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Books like Chosen Ones

Veronica Roth · 2020 · US · fantasy
★ 3.58 Goodreads · 28,427 ratings

Ten years after five teenagers prophesied to save the world defeated the Dark One, Sloane, one of them, still can't move on, and then the chosen ones are pulled into another world.

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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996 · UK 95% match ★ 4.11 Hardcover · 1,828 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, portal fantasy, portal · easy read, speculative

Richard Mayhew, an ordinary young Londoner, helps an injured girl he finds on the pavement and falls out of his own life into London Below, a dark, magical city of people who slipped through the cracks.

Storm Front

Jim Butcher · 2000 · US 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 393,021 ratings
Book 1 of 17 in The Dresden Files
shares: Chicago, urban fantasy, series starter · easy read, speculative

Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, scrapes by as a private investigator until the police call him in on a gruesome double murder done with black magic, and the council of wizards already suspects him.

Rosemary and Rue

Seanan McGuire · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 40,914 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, series starter, 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.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-

Tappei Nagatsuki · 2014 · Japan 94% match
shares: portal fantasy, trauma, series starter · speculative, plain prose

Subaru Natsuki, a shut-in, is suddenly summoned to a fantasy world, and finds that whenever he dies he goes back to an earlier point in time.

Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan McGuire · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 3.85 Hardcover · 684 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in Wayward Children
shares: portal fantasy, series starter, portal · easy read, speculative

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children takes in children who found doors into other worlds and were sent back, and Nancy, newly returned from the Halls of the Dead, arrives just before her fellow students start to die.

Cry Wolf

Patricia Briggs · 2008 · US 94% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 111,277 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, trauma, series starter · 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.

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · 2019 · US 94% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 429,626 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Alex Stern
shares: urban fantasy, trauma · speculative, easy read

Alex Stern, a high school dropout who can see ghosts, is given a full scholarship to Yale on one condition: that she monitor the university's secret societies, whose magic is real, dark and dangerous.

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Carrie Vaughn · 2005 · US 94% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 34,116 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, series starter, female perspective · 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.

Tithe

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

Bitten

Kelley Armstrong · 2001 · Canada 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 106,856 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, series starter, female perspective · 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.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: chosen one, series starter · speculative, earnest

Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.

Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 2002 · UK 93% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 809,737 ratings
shares: portal fantasy, portal · easy read, speculative

Coraline finds a door in her new home that leads to another version of it, where her Other Mother has black button eyes, and everything is better, until the Other Mother decides to keep her.