What to read after “Blood and Chocolate” by Annette Curtis Klause: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.
Grace has watched a yellow-eyed wolf in the woods behind her house for years. When a wounded boy named Sam appears at her door, she learns that the wolves of Mercy Falls are people in winter and that Sam will soon lose his human form for good. Their romance grows as the cold closes in.
Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf in existence, and she has walked away from the pack to build a quiet life in Toronto with a human boyfriend. When the pack needs her against a rogue uprising, she returns to the estate and to Clay, the man who changed her, and has to decide what she really wants.
Ox Matheson grows up lonely in a small Oregon town until the Bennett family moves in down the road and he learns they are werewolves. He becomes part of their pack and falls for Joe, the youngest son. Years later a murder tears them apart, and Ox has to find his own strength when Joe returns.
Mercy Thompson is a coyote shapeshifter who fixes cars in Washington State and keeps her distance from the local werewolf pack. A runaway teenage werewolf turns up at her shop, and his murder pulls her into pack politics, vampire deals and a hunt for whoever is preying on the supernatural community.
Kitty Norville hosts a late-night radio show about the supernatural in Denver, and she is a werewolf hiding her nature from most of her listeners. When a caller's story draws the attention of her pack and a killer, Kitty has to decide how much of her life she is willing to show.
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
Taryn Warner is a latent wolf shifter who cannot shift. Her father, a pack alpha, has arranged for her to mate a sadistic alpha she despises. Trey Coleman, alpha of the Phoenix Pack, needs allies against his uncle, so he offers her a deal: she will publicly claim to be his true mate, and he will protect her from the arranged mating. Their temporary bond soon becomes difficult to fake.
Sascha Duncan is a Psy, raised to suppress emotion and obey the telepathic Council. Lucas Hunter, alpha of a leopard changeling pack, needs her help to catch a killer and recognizes her as his mate. Their bond breaks every rule of her people, and hiding it could cost them both everything.
Misery Lark, a Vampyre outcast, agrees to marry Alpha werewolf Lowe Moreland to keep a fragile peace between their species. She has her own reason for entering Were territory, but neither expects the mate bond that forms between them or how much it complicates their alliance.
After her mother's death, Kennedy Waters is pulled into a world of ghosts and demons when she learns her family belonged to the Legion, a secret society sworn to fight them. With three brothers as her allies, she must help close a threat that killed her mother and is still hunting her.
Aislinn has always followed the rules for surviving the hidden world of faeries: never draw their attention, never let them know she can see them. Then the Summer King begins to court her, sure she is the queen he has been searching for, while her human friend Seth refuses to let her face the fae alone.
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.
Lara Jean keeps private love letters to the boys she has liked, never meaning to send them. When the letters are mailed, she pretends to date one of the recipients to save face, and the game begins to feel real.
Anna is sent to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year, though she barely speaks French and misses home. There she falls in with a circle of friends and develops feelings for Étienne, a charming classmate who is already taken. Their closeness makes staying just friends harder every day.
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster with no soul, which makes her immune to the supernatural. When a rogue vampire attacks her in steampunk London and a werewolf lord is sent to investigate, the two uncover a plot against the city's vampires and werewolves—and a mutual attraction neither of them expected.
In a future kingdom divided into castes, thirty-five girls are chosen to compete for the crown. America Singer enters only for the money, torn between a secret love back home and the young prince she is slowly getting to know.
Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is keeping two secrets: he is gay, and he is falling for an anonymous classmate online. When someone discovers his emails and threatens to expose him, Simon has to navigate friendships, family, and first love while trying to find out who Blue really is.
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.
Japanese American teenager Izumi Tanaka has never felt she belongs. Then she learns that her father, whom she has never met, is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi travels to Tokyo to meet her royal family, where a strict bodyguard and endless protocol complicate her new life.
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
MacKayla Lane travels to Ireland after her sister is murdered and finds she can see the fae, a power that makes her a target. To find the killer and stay alive she turns to Jericho Barrons, a secretive man whose help comes at a price and whose motives she cannot read.
Start with “Shiver”, “Bitten”, “Wolfsong”: they are the closest to “Blood and Chocolate” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “Blood and Chocolate” these are Werewolves, Coming of Age, Forbidden Love), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “Shiver”, “Bitten”, “Wolfsong”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
