #4-6)
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 43,
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329 |
Diplomacy of Wolves (The Secret Texts, #1)
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Holly Lisle (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
score: 42,
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Daughter of Danger (The Dark Avenger's Sidekick #1; Moth & Cobweb, #4)
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4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 42,
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331 |
Calling on Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #3)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 44,209 ratings
score: 41,
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After the Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
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Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
score: 41,
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City of Corpses (The Dark Avenger's Sidekick #2; Moth & Cobweb #5)
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4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 41,
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Tithe to Tartarus (The Dark Avenger's Sidekick #3; Moth & Cobweb #6)
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4.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 40,
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335 |
Prospero's Children
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3.83 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
score: 39,
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Magic User: Reborn in Another World as a Max Level Wizard (Light Novel) Vol. 1
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4.09 avg rating — 406 ratings
score: 39,
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337 |
The Book of Morgaine (Morgaine Saga, #1-3)
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C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
score: 37,
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The Hollow Kingdom (The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 10,797 ratings
score: 35,
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338 |
The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes, #1)
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 6,258 ratings
score: 35,
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340 |
The Goblin Wood (Goblin Wood, #1)
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Hilari Bell (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,509 ratings
score: 31,
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Child of the Northern Spring (Guinevere, #1)
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Persia Woolley (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
score: 31,
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The Hound and the Falcon (The Hound and the Falcon, #1-3)
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Judith Tarr (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 668 ratings
score: 30,
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Wishing Moon
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3.88 avg rating — 465 ratings
score: 29,
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The Nightingale
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3.74 avg rating — 430 ratings
score: 29,
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Heir Apparent (Rasmussem Corporation, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 10,967 ratings
score: 26,
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Queen of the Amazons
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Judith Tarr (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 286 ratings
score: 25,
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East (East, #1)
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Edith Pattou (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 46,396 ratings
score: 24,
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Imperial Lady: A Fantasy of Han China
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4.07 avg rating — 467 ratings
score: 23,
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The Frog Princess (The Tales of the Frog Princess, #1)
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E.D. Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 28,166 ratings
score: 21,
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Druids (Druids #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
score: 21,
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Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
score: 20,
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352 |
The Dragon's Boy
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 365 ratings
score: 19,
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,313 ratings
score: 18,
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The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 5,521 ratings
score: 18,
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Lady of the Forest
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Jennifer Roberson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,082 ratings
score: 16,
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The Fall of Atlantis (The Fall of Atlantis, #1-2)
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3.77 avg rating — 4,706 ratings
score: 15,
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The Firebrand
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4.07 avg rating — 11,382 ratings
score: 14,
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Black Horses for the King
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3.87 avg rating — 3,381 ratings
score: 13,
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Quatrain
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3.79 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
score: 12,
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Od Magic
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3.99 avg rating — 4,541 ratings
score: 11,
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Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
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Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)
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Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 17,914 ratings
score: 9,
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Pegasus (Pegasus, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 9,343 ratings
score: 8,
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Nameless Magery
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Delia Marshall Turner (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 210 ratings
score: 6,
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Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 11,464 ratings
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Finders-Seekers (Ghatti's Tale, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Thanks for the heads up!


Thanks for the heads up!"
No problem ^.^

A Court of Thorns and Roses,
A Court of Mist and fury,
A Court of Frost and Starlight,
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Empire of Storms
feature adult-aged characters and Explicit NC-17 content: Nudity, Drugs consumption, Rape, Physical Abuse, Abusive relationships, Language, Frank talk of a sexual nature.
They're also shelved as New adult, Adult and Erotica, but as they're marketed as YA, many people make the wrong assumption that they're Young adult.
If someone tries to add those books to this list please comment and I will erase them.
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