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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 demons.
Start with Of Vampires—Living and Not So Living →
Meredith GentrySeries
series10 books2000
Paranormal romance, about fae and court intrigue, set in our world.
“The first book in the series, A Kiss of Shadows, was released by Del Rey on October 3, 2000.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Kiss of Shadows →
Alif the UnseenNovel
G. Willow Wilsonstandalone novel2012
Cyberpunk and science fiction, about artificial intelligence, set in middle east.
“In the novel, a Middle Eastern hacker named Alif discovers a book of djinn tales which may lead to a new age of quantum computing.”
from the catalogue
Дозоры / WatchSeries
series6 books1998
Dark in tone, set in eastern europe.
“Each book follows the Night Watch magician Anton Gorodetsky through a case that keeps threatening to unbalance that truce for good.”
from the catalogue
Start with Night Watch →
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 Dark Artifices, The Eldest Curses, The Infernal Devices, Magnus Bane, The Last Hours, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy