Books like “Vampire Academy”

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

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Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
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.
2
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 2013
Similar setting: “Boarding School” and “Magic Academy”
Every year two children are taken to the School for Good and Evil, one to train as a hero and one as a villain. Best friends Sophie and Agatha are sure they know which is which, but the school has its own plans for them.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
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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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
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.
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Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
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.
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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
Poppy was born the Maiden, chosen and set apart, forbidden from friends, love or any life of her own. When a new guard, Hawke, enters her world, duty and desire collide for the first time. As attacks close in on the kingdom, she begins to doubt everything she was taught about the gods and her own fate.
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Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Forbidden Love
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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Looking for Alaska
John Green · 2005
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
- Love Triangle
Miles Halter leaves his quiet Florida home for a boarding school in Alabama, drawn by the last words of famous people. There he joins a tight circle of friends, falls for the reckless Alaska Young, and is forced to reckon with loss and guilt.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
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.
10
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.
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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.
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire · 2016
Similar setting: “Boarding School”
- Boarding School
Children who have returned from magical worlds struggle to readjust, so Eleanor West's home gives them somewhere to belong. When Nancy arrives from the Halls of the Dead, she finds the school hiding its own dangers and a mystery that threatens her new friends.