Books like “City of Bones”

What to read after “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
After her mother's death, Bree Matthews joins an early college program at UNC and witnesses a demon attack that no one else remembers. Pulled into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights, she hunts for the truth behind the magic that erased her memory.
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Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
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.
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Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Love Triangle
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.
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Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Secret Society”
Mare lives in a world split by blood: silver elites with powers and powerless reds. When a dangerous ability of her own is exposed, the royal family hides her in their palace, where she becomes a pawn in two secret wars.
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An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Forbidden Love”
- Love Triangle
- Forbidden Love
Under the Martial Empire, Laia's brother is arrested as a traitor, so she goes undercover as a slave in a brutal military academy to spy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a reluctant soldier whose future is bound to the regime she works against.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- 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.
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Storm Front
Jim Butcher · 2000
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard, listed in the phone book and usually broke. When the police consult him on a double murder, he finds a sorcerer using black magic in a city where vampires and crime bosses all want a piece of the investigation.
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Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire · 2009
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Half-fae changeling October 'Toby' Daye wants nothing to do with Faerie after fourteen years away from it. When a fae noble is murdered and binds Toby with a dying curse to find the killer, she is pulled back into the dangerous politics of the local faerie court.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Forbidden Love
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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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Juno Dawson · 2022
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
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.