Find your next SF/F read by mood

series3 books2009

Funny in tone.

“The comic horror trilogy continues through Hell's Bells and The Creeps.”
from the catalogue

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

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

The 5 Lords of PainSeries

series5 books2010

Set in secondary world.

Start with The Lord of the Mountain →

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Dark-HunterSeries

series65 books2000

Paranormal romance.

“Kenyon began writing the series in 1986 in horror, fantasy and science fiction magazines.”
from the catalogue

Start with Fantasy Lover →

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