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series4 books2011

“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 →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, 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

Lords of the Underworld UniverseSeries

series28 books2008

Set in contemporary.

Start with The Darkest Night →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

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

Forbidden TearsSeries

series3 books2023

Fantasy.

“Years later, just as Brianna seeks a fresh start, the nightmare returns — and so does Cameron.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ruled by Fate →

SamariaSeries

series9 books1996

Science fantasy.

Start with Archangel →

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