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series11 books2006

Dark and tense in tone, about fae, set in contemporary.

universe70 books2007

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

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

Checquy FilesSeries

series4 books2012

Fantasy, set in contemporary.

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

Start with The Rook →

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Fantasy, emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia

The Green Bone SagaSeries

series5 books2017

Fantasy, about political intrigue and organized crime, set in secondary world.

“A prequel novella, The Jade Setter of Janloon, was released in 2022; and a collection of short stories, Jade Shards, was released in 2023.”
from the catalogue

Start with Jade City →

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