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- All Souls
series5 books2011
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A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.
- The Infernal Devices
series5 books2010
part of The Mortal Instruments
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The Infernal Devices is a trilogy by author Cassandra Clare, centring on a race called the Shadowhunters introduced in her The Mortal Instruments series. The trilogy is a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments series. Cassandra Clare has stated that the two series are able to be read in any order, but it is best to read them in publication order.
- The Sanctuary of the White Friars
series2 books2015
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Michael Moorcock's Sanctuary of the White Friars opens with The Whispering Swarm, in which a monk named Friar Isidore draws a character named Michael into Alsacia, a hidden sanctuary tucked into the secret heart of London. The sequel, The Woods of Arcady, continues following that same character between the ordinary world and this concealed refuge. It's late-period Moorcock blending autobiographical framing with his long-running multiverse concerns.
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
series2 books2020
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Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London is set in a slightly alternate 1983 London, where Susan Arkshaw searches for the father she's never met. Her path crosses with Merlin, a left-handed bookseller — one of the fighting branch of an extended family of magical booksellers who police the mythic Old World where it intrudes on the modern one — who is pursuing his own hunt for the entity behind his mother's death. As their separate investigations tangle together, Susan's ordinary-seeming clues turn out to lead somewhere much stranger. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath continues their story.
- The Last Hours
series4 books2019
part of The Mortal Instruments
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Cassandra Clare's The Last Hours opens with Chain of Gold, set in 1903 London among the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, part of the wider Shadowhunter Chronicles that includes The Mortal Instruments. Continuing the saga's tradition of chapter epigraphs drawn from Victorian and Edwardian poetry, the trilogy concludes across Chain of Iron and Chain of Thorns.
- Practical Magic
series4 books1995
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Practical Magic follows sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, raised by witch aunts in Massachusetts after their parents' deaths, as they try — and fail — to outrun both magic and love, with Sally's daughter Kylie later inheriting the family's uncanny "Sight." Alice Hoffman returned to the 1995 original decades later, adding two prequels (The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons) and a direct sequel (The Book of Magic) that follow the Owens family's inheritance back and forward across generations.
- Dreamhunter Duet
series2 books2005
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Dreamhunter (2005) and Dreamquake (2007) are two fantasy novels, written by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox. The former title was nominated for Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2006, and was an American Library Association best book of 2007. Dreamquake received recognition as an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award in 2008. The U.K. title of Dreamhunter is The Rainbow Opera.
- Checquy Files
series4 books2012
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The Rook opens Daniel O'Malley's Checquy Files with Myfanwy Thomas waking up with no memory, surrounded by dead bodies and a letter from her former self explaining that she runs a secretive British agency defending the country from supernatural threats. She has to reconstruct her identity and hunt a traitor inside the organization while keeping up appearances at a job she can no longer remember how to do. The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.
- Onyx Court
series7 books2008
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Marie Brennan's Onyx Court series is set in a faerie court hidden beneath London, ruled across the centuries by successive fae monarchs shadowing the human city above. It opens with Midnight Never Come, set in Elizabethan England under Elizabeth I's faerie counterpart Invidiana, and continues across later centuries through In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire.
- The Kendra Chronicles
series5 books2007
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Alex Flinn's Kendra Chronicles opens with Beastly, a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast in which a wealthy, shallow New York teenager is transformed into a monster by a witch's curse and has two years to break the spell by earning real love. 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. It's YA fairy-tale retelling built around one curse and its ripple effects rather than a continuing plot across all volumes.
- A Temptation of Angels
Michelle Zinkstandalone novel2012
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After seeing her parents murdered, sixteen-year-old Helen Cartwright learns she is one of three remaining angelic descendents charged with protecting the world, but nothing can save her from being torn between new friend and fellow Keeper Griffin and childhood friend Raum, who has joined forces with her parents' killers.
- Magnus Bane
series14 books2013
part of The Mortal Instruments
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The Bane Chronicles is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Magnus Bane from Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. The novellas are co-written by Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan. Release of the novellas began in April 2013 in e-book and audio versions, and were released in a combined print edition in November 2014. The Bane Chronicles has appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Children's Books a number of times beginning in July 2013.
- Dominion of the Fallen
series16 books2015
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The House of Shattered Wings opens Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen in a Paris devastated by a magical war between rival Houses of fallen angels, its streets and ruins still haunted by the fighting. The series follows uneasy alliances within House Silverspires as its members contend with old secrets and Annamese magic traditions colliding with European angelic power politics. It continues across further novels and a number of shorter linked stories.
