23 Books to Read After Your &039Avatar: The Last Airbender&039 Binge

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A long time ago, a show called Avatar: The Last Airbender aired on Nickelodeon. and the world was in harmony. then after three seasons it ended. Thirteen years have passed and Netflix, a streaming service, has brought the show back to us when we needed it most.

You are reading: Books like avatar the last airbender

Okay, that opening will only make sense to people who’ve seen the show’s opening credits, but we couldn’t resist. And if you’re reading this article, you’ve probably already seen it! Right? because people are not only discovering the show right now, but also watching it again. is one of those shows that you can watch over and over again and enjoy so much every time. So whether you’re watching the show for the first or fifth time, we wanted to give you a list of some books to read once your binge is over.

so no matter if you’re looking for more elemental magic, character dynamics, the world, or something else entirely – check out these books to fill that avatar void!

books for fans of ‘avatar: the last airbender’

and books for every kind of spree

1. the prison healer by lynette noni

📚 this is the first book in: the prison healer series

Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer.

When the rogue queen is captured, Kiva takes it upon herself to keep the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to pass her test: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and the earth, assigned only to the most dangerous criminals.

then comes a coded message from kiva’s family, containing a single command: “don’t let her die. we are coming. Aware that the tests will kill the sickly queen, Ella Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in her place. if she succeeds, both she and the queen will gain her freedom.

but no one has ever survived.

With an incurable plague sweeping through Zalindov, a mysterious new inmate fighting for Kiva’s heart, and a prison rebellion brewing, Kiva can’t escape the awful feeling that her trials have only just begun.

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2. set fire to the gods by sara raasch & kristen simmons

Ash is descended from a long line of gladiators, and she knows the brutal nature of war firsthand. But after her mother dies in an arena, she vows to avenge her by overthrowing her fire god, whose temper has stripped her country of its resources.

madoc grew up fighting in the streets to pay his family’s taxes. but he hides a dangerous secret: he doesn’t have the powers of the earth god like his opponents. his elemental gift is something else, something that hasn’t been seen in centuries.

When an attempt at revenge goes dangerously awry, Ash inadvertently throws the gods of fire and earth into a conflict that can only be resolved through lavish and deadly gladiatorial games, putting Madoc in Ash’s path. She realizes that her powers are the weapon her rebellion needs, but Madoc will not endanger her family, no matter how intrigued he is by the beautiful warrior.

But when the gods force Madoc’s hand, he and Ash discover an ancient war that will threaten more than one immortal – it will tear the world apart.

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3. the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yes

F. C. Yee’s The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar.

kyoshi, the longest living avatar in the history of this beloved world, established the brave and respected kyoshi warriors, but also founded the secret dai li, which led to the corruption, decline, and fall of his own nation.

The first of two novels based on kyoshi, the rise of kyoshi traces her journey from a girl of humble origins to the ruthless pursuer of justice who is still feared and admired centuries after she became the avatar.

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4. infinite son by adam silvera

Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.

brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. emil just wants the fight to stop. the cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it more difficult for anyone with power to live peacefully and openly. In this climate of fear, a gang of specters have grown bolder by the day.

Then, in a fight after a protest, Emil manifests a power of his own, one that puts him right at the center of the conflict and makes him the heroic spellwalker Brighton always wanted to be.

brotherhood, love, and loyalty will be tested, and no one will come out of the fight unscathed.

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5. a song of ghosts & ruin by roseanne a. brown

For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.

but karina has her own deadly aspirations. her mother, the sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens to riot; and solstasia hangs like a knife on her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic… which requires the beating heart of a king. And she knows exactly how to get one: by offering her hand in marriage to the winner of the solstasia competition.

When Malik makes his way into the competition, they find themselves on a thrilling course to destroy each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to fulfill their tasks to the death?

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6. an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under martial rule, defiance meets death. those who do not swear their blood and bodies to the emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. the family barely survives in the impoverished alleys of the empire. they do not challenge the empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Ella is forced to make a choice. In exchange for the help of the rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy on them from within the largest military academy in the empire.

There, Laia meets Elias, the best soldier in the school and secretly the most reluctant. Elijah just wants to be free from the tyranny he is being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined and that their decisions will change the fate of the empire itself.

