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Best fantasy/supernatural books to wile away the days
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items Magic, witches, vampires, and all the spooky things with enough bite to keep you up at night.
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Impossible to put down
Unexpected supernatural fun
A little spicy
Insufferable men get their comeupance
Impossible to put down
Don't start these unless you're prepared to read until dawn
One of my favorite series of all time, this duology will force you to read fanfiction just to get your fix of these characters again.
This multi-POV book will make your favorite character change with each new chapter. Everyone is so well-written and ...
Six of Crows Boxed Set: Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom
The Chronicles of Castellane book 1: I could not put this down. Follow these complex characters as they try to get by in a city divided by culture, magic, and corruption.
Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane book 1)
The Chronicles of Castellane book 2: Sequel to Sword Catcher, dig deeper into the lives of a prince, his “cousin”, and the woman who might just tear apart the entire kingdom.
The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane book 2)
Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 1: Possibly my favorite book ever, The Lies of Locke Lamora is twisty, tricksy, fascinating, and utterly impossible to put down. Orphans in a fantasy world raised by a conman to con rich people out of their jewels, mon...
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 1)
Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 2: The sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora, we see Locke and Jean take on the fantasy equivalent of Las Vegas, only with far higher stakes. More twists, more suprises, more never-say-die friendship. And always the snark...
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 2)
Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 3: The continuation of our favorite con artists' story, starting with Locke about to die from poison. You'll finally meet Sabetha, and she's worth the wait. Unfortunately, the series was supposed to continue after this...
The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard Sequence book 3)
Unexpected supernatural fun
Genre-bending fantasy books that go places you'd never expect
Dr. Greta Helsing book 1: A doctor for supernatural creatures. The medical novel you never expected, but love to read!
Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing book 1)
Dr. Greta Helsing book 2: Continuing the saga of a human doctor looking after supernatural patients, Greta meets some really sucky vampires.
Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing book 2)
Dr. Greta Helsing book 3: Greta is finally settled but an improptu trip to the south of France sends her solving mysterious mummy diseases and possibly the fate of the world.
Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing book 3)
Regency Faerie Tales book 1: How does a girl with only half a soul get by in Regency England, especially when that soul half doesn't include things like tact, strong emotions, or the urge to get married?
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales book 1)
Regency Faerie Tales book 2: I enjoyed the first book in the series, and this one is even better. A housemaid makes a bargain with a faerie, and we all know how those turn out. This book really is fantastic!
Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales book 2)
This is the first book I've ever read where the heroine is not only a badass, but freshly postpartum. Kembral manages to leave her new baby at home with her sister for a few hours at a new year's party with her coworkers (because, don't you know, she...
The Last Hour Between Worlds (The Echo Archives book 1)
What happens when you wake up to find you're an evil wizard living in a hellish castle, but you aren't really feeling it anymore? This book is so much fun and definitely unexpected.
Dreadful
Time of Iron book 1: Rae is a very sick girl suddenly thrust into the fictional world of her sister's favorite book. There's only one problem: she's the villain and she doesn't remember enough of the story to know how to survive. Can she be evil enou...
Long Live Evil (Time of Iron book 1)
Who hasn't read stories of elderly women detectives and started to wonder how no one seems to notice the murder rate in their small town is egregiously high? This book answers the question: What if the detective wondered, too?
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
A little spicy
Adults only!
The story of a woman who reads omens to tell the future, then all goes to hell as soon as she meets the king and his knights.
The Knight and the Moth
Follow a secret witch trying to liberate other witches from captivity while maintaining her society girl facade, this book gives you a real enemies to lovers story. None of that “they didn't really get along then fell in love”, these two are actively...
Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth: Book 1
What happens next to Rune and Gideon? It's going to get messy (and sexy, of course). I can't believe it ends here!
Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Insufferable men get their comeupance
We love to see it!
A retelling of an old novella about vampire Carmilla, this Victorian England story focuses on a meek woman in a loveless marriage finding her true strength with the help of a mysterious stranger. Creepy, sexy, and sometimes uncomfortably visceral, Hu...
Hungerstone
Set in Puritan America, this period piece captures the visceral horror of witch trials and displays a fascinating amalgamation of Christian, Pagan, and Native deities.
Content warning: violence, some gore, insufferable men
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The saga of the woman who first lived in the Garden of Eden and how she survived the rest of history. Fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening.
Lilith