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9 books to read after The Thousand Names by Django Wexler, sorted by what you loved about it.
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Soldiers of Vordan face a campaign in a setting inspired by Napoleonic Europe and North Africa, with supernatural stakes.
Book one of The Shadow Campaigns; the broader series has five novels.
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It depends on what you loved about it. For more gunpowder and command: Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. For the soldier’s personal experience: Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky. For a wider early modern world: Hawkwood’s Voyage by Paul Kearney.
9 books, grouped by what readers loved about The Thousand Names. Each one says why it fits, what is different and who backs the recommendation.
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