Urban Fantasy

Red City

Marie Lu · Fantasy

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu.

dark romance · urban fantasy · enemies to lovers · political intrigue · morally grey character

The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune · Fantasy

Linus is an uptight caseworker with a heart of gold working for the department in charge of magical youth.

found family · urban fantasy · cozy vibes · political intrigue

Legendborn

Tracy Deonn · Fantasy

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants to escape.

dark academia · urban fantasy · found family · chosen one · magic academy

The Astral Library

Kate Quinn · Fantasy

Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?

portal fantasy · urban fantasy · quest

A Drop of Corruption

Robert Jackson Bennett · Fantasy

ONE OF BOOKPAGE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly…

cat and mouse · urban fantasy

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · Fantasy

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.

dark academia · urban fantasy · trauma recovery · ghosts · demons

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett · Fantasy

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert…

urban fantasy · cozy vibes · found family

Alchemy of Secrets

Stephanie Garber · Fantasy

It starts with a class in an old movie theater.

urban fantasy · slow burn · enemies to lovers · dark academia

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy · Horror

Ana and Reid need a break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling―with mobility,…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · urban fantasy

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold

Seanan McGuire · Fantasy

A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Selection!

urban fantasy · portal fantasy · found family · quest

In Your Dreams

Tom Holt · Fantasy

Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true?

urban fantasy · cozy vibes · workplace romance · slow burn

Victorious

V. E. Schwab · Fantasy

The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones…

urban fantasy · anti hero · found family · revenge plot

He Who Fights with Monsters

Shirtaloon · Fantasy

Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.

urban fantasy · survival

The Library of Amorlin

Kalyn Josephson · Fantasy

A brilliant con artist and a secretive librarian collide in New York Times bestselling author Kalyn Josephson’s enchanting adult fantasy debut packed…

slow burn · urban fantasy · heist · enemies to lovers · magical realism

Terror at the Gates

Scarlett St. Clair · Fantasy

*She is the beginning and the end.* *She is peace and chaos.* *She is terror knocking at the gates.* Estranged from her powerful family,…

dark romance · enemies to lovers · urban fantasy · forbidden romance · fae

A Darker Shade of Magic

V. E. Schwab · Fantasy

Welcome to Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, with one mad king―George III.

urban fantasy · enemies to lovers · magic academy · slow burn · portal fantasy

Songs of the Dead

Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy

A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe…

urban fantasy · witches · high stakes survival · found family

City of Gods and Monsters

Kayla Edwards · Fantasy

PRE-ORDER THE HOUSE OF DEVILS SERIES NOW, AND ENTER THE CITY OF ANGELTHENE.

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · fish out of water · vampires · werewolves shifters · witches

The Mortal Instruments

Cassandra Clare · Fantasy

The Mortal Instruments collection, all six internationally bestselling Shadowhunters books in one set.

urban fantasy · paranormal romance · enemies to lovers · slow burn · chosen one · found family · demons

The Bone Season

Samantha Shannon · Fantasy

In 2059, Scion has taken over most of the world's cities, promising safety for all the citizens it deems worthy and wiping out clairvoyants wherever…

urban fantasy · chosen one · high stakes survival · secret identity

Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · Fantasy

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld.

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · dark academia

Twelve Months

Jim Butcher · Fantasy

Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day—but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times…

urban fantasy · redemption arc · quest · trauma recovery

Silvercloak

L. K. Steven · Fantasy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates comes an addictive new fantasy series where magic is fueled by pleasure and pain…

urban fantasy · grimdark · enemies to lovers · slow burn · dark romance

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah E. Harkness · Fantasy

Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont.

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · forbidden romance · slow burn · witches · vampires · demons

House of Flame and Shadow

Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky…

urban fantasy · slow burn · found family · high stakes survival

Perdido Street Station

China Miéville · Fantasy

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in…

grimdark · urban fantasy · quest · cosmic horror

The Last King of Faerie

Cassandra Clare · Fantasy

The highly anticipated first book of The Wicked Powers, the final Shadowhunters trilogy!

coming of age · urban fantasy · chosen one

Oathbound

Tracy Deonn · Fantasy

Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from the friends who can’t…

dark academia · urban fantasy · found family · magic academy · chosen one

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · Fantasy

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for…

coming of age · urban fantasy · portal fantasy · found family · gothic atmosphere

The Girl with a Thousand Faces

Sunyi Dean · Fantasy

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who…

gothic atmosphere · ghosts · historical fiction · urban fantasy · trauma recovery

Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs · Fantasy

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones.

