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series2 books1967

completed

Horror, tense in tone, about demons, set in north america.

“Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy.”
from the catalogue

Start with Rosemary's Baby →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

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

The Dresden FilesSeries

series56 books2000

Urban fantasy, about wizards, set in north america.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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Start with Welcome to the Jungle →

CrashNovel

J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1973

Literary & general, dark in tone, about madness and addiction.

RatsSeries

series4 books1974

completed

Horror, dark and tense in tone, about survival.

“The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror.”
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Start with The Rats →

Rivers of LondonSeries

series32 books2011

Urban fantasy and mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, set in 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.”
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Start with Rivers of London →

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