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Anita BlakeSeries
series42 books1993
Dark in tone, about vampires.
“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
from the catalogue
Start with Guilty Pleasures →
The Dresden FilesSeries
series56 books2000
About wizards.
“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 HollowsSeries
series39 books2004
About witches and demons.
Start with Of Vampires—Living and Not So Living →
Jill KismetSeries
series8 books2008
Dark in tone, about demons.
Start with Night Shift →
Felix CastorSeries
series7 books2006
Dark in tone, about demons, set in british isles.
“Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels follow a freelance exorcist working London's supernatural underside, taking paying jobs to banish ghosts and bind demons in a city where the dead don't always stay quiet.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Devil You Know →
The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse
universe70 books2007
Fantasy.
“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 Dark Artifices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Magnus Bane, The Last Hours, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Infernal Devices, The Eldest Curses