Need a list of fantasy books that have thievery in them

[Richards]

From a D&D-fiction perspective, I assume Gary Gygax's "Gord the Rogue" series of novels is thief-related. (I haven't read any of them.) Plus, there's any Dragonlance novel with at least one kender in it.

Johnathan

 

[NiTessine]

The Forgotten Realms Rogues series: Alabaster Staff by Edward Bolme, Black Bouquet by Richard Lee Byers, Crimson Gold by Voronica Whitney-Robinson and Yellow Silk by Don Bassingthwaite.

 

[dreaded_beast]

Any Dragonlance novel that features Kender, although the Kender may take offense to being considered thieves.

 

[jgbrowning]

Fafhred (?) and the Gray Mouser books by Lieber. Lots of thieving going on there.

joe b.

 

[WayneLigon]

The two Shadowspawn novels by Andrew Offutt (spin off of the Thieve's World books), Shadowspawn and Shadow of Sorcery.

Nift the Lean, The Incompleat Nifft and The A'Rak by Michael Shea
Nightfall and (soon) The Return of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert
The Assassins of Tamurin by S. D. Tower
Assassin Fantastic ed. by Martin Harry Greenberg

 

[drnuncheon]

I'm trying to remember a trilogy I read in the past couple of years which involves a young man somewhat accidentally apprenticed to a master thief and spy... but I can't remember who it was OR the title...

Sounds like Lynn Flewelling's Luck in the Shadows and Stalking Darkness - the first two books were the same plotline while the third, Traitor Moon, was a different story with the same characters. (She also wrote two stories set in the same world, The Bone Doll's Twin and The Hidden Warrior, that were much darker, and also better written.)

There's also Thief's Gamble, the author of which escapes me.

Moving away from fantasy, there's the Walter Jon Williams 'Divertimenti' books, which have a licensed burglar as the main character. And going into fairy tales, don't forget about Jack, of beanstalk fame.

J

 

[WayneLigon]

There's also Thief's Gamble, the author of which escapes me.

The Thief's Gamble Juliet E. McKenna
The Swordsman's Oath, The Gambler's Fortune, The Warrior's Bond, The Assassin's Edge are the other books in the series; can't really say how much actual thieving goes on in them.

 

[maransreth]

The Nightrunner series (Luck in Shadows, Stalking Darkness & Traitor's Moon) by Lynn Flewelling is what someone mentioned earlier about an apprentice thief and a master rogue.

City of Ravens by Richard Baker is a tale of a classic rogue who also has some magical ability that he uses to full effect.

Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea is going back a decade or 2 but is classical thievery at its best.

The Thief's Gamble by Juliet McKenna and the rest of the Einarinn series showcases thieves every now and then through the books.

They are the main ones I can think of at the moment

 

[random user]

It's already been mentioned, but Silk is among my favorite characters ever (not just thieves). He's from the Belgariad Series, by David Eddings. The first book is Pawn of Prophecy.

 

[Seonaid]

Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey. Been a while since I read it, though, so it's entirely possible that there's not much thieving going on, other than the first few pages.