Books like “The Rook”

What to read after “The Rook” by Daniel O'Malley: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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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.
2
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré · 1974
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
After a mission fails, George Smiley is quietly brought back to find a Soviet mole inside British intelligence. Working from old files and a few wary colleagues, he sifts the careers of his former friends to discover which of them is the traitor.
3
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.
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Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews · 2013
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
Dominika Egorova, a Russian intelligence officer trained to seduce targets, is ordered to work against a CIA agent, Nathaniel Nash. As their operations and their feelings become entangled, both sides begin to suspect that someone is betraying the other.
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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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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Juno Dawson · 2022
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
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.
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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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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
In late-Victorian London, a shopkeeper who is also a paid spy for a foreign power is ordered to carry out a bombing. The people around him, including his wife and her vulnerable brother, are pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot control.
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The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
From the same world: “Spy Thriller”
- Spy Thriller
- Betrayal
In 1947, pregnant and unmarried Charlie follows a lead about her missing cousin to a ruined woman in London. Their search draws on the story of Eve, a spy who ran a network in occupied France during the First World War, and the betrayals that broke it.
10
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn · 2020
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
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.
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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.
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Unbreakable
Kami Garcia · 2013
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
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.