Books like “Unbreakable”

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

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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.
2
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
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.
3
Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Love Triangle
Aislinn has always followed the rules for surviving the hidden world of faeries: never draw their attention, never let them know she can see them. Then the Summer King begins to court her, sure she is the queen he has been searching for, while her human friend Seth refuses to let her face the fae alone.
4
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
From the same world: “Ghost Story”
- Ghost Story
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.
5
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Ghost Story” and “Urban Fantasy”
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.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
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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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman · 2008
From the same world: “Ghost Story”
- Ghost Story
- Secret Society
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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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.
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Chosen One
Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old who keeps getting expelled, learns he is a demigod and is accused of stealing Zeus's master bolt. With Annabeth and Grover he crosses America to return it, facing monsters and gods to stop a war on Olympus.
10
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
- Secret Society
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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A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Persephone is a young journalist who wants an ordinary life, away from her mother Demeter's plans. At a nightclub she meets Hades, the god of the dead, and loses a wager that binds her to his realm. She must learn to grow life in the underworld, or surrender to a love she was warned against.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.