Check out the Fifth Season by N K Jemisin. Its a fantasy story from a subaltern point of view and I like it a lot. The setting somewhat reminds me of ATLA also (but with implications explored in more detail).
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Anything by Terry Pratchett
The Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
I think book 4 or 5 introduces the capitalist imperialist country and is basically the authors way of critiquing that. It's got a little bit of lib in it but you gotta search hard. Just a really good book series overall, written by an anthropologist and it really shows.
Midnight tides or book 5 yeah introduces the city of lether with the best duo of tehol n bug.
I definitely 2nd this recommendation. Though fair warning, literally nothing is explained and it is up to you to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I personally think its very much worth the effort, nothing is overly complex it just has many many moving parts and you get the perspective of most of the various factions and characters in the story.
Havent rsad but Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
If you want pleasant revolts why not try Abercrombie's age of madness trilogy. The revolt happens in the second book.
Technically it's the third trilogy in the the first law universe, so you can read the first law trilogy first, and then the standalone trilogy (named because the three books aren't connected to each other but set the world building for the age madness).
There's no good kings here, everyone is different stains of bad. And anyone who tries to be good doesn't last long.
Many content warnings for the series though, SA, graphic violence, graphic everything really.