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7. the tiger at midnight by swati teerdhala

Esha lost everything in the royal coup—and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she’s made the guilty pay. Now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.

kunal has been a soldier since childhood. His uncle, the General, has made sure that Kunal never strays from the path, even as a part of Kunal yearns to join the outside world, which he has only become more volatile.

When esha and kunal’s paths cross one fateful night, an impossible chain of events unfolds. Both the snake and the soldier think they’re in control, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces.

As the ties that keep their land in order are broken and the sins of the past find the promise of a new future, soldier and rebel alike must decide where their loyalty lies: with the lives they have killed to keep. about or with the love that has made them dream of something else.

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8. three dark crowns of kendare blake

In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic.

mirabella is a ferocious elemental, capable of calling forth hungry flames or ferocious storms with a snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, someone who can ingest the deadliest of poisons without even getting a stomach ache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to make the reddest rose bloom and control the fiercest of lions.

But becoming the crowned queen is not just a matter of royal birth. every sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose… it’s life or death. the night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins. the last queen standing gets the crown.

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9. victoria aveyard red queen

Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.

To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As the mare ventures deeper into the silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to aid the scarlet guard, a growing red rebellion, even as her heart pulls her in an impossible direction.

one false move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.

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10. maya motayne night

To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her…and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks.

As a talented face changer, it’s been years since Finn saw his own face, and that’s exactly how he likes it. But when Finn is trapped by a powerful mobster, she is forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from the royal palace of Castallan or be stripped of his magic forever.

After the murder of his older brother, Prince Alfehr is first in line to the Castilian throne. but alfie can’t help but feel that he will never live up to his brother’s legacy. Plagued with grief, Alfie is obsessed with finding a way to bring his brother back to him, even if it means dabbling in forbidden magic.

But when Finn and Alfie’s fates collide, they accidentally unlock a terrible ancient power that, if left unchecked, will engulf the world. And with the fate of Castallan in their hands, Alfie and Finn must race to defeat what they’ve unleashed, even if it means facing the deepest darkness of their past.

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11. born of fury by claire legrand

When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.

a thousand years later, the legend of queen rielle is a fairy tale for eliana ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Eternal Empire, Eliana believes herself to be untouchable, until her mother goes missing. To find her, Eliana teams up with a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.

As Rielle and Eliana fight a cosmic war spanning millennia, their stories intersect and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world and each other.

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12. cinda williams chima’s flamethrower

Adrian sul’Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic—and a thirst for revenge. Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Now he’s closer than ever to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. Can Ash use his powers not to save a life but to take it?

abandoned at birth, jenna bandelow was told the magical mark on the back of her neck would make her a target. But when the King’s Guard begins a relentless search for a girl with a mark like hers, Jenna assumes she has more to do with her role as saboteur than any curse based on her birth. Eventually, Ash and Jenna’s paths will collide. United by chance and united by their hatred of the ruthless king, they will come to each other’s rescue in ways they cannot yet imagine.

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13. onyx & ivory by mindee arnett

They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime.

Broken from the peerage, Kate now works for the royal courier service. only the fittest survive and only the fastest, because when night falls, the dragons, deadly dragons that don’t fly, come out to hunt. Fortunately, Kate has a secret advantage: she is a wild one, born with forbidden magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals.

And it is this magic that leads her to a caravan massacred by dragons in broad daylight: the sole survivor, corwin tomaine, the king’s son. her first love, the boy she swore to forget after he sentenced his father to death. With their paths entangled once again, Kate and Corwin must put the past behind them to confront this new and even darker threat stirring the kingdom.

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14. realm of souls by rena barron

Heir to two lines of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. Yet she fails at bone magic, fails to call upon her ancestors, and fails to live up to her family’s legacy. Under the disapproving eye of her mother, the Kingdom’s most powerful priestess and seer, she fears she may never be good enough.

But when the children of the kingdom begin to disappear, Arrah is desperate enough to resort to a dangerous and forbidden ritual. if she doesn’t have magic of her own, she will have to buy it by trading years of her own life.

arrah’s borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal and, right after, a rising tide of darkness that threatens to consume her and everyone she loves. She must race to unravel a twisted and deadly plan…before the fight costs more than she can pay.

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15. we hunt the llama by hafsah faizal

Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.

both are legends in the kingdom of arawiya, but neither wants to be.

