Find your next SF/F read by mood

series32 books2011

Mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, about murder investigation, set in big city.

“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

Start with Rivers of London →

The Iron Druid ChroniclesSeries

series70 books2011

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“All the books, including short stories, have recorded audiobooks narrated by Luke Daniels and Christopher Ragland”
from the catalogue

Start with The Chapel Perilous →

Dragonslayer / The Chronicles of KazamSeries

series4 books2010

Whimsical in tone.

“Jasper Fforde's Chronicles of Kazam series follows Jennifer Strange, a fifteen-year-old foundling running a magical employment agency in an alternate Britain where magic is fading, who unexpectedly becomes the last Dragonslayer.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Last Dragonslayer →

The Dresden FilesSeries

series56 books2000

Set in north america and big city.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Welcome to the Jungle →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

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

The World of Skulduggery PleasantSeries

series38 books2007

Dark fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in our world.

“None require following a separate ongoing plot of their own.”
from the catalogue

Start with Skulduggery Pleasant →

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