Books like “Clockwork Angel”

What to read after “Clockwork Angel” 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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Soulless
Gail Carriger · 2009
From the same world: “Steampunk”
- Steampunk
- Victorian London Atmosphere
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.
2
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Secret Society”
- Love Triangle
- 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”
- Love Triangle
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 Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Theodora Goss · 2017
Same genre: “Fantasy”
Mary Jekyll, orphaned and poor, sets out to find her father's old colleague, the missing Doctor Hyde. Instead she gathers a family of young women who are the daughters or creations of famous scientists, from Moreau and Jekyll to Rappaccini. Together they investigate a series of murders in Victorian London.
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
Shared in the plot: shadow, drawn, learn
- Love Triangle
- Secret Society
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.
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Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
Shared in the plot: fight, brother, learn
- Love Triangle
- Secret Society
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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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Secret Society”
- Love Triangle
- Secret Society
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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Perdido Street Station
China Miéville · 2000
From the same world: “Steampunk”
- Steampunk
In the vast industrial city of New Crobuzon, the scientist Isaac agrees to restore flight to a creature who has lost its wings. The experiment releases something that feeds on dreams and minds, and the city is soon sliding toward disaster.
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A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas · 2016
Similar setting: “Victorian London Atmosphere”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- Found Family
Too clever for Victorian society and blamed when three people die, Charlotte Holmes flees to London and takes the name Sherlock Holmes. With a kind widow, a police inspector and a man who loves her, she works the case while hiding who she really is.
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The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Found Family”
- Found Family
Blue has grown up in a house of psychics and is warned she will cause her true love's death. Drawn into the search for a lost Welsh king with a group of boys from a prestigious school, she finds her life tangled with theirs and with their dangerous families.
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The Gilded Wolves
Roshani Chokshi · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Secret Society” and “Found Family”
- Secret Society
- Found Family
Paris, 1889. Severin Montagnet-Alarie, a hotelier and treasure-hunter, is offered the chance to reclaim the inheritance his family was denied. To earn it he must assemble a crew and steal an ancient artifact, a job that takes them into the secret society that rules the city's magic.
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Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fiction”
- Love Triangle
Celaena Sardothien, the kingdom's most notorious assassin, is dragged from a salt mine to compete in a contest for the king. Victory would buy her freedom, but the court is full of plots and her rivals will do anything. Between a prince and a guardsman, she searches for who she can trust.