Books like “Rivers of London”

What to read after “Rivers of London” by Ben Aaronovitch: 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: “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.
2
Slade House
David Mitchell · 2015
From the same world: “Ghost Story” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Ghost Story
- Urban Fantasy
Behind a hidden door in a narrow London alley waits a house that appears only every nine years. Guests are drawn inside and never come out the same. Linked over decades, their stories reveal what feeds the house. A haunting dark-fantasy tale about appetite and illusion.
3
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman · 2008
From the same world: “Ghost Story”
After his family is murdered, a toddler wanders into a graveyard, where its ghostly residents adopt and raise him as Nobody Owens. He grows up among the dead while the killer who took his family is still searching for him.
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The Rook
Daniel O'Malley · 2012
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
A woman wakes in a London park with no memory, surrounded by bodies, holding a letter from her former self. It explains that she is an officer in a secret agency guarding Britain from supernatural threats. To find the traitor who tried to kill her, she must live a stranger's life.
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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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Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
From the same world: “Ghost Story” and “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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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.
8
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- 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.
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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
10
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.
11
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman · 2005
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Fat Charlie Nancy learns that the father he barely knew was the spider god Anansi, and that he has a brother he never met. Spider is charming, magical and trouble, and he turns Charlie's careful life upside down while Charlie tries to bury a past that will not stay buried.
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Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
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.