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The Anubis GatesSeries
series3 books1983
Time travel.
“The plot concerns an English professor who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th century.”
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Gemma DoyleSeries
series4 books2003
About coming of age and friendship.
Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →
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.”
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Start with City of Bones →
includes The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours, Magnus Bane, The Eldest Curses, The Dark Artifices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
The Gilded WolvesSeries
series3 books2019
About magical artifacts and found family, set in europe.
“The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets.”
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Sword of the Rightful KingNovel
Jane Yolenstandalone novel2003
Tense in tone, set in medieval.
The Raven KingSeries
series13 books1996
About fae.
“Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reintroduces magic to an alternate nineteenth-century England, centering on the prickly rivalry between the two title magicians as they revive a lost English tradition.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Ladies of Grace Adieu →