A Room of One’s Pwn: 10 Fun Books Like World of Warcraft

In this award-winning novel, a motley crew of supernatural adventurers must band together to stop a murderer in the Crescent Moon Kingdoms. A ghul hunter, a holy warrior, and a shape-shifter seek the killer amidst a growing rebellion spurred on by the fight for power between the Kahlif and the mysterious thief called the Falcon Prince. Along the way, they’ll uncover a vast conspiracy that possibly goes all the way to the top.

This book is a fantasy novel wrapped in a hug! In WoW, the large settlements have inns where you can purchase food and goods, get your armor fixed, pick up quests, and rest your head. Legends & Lattes is set in a coffee shop owned by an orc warrior whose attempt to retire quietly from the battle business and run her establishment is hampered by a new set of problems.

Kinch Na Shannack is a thief with heavy debts to pay, so he decides to rob a traveler to help defray his expenses. (He is a thief, after all.) Unfortunately, his victim turns out to be a handmaiden to the goddess of death, who doesn’t take kindly to being robbed. Now, Kinch is tied up in an epic quest to find a missing queen that will take them through dangers unknown, and he must use all his skills to survive.

This is a great story of royalty and assassins in an ancient city. In Gujaareh, magic rules the land. The Gatherers are priests of the temple who harvest magic from the sleeping to use to help both heal and also kill, if necessary. But something is going wrong in the minds of dreamers, and they are dying. It points to a conspiracy behind palace walls, one that only the priest — and assassin — Ehiru can stop.

In WoW, you can play for the side of good, the Alliance, or the side of evil, the Horde. On the Horde side, there are a lot more skulls, corpses, undead, etc. It’s fun to be a villain. And sometimes, the villains save the day! Like in this novel, a demonologist, a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish war leader, a pirate queen, and an alchemist must reunite to save their land. It’s like a nerdier, high-fantasy Suicide Squad!

And in WoW, there are also merchants. You meet them in towns, and they can sell you the things you need, whether it’s armor, weapons, food, spices, or potions. You also must travel on foot for the first several levels, where you never know what you will encounter on your journey. In this excellent fantasy, a young pepper merchant comes across the ghost of a young girl as he heads into Olondria to peddle his wares. Attempting to help the ghost, he becomes mixed up in a royal power struggle.

Cheers meets Dungeons & Dragons in this fun comic about a retired adventurer and his tavern! The legendary fighter Barrow hung up his weapons to open a bar. But running a tavern isn’t without its problems. The love lives of his waitstaff cause complications, the King is eyeing his land, a specter follows wherever he goes, and then there’s the secret in the back of the tavern he’s hiding from most everyone.