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The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
About survival and coming of age, set in secondary world.
Start with A Deadly Education →
Atlas (Olivie Blake)Series
series3 books2020
About political intrigue.
“Olivie Blake's Atlas trilogy follows six magical scholars recruited into a secretive society that grants near-limitless magical resources in exchange for a mortal cost only revealed after they've already committed.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Atlas Six →
Heir ChroniclesSeries
series5 books2006
Set in north america.
“Cinda Williams Chima's Heir Chronicles begins with The Warrior Heir, in which sixteen-year-old Jack learns he has hidden magical, warrior ancestry and is drawn into training to fight enemy wizards he didn't know existed.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Warrior Heir →
The Dresden FilesSeries
series56 books2000
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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Welcome to the Jungle →
The Legendborn CycleSeries
series3 books2020
Set in north america.
“Tracy Deonn's Legendborn Cycle follows Bree Matthews, a Black teenager who enrolls in an early-college program and stumbles into a secret society descended from Arthurian legend operating alongside her North Carolina campus.”
from the catalogue
Start with Legendborn →
Alex SternSeries
series4 books2019
Urban fantasy and dark fantasy, set in contemporary and big city.
“The opening novel, Ninth House, establishes her as an outsider gifted with the ability to see ghosts; the sequels continue her investigation into the societies' abuses and the murder that first drew her into Lethe's world.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ninth House →