Books like “The Gilded Wolves”

What to read after “The Gilded Wolves” by Roshani Chokshi: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Foundryside
Robert Jackson Bennett · 2018
Shared in the plot: steal, magic
Sancia Grado is a thief in Tevanne, a city where scribing commands objects to obey written orders. Hired to steal a key, she finds it holds power that could break the four merchant houses' grip on magic, and the houses will kill to keep that power buried.
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Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Heist” and “Found Family”
A street criminal offers six dangerous outcasts a fortune to break into an impregnable fortress and rescue a captive inventor. The heist needs a plan no one has tried before, and none of the crew trusts the others.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch · 2006
Similar plot moves: “Heist” and “Found Family”
In a city of canals and thieves, Locke Lamora leads a small band of con artists who rob the nobility. A hidden power turns the tables, and the crew find themselves caught in a scheme far larger than any of their own.
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Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- 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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These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Historical fantasy”
- Morally Grey Character
In 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to rival gangs and former lovers sworn to hate each other. When a madness spreads through the city and people tear themselves apart, the two must work together to find its cause, even as their families demand blood.
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Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson · 2006
Similar plot moves: “Heist” and “Morally Grey Character”
- Heist
- Morally Grey Character
In an ash-covered empire, a street thief is trained in allomancy, the magic of burning metals. She joins a crew planning to overthrow the immortal Lord Ruler, though the prophecy around her may be a lie.
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Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Secret Society” and “Found Family”
- Secret Society
- Found Family
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.
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Theodora Goss · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Secret Society” and “Found Family”
- Secret Society
- Found Family
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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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
Shared in the plot: society, magic, secret
- 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.
10
Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young · 2018
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Found Family
Eelyn is a warrior of the Aska clan, raised to fight the rival Riki in a war older than anyone remembers. Captured and forced to live among her enemies, she begins to see them as people, and finds herself drawn to a young man she was always taught to kill.
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The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2012
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- 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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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
Similar plot moves: “Secret Society” and “Found Family”
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.