I want to hear about your favorite books that include heists as a major element. Bonus points if it’s set in a fantasy, sci-fi, or non-contemporary setting. (Basically I want something like Gentleman Bastards that’s not just rereading Gentleman Bastards)
Mistborn: The Final Empire! If I’m not mistaken, “heist book in fantasy setting” is literally one of the main things that inspired Brandon Sanderson to write this.
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I suggested the book in your original post. I’m lazy and don’t know how to read. Sorry. But I second Six of Crows!
6 of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - YA heist novel in fantasy (17th century?) Amsterdam.
Have you read Brent Weeks books? He wrote a trilogy called the Night Angel trilogy, and just released a fourth novel called Nemesis. I admittedly haven’t finished the book yet, but I’m 75% through it and find it so much better than than the original three books. His writing has improved substantially over the years (side note: the Lightbringer series is incredible).
But all this is to say that Nemesis is about a heist. Weeks wanted to write a book about a heist and to try first person perspective, and Nemesis is what came from that.
I have not! I’m guessing Nemesis can’t really be read as a standalone? I’ll look into it regardless
Mistborn?
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Sci-Fi heist.
Patrick Weeks’ Rogues of the Republic series is a pretty good heist series. It is kindle only though.
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. Our protagonist thief accidentally steals a talking key, but I don’t want to spoil too much. Plus it’s been a while so I don’t remember a lot of details. I liked how the magic was like logical programming. How do you make a carriage sitting on an even surface roll forward? Tell it that it’s now on an incline.
Edit: Oops. Flipped the author’s name
Oh yeah, I’ve read that one before. Definitely a really neat magic system.
