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Hunchback Assignments / Modo: Mission ClockworkSeries

series5 books2009

About shapeshifters.

“A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show.”
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George Dower / Infernal DevicesSeries

series3 books1987

Steampunk, set in 19th century.

“Infernal Devices, Fiendish Schemes, and Grim Expectations mix dark comedy with the gears-and-brass aesthetic the series helped establish before it had a name.”
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Newbury & Hobbes InvestigationsSeries

series23 books2008

Mystery & detective.

“The Affinity Bridge, the opening novel, entangles them with a crashed automaton airship and a spreading plague of the reanimated; later books deepen Newbury's struggle with addiction and Veronica's search for her institutionalized sister.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

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.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Burton & SwinburneSeries

series35 books2010

Steampunk, set in 19th century and british isles.

Start with The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack →

Narbondo / St. Ives UniverseSeries

series18 books1978

Steampunk, set in 19th century and british isles.

Start with The Digging Leviathan →

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