Books like “Guilty Pleasures”

What to read after “Guilty Pleasures” by Laurell K. Hamilton: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Storm Front
Jim Butcher · 2000
From the same world: “Noir” and “Urban Fantasy”
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.
2
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2016
From the same world: “Noir” and “Vampires”
In a Mexico City policed against vampires, street kid Domingo meets Atl, a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers running from a rival clan. He is drawn to her despite the danger, and together they try to leave the city before the vampires hunting her catch up.
3
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.
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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.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- 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.
6
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “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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Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
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.
8
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.
9
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Secret Society
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.
10
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Peter Grant, a London police officer, discovers that magic is real when he interviews a ghost about a headless corpse. He is assigned to a small, secret unit of the Metropolitan Police that deals with supernatural crime, and takes on a case that stirs up the city's old spirits.
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- 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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The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice · 1985
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampire who once narrated Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story: a boy of the Auvergne who fled to Paris for the stage, was taken by an ancient vampire, and rose to become a rock star, awakening forces older than any of his kind.