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Patricia Briggs · 2007 · US · fantasy
Book 2 of 14 in Mercy Thompson
★ 4.30 Goodreads · 138,162 ratings

Mercy Thompson, a mechanic who can turn into a coyote, owes a favour to her vampire friend Stefan, and goes with him to deliver a message to a visiting vampire who turns out to be possessed by a demon.

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Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Carrie Vaughn · 2005 · US 97% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 34,116 ratings
shares: werewolf, urban fantasy, female perspective, werewolves · speculative, easy read

Kitty Norville, a werewolf at the bottom of her Denver pack, hosts a late-night radio show and starts taking calls from vampires, werewolves and witches on air.

Cry Wolf

Patricia Briggs · 2008 · US 97% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 111,277 ratings
shares: werewolf, urban fantasy, werewolves · speculative, earnest

Anna Latham, a werewolf who has spent three years at the bottom of a brutal Chicago pack, is claimed as mate by Charles Cornick, son of the Marrok, and taken to Montana, where a rogue wolf is killing in the mountains.

Bitten

Kelley Armstrong · 2001 · Canada 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 106,856 ratings
shares: werewolf, urban fantasy, female perspective, werewolves · speculative, easy read

Elena Michaels, the only female werewolf alive, has left the Pack for a human life in Toronto, until a string of killings calls her back to Stonehaven.

Rosemary and Rue

Seanan McGuire · 2009 · US 96% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 40,914 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, investigative, female perspective · speculative, easy read

October Daye, a changeling private investigator in San Francisco who lost fourteen years transformed into a fish, is forced back into the world of Faerie when a countess is murdered.

Magic Bites

Ilona Andrews · 2007 · US 96% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 139,103 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Kate Daniels
shares: shapeshifter, urban fantasy, investigative · speculative, story-driven

In an Atlanta where waves of magic come and go, knocking out technology, mercenary Kate Daniels sets out to find who killed her guardian, and the trail runs through the city's necromancers and the shapeshifter Pack ruled by Curran, the Beast Lord.

Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993 · US 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 155,226 ratings
Book 1 of 30 in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
shares: urban fantasy, vampire, investigative · easy read, speculative

In a St. Louis where vampires have legal rights, Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes rogue vampires for the courts, until the city's vampire master forces her to hunt the killer who is murdering vampires.

Wolfsong

TJ Klune · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 121,320 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Green Creek
shares: shapeshifter, werewolf, werewolves · speculative, earnest

Ox Matheson, a lonely sixteen-year-old in a small Oregon town, is taken in by the Bennett family who move in next door, and discovers they are werewolves.

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer · 2005 · US 96% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 7,540,469 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Twilight Saga
shares: vampire · easy read, earnest

Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks, Washington, to live with her father and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems to loathe her, until she learns what he is.

Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris · 2001 · US 94% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 567,131 ratings
Book 1 of 13 in Sookie Stackhouse
shares: shapeshifter, vampire, female perspective · easy read, speculative

Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, falls for Bill Compton, the first vampire to settle there since vampires came out to the world, just as women she knows start turning up dead.

Dead Witch Walking

Kim Harrison · 2004 · US 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 130,636 ratings
Book 1 of 19 in The Hollows
shares: urban fantasy, vampire, female perspective · easy read, speculative

Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter for Cincinnati's Inderland Security, quits to go independent, and her old employer puts a price on her head, leaving her to survive with a living vampire and a foul-mouthed pixy as partners.

Sharp Teeth

Toby Barlow · 2008 · US 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 4,911 ratings
shares: shapeshifter, werewolf, werewolves · speculative, exterior

In Los Angeles, a secret army of werewolves recruits from dog-catchers and the down-and-out, while a lonely dog-catcher falls for a woman who is one of them, all told in free verse.

Tithe

Holly Black · 2002 · US 94% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 110,979 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Modern Faerie Tales
shares: urban fantasy, urban · speculative, easy read

Kaye, sixteen, who drifts around with her rock-singer mother, moves back to her grandmother's house in New Jersey and finds herself caught up in a war between the faerie courts.