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · werewolves shifters

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

H. G. Parry · Fantasy

the ones that friends cast on each other.

urban fantasy · fae · dark academia · found family

The City & The City

China Miéville · Mystery & Thriller

Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.

psychological thriller · cat and mouse · urban fantasy · closed circle

Bound

Alexandra Blackwood · Fantasy

What if loving him meant defying an entire world that wants you dead?

forbidden romance · paranormal romance · urban fantasy · slow burn · werewolves shifters · witches

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan · Fantasy

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life.

chosen one · coming of age · quest · found family · urban fantasy

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

TJ Klune · Fantasy

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely-anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy…

found family · urban fantasy · cozy vibes · quest · secret identity

The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown · Fantasy

Bookseller Cassie Andrews feels something is missing from her life.

slow burn · opposites attract · urban fantasy · portal fantasy · magical realism · found family

Dragon Mage

Andre Norton · Fantasy

Shy realizes that she is lucky to be taken in by her grandparents after her father dies–but life above an antique store in Slade’s Corners, Wisconsin…

coming of age · urban fantasy · dragons · fish out of water · magic academy

Magic Bites

Ilona Andrews · Fantasy

Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormal kind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents her greatest challenge.

urban fantasy · paranormal romance · quest · found family · magic academy

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

Heather Fawcett · Fantasy

"When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too…

urban fantasy · slow burn · fae · opposites attract

Femme Feral

Sam Beckbessinger · Fantasy

A hyper-competent tech leader who thinks she’s going through perimenopause discovers she’s actually turning into a werewolf in this feminist,…

dark academia · urban fantasy · paranormal romance · werewolves shifters · romantic comedy

City of Souls and Sinners

Kayla Edwards · Fantasy

Loren and Darien are forced to keep secrets that threaten to tear them apart in the second book in the gripping urban romantasy House of Devils…

slow burn · enemies to lovers · forbidden romance · urban fantasy · fae

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch · Fantasy

Book 1 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.

urban fantasy · found family · coming of age · magic academy

The Women of Wild Hill

Kirsten Miller · Fantasy

A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change…

urban fantasy · found family · witches · grimdark

Bloodmarked

Tracy Deonn · Fantasy

All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death.

coming of age · found family · demons · urban fantasy · quest

The Late-Night Witches

Auralee Wallace · Fantasy

Cassie Beckett’s life is anything but magical.

witches · found family · romantic comedy · urban fantasy · friends to lovers

Human Rites

Juno Dawson · Fantasy

With Her Majesty’s Royal Coven in shambles and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the sisterhood of friends and witches must find a new…

urban fantasy · found family · witches · high stakes survival

American Gods

Neil Gaiman · Fantasy

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that…

urban fantasy · dark academia · quest · found family

Six of Crows: A Darker Shore

Leigh Bardugo · Fantasy

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a new Grishaverse short story: a mystery told through found documents and set after the…

heist · grimdark · urban fantasy · cat and mouse

House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

The first book in Sarah J. Maas's #1 bestselling Crescent City series. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all…

urban fantasy · romantic comedy · enemies to lovers · found family

We Dance Upon Demons

Vaishnavi Patel · Fantasy

From the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi, a galvanizing stand-alone contemporary fantasy following a burnt-out reproductive health care…

urban fantasy · slow burn · demons

House of Sky and Breath

Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately,…

urban fantasy · romantic comedy · enemies to lovers · slow burn · paranormal romance · found family

The Changeling

Victor LaValle · Fantasy

"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly…

dark academia · urban fantasy · fae · trauma recovery · obsessive love

Masters of Death

Olivie Blake · Fantasy

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire.

urban fantasy · paranormal romance · slow burn · vampires · ghosts

This Savage Song

V. E. Schwab · Fantasy

**KATE HARKER** wants to be as ruthless as her father.

enemies to lovers · dark academia · urban fantasy · slow burn · demons

The Mask of Mirrors

M. A. Carrick · Fantasy

"Lush, engrossing, and full of mystery and dark magic," The Mask of Mirrors is the unmissable start to the Rook & Rose trilogy, a dazzling fantasy…

grimdark · urban fantasy · morally grey character · quest · magic academy

Gods and Monsters

E E King · Fantasy

"Combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the dangerous social commentary of Hunter S.

urban fantasy · magical realism · slow burn

Crescent City

Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · enemies to lovers · fae

Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Fantasy

From a critically-acclaimed novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding and action-packed contemporary fantasy that…

paranormal romance · urban fantasy · vampires · gothic atmosphere