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Books like City of Bones

Cassandra Clare · 2007 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 6 in The Mortal Instruments
★ 4.06 Goodreads · 2,221,683 ratings

Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray watches three teenagers kill a boy in a New York nightclub, a murder no one else can see, and when her mother vanishes she is pulled into the hidden world of the Shadowhunters.

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12 books for readers of City of Bones

Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · 2010 · US 97% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 891,637 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Infernal Devices
shares: urban fantasy, love triangle, young adult, romance · easy read, story-driven

In 1878 Tessa Gray crosses from New York to London to find her brother, is held by the Dark Sisters, who show her that she can change into other people, and is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.

Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 2007 · US 96% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 167,104 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Wicked Lovely
shares: urban fantasy, love triangle, young adult, romance · easy read, speculative

Aislinn, who has always been able to see faeries and has kept it secret, is chosen by Keenan, the Summer King, as the mortal girl who may become his queen.

Storm Front

Jim Butcher · 2000 · US 96% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 393,021 ratings
Book 1 of 17 in The Dresden Files
shares: urban fantasy, action heavy, magic · easy read, story-driven

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.

Magic Bites

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

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.

Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 165,194 ratings
shares: demonic, young adult, magic, romance · easy read, speculative

Elisabeth Scrivener, an orphan raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, where grimoires can turn into monsters, is blamed for a deadly act of sabotage and must trust the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon servant to clear her name.

Dead Witch Walking

Kim Harrison · 2004 · US 96% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 130,636 ratings
Book 1 of 19 in The Hollows
shares: urban fantasy, action heavy, witty · easy read, story-driven

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.

Shadowshaper

Daniel José Older · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 11,009 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Shadowshaper Cypher
shares: urban fantasy, young adult, magic · easy read, fast-paced

Sierra Santiago, starting her summer painting a mural in Brooklyn, notices the murals in her neighbourhood fading and weeping, and learns her family has a secret that ties spirits to art.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Laini Taylor · 2011 · US 96% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 389,087 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Daughter of Smoke & Bone
shares: urban fantasy, young adult, romance · easy read, story-driven

Karou, a blue-haired art student in Prague, runs errands across the world for Brimstone, the chimaera who raised her, collecting teeth for purposes he will not explain, until a seraph named Akiva starts hunting his kind.

House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas · 2020 · US 95% match ★ 4.45 Goodreads · 1,370,342 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Crescent City
shares: urban fantasy, demonic, magic, romance · easy read, story-driven

Bryce Quinlan, a half-fae party girl working at an antiquities gallery in the modern city of Lunathion, is pulled into the hunt for the demon that killed her best friend, alongside Hunt Athalar, an enslaved fallen angel.

Once Upon a Broken Heart

Stephanie Garber · 2021 · US 95% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 787,070 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Once Upon a Broken Heart
shares: love triangle, young adult, magic, romance · easy read, story-driven

When the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister, Evangeline Fox strikes a bargain with Jacks, the immortal Prince of Hearts, and must pay for his help with three kisses of his choosing, in a kingdom where fairy tales hold dangerous power.

Moon Called

Patricia Briggs · 2006 · US 94% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 222,391 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Mercy Thompson
shares: urban fantasy, witty · easy read, story-driven

Mercedes Thompson, a Volkswagen mechanic in Washington's Tri-Cities who can turn into a coyote, takes in a young werewolf on the run, and his trouble pulls her into the politics of the local pack, led by her alpha neighbour, Adam Hauptman.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: love triangle, young adult, magic · easy read, story-driven

Just as she turns sixteen, Meghan Chase learns that her little brother has been taken and replaced with a changeling, and that she is the half-human daughter of a faery king, and she follows her best friend Robbie into the Nevernever to bring him home.