I see a lot of "what to read if you love ASOIAF" recommendations, and I wanted to try my hand at recommending some new ones based on which aspects of the books are your favorite:
if you like the prophetic dreams with beautiful, symbolic imagery and a side of deconstructing the Hero's Journey all wrapped up around themes of identity and metamorphosis, read Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
if you like the representation of how growing up in a particular place in the aftermath of great war and violence influences your worldview and politics, and how that worldview and politics changes over time, all centered on incredibly well-written women characters from childhood to adulthood, read The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
if you like a complex fleshed-out world with history, religion, customs, politics that are all richly rendered in an almost anthropological way, read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
if you like a cast of characters who are misfits, outsiders, people deemed “freaks” by society written with a deep romantic streak and a moral frustration with the cruelty of mainstream culture, plus a tenderness and respect for the interior lives of children (and especially if you are an Arya fan), read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
if you like seeing a group of people thrown together by circumstance become unlikely allies and work together in a complex examination of power and morality plus some pretty weird sex, read Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
if you like suicidal, depressed knights grappling with the inherent violence within, read literally any Lancelot story (I started with Chrétien de Troyes, but there's a whole world)
if you like the Winterfell murder mystery and all the very strange characters involved, read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
if you like a big cast of characters with complex emotional lives and also you love Jon doing agrarian economics so the Night's Watch can survive winter, read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
if you like figuring out what the hell Littlefinger's financial schemes are and plumbing the depths of court intrigue to uncover a secret, read Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura
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