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series2 books2002

Portal fantasy and horror, eerie in tone.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
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series3 books2010

Urban fantasy, about curses, set in north america and our world.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
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Start with White Cat →

The Tears of the SalamanderNovel

Peter Dickinsonstandalone novel2003

Set in our world and europe.

“Mount Etna towers above the remote villa where Alfredo lives with his uncle after a fire wipes out his family.”
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The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

includes Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Dark Artifices, Magnus Bane, The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours, The Eldest Curses

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The WitchesNovel

Roald Dahlstandalone novel1983

Dark fantasy, about witches and survival, set in british isles.

“A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country.”
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