Books like “A Discovery of Witches”

What to read after “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
3
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
5
Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
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Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
8
Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Juno Dawson · 2022
From the same world: “Witches” and “Urban Fantasy”
Four friends once swore an oath to Her Majesty's Royal Coven, the secret department of witches protecting Britain. Decades on, one runs the coven and one has left it, and whispers of a prophecy and a young warlock of frightening power force them to choose between tradition and what is right.
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A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Forbidden Love
Persephone is a young journalist who wants an ordinary life, away from her mother Demeter's plans. At a nightclub she meets Hades, the god of the dead, and loses a wager that binds her to his realm. She must learn to grow life in the underworld, or surrender to a love she was warned against.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin · 2019
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
Lou is a witch hiding in a city where the church hunts her kind. Reid is a captain of the witch hunters and a devoted servant of that church. When a reckless act binds them in a union neither wanted, both must choose between faith, duty and a feeling they were raised to despise.