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

Gemma DoyleSeries

series4 books2003

About coming of age and friendship, set in british isles and 19th century.

Start with A Great and Terrible Beauty →

The Kendra ChroniclesSeries

series5 books2007

Fairy tale retelling, about witches, set in our world and contemporary.

“Later books widen the cast to other characters from that story — Lindy, the witch Kendra herself — while staying inside the same fairy-tale-updated-to-Manhattan premise.”
from the catalogue

Start with Beastly →

Five Children UniverseSeries

series27 books1902

completed

Set in early 20th century and british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue

Start with Five Children and It →

WildwoodSeries

series2 books2006

About coming of age.

“Marillier builds the story from Romanian folklore and fairy-tale motifs, following Jena as she tries to protect her family and the world beyond the portal.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wildwood Dancing →

BelladonnaSeries

series4 books2022

Set in secondary world.

“Set in a haunted, death-adjacent version of the era, it follows an orphaned heiress entangled with Death itself as she investigates the murders and mysteries surrounding her inherited estate.”
from the catalogue

Start with Belladonna →

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