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Books like Edinburgh Nights: 9 series to read next

Edinburgh Nights is urban fantasy and fantasy, set in british isles and big city. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Edinburgh Nights is 5 books, 2021–2025.

“T. L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights series opens with The Library of the Dead, set in a dystopian reimagining of Edinburgh where magic and decline sit over the recognizable city.”
from the catalogue description

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Rivers of London
Shades of London
Black Dragon
The Lynburn Legacy
The Dark Is Rising
Shadow Police / Detective Inspector James Quill
Nightside
Checquy Files
Harper Blaine / Greywalker

Rivers of LondonSeries

seriesBen Aaronovitch32 books2011

Urban fantasy and mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The author Ben Aaronovitch has subsequently written nine books in the Peter Grant Series, plus accompanying novellas, short stories, comics and graphic novels.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Rivers of London →

Shades of LondonSeries

seriesMaureen Johnson4 books2011

Start with The Boy in the Smoke →

Black DragonSeries

seriesR. A. MacAvoy2 books1983

About dragons and friendship, set in our world and north america.

Start with Tea with the Black Dragon →

The Lynburn LegacySeries

seriesSarah Rees Brennan3 books2012

Set in small town.

“There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years.”
from the catalogue description of Unspoken

Start with Unspoken →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Shadow Police / Detective Inspector James QuillSeries

seriesPaul Cornell3 books2012

Urban fantasy, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and british isles.

“Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career.”
from the catalogue description of London Falling

Start with London Falling →

NightsideSeries

seriesSimon R. Green23 books2003

Urban fantasy, dark in tone, set in contemporary and big city.

“Simon R. Green's noir fantasy series, beginning with Something from the Nightside, follows Taylor deeper into the district's politics and his own mysterious origins across fourteen novels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Something from the Nightside →

Checquy FilesSeries

seriesDaniel O'Malley4 books2012

Urban fantasy and fantasy, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Rook →

Harper Blaine / GreywalkerSeries

seriesKat Richardson11 books2006

Set in north america.

“Following a savage, near-fatal attack, private detective Harper Blaine discovers that she has become a Greywalker, and now has the ability to move between the ordinary world and a mysterious, cross-over zone populated by monsters.”
from the catalogue description of Greywalker

Start with Greywalker →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Edinburgh Nights?: Rivers of London — the closest match to Edinburgh Nights on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Edinburgh Nights?: The Library of the Dead. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Edinburgh Nights.
How big is Edinburgh Nights?: Edinburgh Nights is 5 books, 2021–2025.

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