Books like “Fallen”

What to read after “Fallen” by Lauren Kate: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead · 2007
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, trained to guard her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. After two years on the run, they are returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where Rose falls for her instructor and the school's wards hide dangerous secrets.
2
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick · 2009
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Nora Grey keeps her head down until her biology partner, the aloof Patch, starts appearing wherever she goes. He knows too much, says too little, and seems to want her for reasons he will not name. Falling for him means choosing a side in a fallen angel's ancient struggle.
3
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
- Love Triangle
Miles Halter leaves his quiet Florida home for a boarding school in Alabama, drawn by the last words of famous people. There he joins a tight circle of friends, falls for the reckless Alaska Young, and is forced to reckon with loss and guilt.
4
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
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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The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 2013
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
- Love Triangle
Every year two children are taken to the School for Good and Evil, one to train as a hero and one as a villain. Best friends Sophie and Agatha are sure they know which is which, but the school has its own plans for them.
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire · 2016
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Boarding School
Children who have returned from magical worlds struggle to readjust, so Eleanor West's home gives them somewhere to belong. When Nancy arrives from the Halls of the Dead, she finds the school hiding its own dangers and a mystery that threatens her new friends.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
Same genre: “Paranormal romance”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
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.
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An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- 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.
9
An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Isobel paints portraits for the fae, whose kind cannot create art themselves. When she paints mortal sorrow into the face of the autumn prince, she commits a crime that could cost her life. He carries her to his court for judgment, and their mutual distrust slowly turns into something forbidden.
10
Matched
Ally Condie · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Star-Crossed Lovers”
In a society where the Officials choose who you love, Cassia is matched with her best friend, until a mistake shows her another face. Torn between two futures, she begins to question the system that decides everything for her.
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Forbidden Love
Karou studies art in Prague and fills her sketchbooks with monsters, the same strange creatures who raised her. Running errands for her guardian, she does not know she stands between two warring peoples. When an angel named Akiva scorches the doors she travels through, her hidden life begins to fall apart.
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
Shared in the plot: shadow, drawn
- Love Triangle
- Forbidden Love
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.