The war is coming and the arz is getting closer with each passing day, enveloping the land in shadows. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Archz, the King sends Nasir on a similar quest: retrieve the artifact and kill the hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds, and the prize they seek may pose a greater threat than anyone can imagine.

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16. the world that never bends over chupeco rin

A world split between day and night. Two sisters who must unite it.

Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled, until one sister’s betrayal split their world in two. a great chasm now divides two realms: one shrouded in eternal night, the other scorched under an ever-burning sun.

While one sister rules the frozen fortress of Aranth, her twin rules the golden city surrounded by sand, each with a daughter by her side. now those young goddesses must undertake separate and equally dangerous journeys in hopes of healing their broken world. no matter what sacrifice she demands.

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17. empire of dreams by rae carson

Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally—after years and years of running, of fighting—she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She’ll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress’s greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes.

But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family from her, she joins the royal guard, the world’s most elite fighting force. however, it is no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess. someone whose dark agenda puts everything, and everyone, she loves at risk. as she approaches danger, red must save the empire. if she can survive the draft year, something no woman has ever done before.

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18. don’t call the wolf by aleksandra ross

A fierce young queen, neither human nor lynx, who fights to protect a forest humans have long abandoned.

an exhausted young soldier, last of his name, searching for the brother who disappeared under those trees without a trace.

a golden dragon, fearsome and vengeful, whose wings haunt his nightmares and his steps.

When these three paths cross on the brink of a war between monster and man, the shapeshifting queen and the reluctant hero strike a deal that may finally turn the tide against the growing hordes of darkness. Ren will help Lukasz find his brother…if Lukasz promises to kill the dragon.

but promises are broken too easily.

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19. princess ash by laura sebastian

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia’s family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess-a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner.

for ten years, theo has been held captive in her own palace. she has endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the kaiser and his court. she is powerless, surviving in her new world only by burying the child she was inside of her.

then one night, the kaiser forces her to do the unthinkable. With blood on her hands and all hope of reclaiming her throne, she realizes that surviving is no longer enough. but she has a weapon: her mind is sharper than any sword. and her power is not always won on the battlefield.

For ten years, the Princess of Ashes has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. all that ends here.

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20. all stars and teeth by adalyn grace

As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer — the master of souls. The rest of the realm can choose their magic, but for Amora, it’s never been a choice. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy’s dangerous soul magic.

When her demo goes awry, Amora is forced to go on the run. She makes a deal with Bastian, a mysterious pirate: he will help her prove that she is fit to rule, if she helps him recover her stolen magic from her.

But navigating the realm holds more wonder — and more danger — than amora anticipated. A destructive new magic is on the rise, and if Amora is to conquer it, she’ll have to face off against legendary monsters, cross paths with vengeful mermaids, and deal with a stowaway she never expected…or risk Visidia’s fate and lose the crown forever.

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21. snake & made by shelby mahurin

Bound as one, to love, honor, or burn.

Two years ago, Louise Le Blanc fled her coven and took refuge in the city of Cesarine, abandoning all magic and living off whatever she could steal. witches like lou are hunted there. they are feared. and they burn.

As a church hunter, reid diggory has lived his life by one principle: you will not allow a witch to live. But when Lou pulls a wicked trick, the two are forced into an impossible situation: marriage.

Lou, unable to ignore her growing feelings, but unable to change who she is, must make a decision. and love makes fools of us all.

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22. sons of blood and bone by tomi adeyemi

They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us.

now we get up.

zélie adebola remembers when the land of orïsha buzzed with magic. burners lit flames, tides drew waves, and zélie’s reaper mother summoned souls.

but everything changed the night the magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, the maji were slaughtered, leaving zélie without a mother and her people without hope. now zélie has a chance to recover the magic and attack the monarchy. With the help of a rebellious princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic forever.

Danger lurks in Orisha, where snow leopards prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. however, the greatest danger may be zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.

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23. jade fire gold june cl tan

in an empire on the brink of war. . .

ahn is nobody, without a past or family.

altan is a lost heir, his future taken from him as a child.

When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaim the throne. Ahn sees a way to finally unlock her past and understand her deadly magical abilities.

but they may have to pay a much higher price than anyone could have imagined.

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