Books like “The Raven Boys”

What to read after “The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy” and “Paranormal fiction”
Yadriel, a trans boy, wants his traditional family to accept him as a brujo. When his initiation goes wrong he raises the ghost of a murdered classmate, and together they search for answers while Yadriel hides the truth from everyone he loves.
2
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper · 1973
Similar plot moves: “Prophecy” and “Quest”
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton learns that he is the last of the Old Ones, born to hold back the Dark. As midwinter closes over the Thames valley, he must gather the six Signs of Light before the Rider and his powers can rise. A tale of the Light's long war against the Dark.
3
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Coming of Age
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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An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson · 2017
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Quest
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.
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Sabriel
Garth Nix · 1995
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
Sabriel has grown up safely across the Wall, far from the Old Kingdom and its dead. When her father, the Abhorsen, vanishes, she crosses into a land where the dead walk and takes up his bells and his duty. With a free magic creature and a trapped soldier, she sets out to find him.
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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik · 2020
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Prophecy
- Found Family
The Scholomance is a magic school with no teachers, where students learn spells while monsters pick them off between lessons. Galadriel 'El' Higgins, feared for the dark power a prophecy says she will wield, has to survive to graduation and the hungry things waiting in the dark.
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Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings · 1982
Shared in the plot: search, drawn
Garion grows up on a quiet Sendarian farm, unaware of the forces watching him. When a mysterious storyteller and a royal sorceress arrive, he is drawn into a search for a stolen artefact, travelling with a company that hides its true purpose from him. The old prophecy of the Belgariad has begun to move.
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Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Star-Crossed Lovers
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh · 2022
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Found Family
- Quest
Mina takes her brother's place as the sacrifice meant to calm the Sea God, and wakes in the realm of spirits. There she searches for the god, hoping to save her village and the boy who has waited for her.
10
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley · 1982
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Found Family
- Coming of Age
Harry Crewe, newly orphaned, travels to a remote outpost on the Darian border to live with her brother. Corlath, king of the Free Hillfolk, carries her away from the fort, and she finds an old magic waking in her blood. Caught between two peoples, she must decide where she belongs.
11
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
Shared in the plot: loved, danger, drawn
- Star-Crossed Lovers
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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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Prophecy” and “Found Family”
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.