Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
2015
Books with the “Found Family” trope
Lonely characters grow close over time and become a real family for one another.
Characters and archetypes · Found Family
Books with this trope
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
2006
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
2010
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
1992
Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin
2020
The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien
1954
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
1964
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
1990
Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
2017
The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne
2021
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward
2005
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
1986
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
2005
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
2011
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
1986
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
2023
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
2017
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh
2022
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
2009
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
2009
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
2010
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
1998
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
2020
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
2003
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
2005
Looking for Alaska
John Green
2005
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
1967
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
2008
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken
2012
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater
2012
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
2017
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
2017
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
1992
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
1940
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
2004
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
1875
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
2017
The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
2020
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
2022
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
2022
The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst
2024
Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
2022
The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec
2021
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
1984
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley
1982
Sabriel
Garth Nix
1995
Blood Song
Anthony Ryan
2011
The Ninth Rain
Jen Williams
2017
The Unspoken Name
A. K. Larkwood
2020
Vicious
V. E. Schwab
2013
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman
2012
Priest of Bones
Peter McLean
2018
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
2009
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
2020
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
2020
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
2016
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
1969
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
2012
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas
2016
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto
2023
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
2023
The Bodyguard
Katherine Center
2022
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
2014
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2017
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
2020
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
2016
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
1999
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
1838
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Theodora Goss
2017
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
1908
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
1908
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
2008
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
2014
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
2022
Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer
2023
The Gilded Wolves
Roshani Chokshi
2019
Foundryside
Robert Jackson Bennett
2018
Red Sister
Mark Lawrence
2017
The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah
2022
The Wolf Den
Elodie Harper
2021
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
1985
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
1959
A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead
2011
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1929
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
2022
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
2007
Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young
2018
Happy Place
Emily Henry
2023
Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score
2022
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey
2021
The Simple Wild
K.A. Tucker
2018
Natural Born Charmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
2007
Vision in White
Nora Roberts
2009
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
2014
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
2020
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix
2021
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Morally Grey CharacterRelated tropes
Unreliable Narrator
The person telling the story hides the truth, is biased, or cannot be trusted about what is really happening.
Byronic Hero
A brooding, cynical, and magnetic rebel haunted by a dark secret from his past.
Morally Grey Character
A character who is not a villain but will cross ethical lines to reach their goal.
Mad Scientist
A scientist whose obsession with knowledge makes them break nature's or humanity's rules.