Books like “Soulless”

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

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A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Werewolves” and “Vampires”
- Werewolves
- Vampires
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
2
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare · 2010
From the same world: “Steampunk”
- Steampunk
- Victorian London Atmosphere
In Victorian London, Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters and learns she is a shape-shifter. Rescued by the Shadowhunters, she is drawn into a fight against a powerful enemy while navigating her feelings for two brothers, Will and Jem.
3
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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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Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
5
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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.
6
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews · 2007
From the same world: “Werewolves” and “Vampires”
- Werewolves
- Vampires
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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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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.
8
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern · 2011
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
A black-and-white circus arrives without warning and opens only at night. Behind its rivalry of illusions stand two young magicians, Celia and Marco, bound by a contest neither chose. As they fall in love, the circus and everyone in it becomes the stakes.
9
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
10
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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.
11
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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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Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan · 2013
Similar atmosphere: “Comedy of Manners”
- Comedy of Manners
Rachel Chu, an economics professor in New York, travels to Singapore for the summer wedding of her boyfriend's best friend. There she learns that Nick's family is one of the wealthiest in Asia, and that his mother has already judged her unsuitable. A comic look at money, family and the marriage market.