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Books like Half a Soul

Olivia Atwater · 2020 · Canada · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 3 in Regency Faerie Tales
★ 4.03 Goodreads · 89,897 ratings

Ever since a faerie lord took half her soul when she was a child, Theodora Ettings has felt very little, which makes her London Season awkward, until she meets Lord Elias Wilder, the rude, unfashionable magician who might help her.

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12 books for readers of Half a Soul

The Duke and I

Julia Quinn · 2000 · US 96% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 743,727 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Bridgerton
shares: Regency, courtship, London, regency · easy read, romance-driven

In Regency London, Daphne Bridgerton, eldest daughter of a large and loving family, and Simon Basset, the new Duke of Hastings, who has sworn never to marry, pretend to court so he can escape the matchmaking mothers and she can attract better suitors.

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna · 2025 · UK 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 132,605 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, witty, romance · easy read, clear-cut

At fifteen, Sera Swan used forbidden magic to try to bring back the aunt who raised her and lost most of her power; fifteen years later she runs Batty Hole, an enchanted inn in Lancashire full of eccentric long-term guests.

Someone to Love

Mary Balogh · 2016 · UK 94% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 14,592 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Westcott
shares: Regency, courtship, witty, regency · easy read, romance-driven

When the Earl of Riverdale dies, his family learns that Anna Snow, raised in a Bath orphanage and teaching there, is his legitimate daughter and heir, which leaves his other children illegitimate and Anna under the eye of the cool, elegant Duke of Netherby.

The Duchess Deal

Tessa Dare · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 71,909 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Girl Meets Duke
shares: Regency, courtship, witty, regency · easy read, romance-driven

Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, storms the Duke of Ashbury's house to collect payment for a wedding gown his jilting fiancée never paid for, and the duke, scarred at Waterloo and in need of an heir, proposes a marriage of convenience.

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

Heather Fawcett · 2026 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 42,524 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, witty, romance · easy read, clear-cut

In 1920s Montreal, Agnes Aubert has to move her overcrowded cat shelter, and the only premises she can afford come cheap for a reason: the basement holds a secret magic shop run by Havelock Renard, a former dark magician.

The Honey Witch

Sydney J. Shields · 2024 · US 94% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 31,948 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, romantic, romance · easy read, romance-driven

Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude agrees to train as the next Honey Witch on the tiny Isle of Innisfree, though the Honey Witch is cursed so that no one can fall in love with her, and then Lottie Burke, a grumpy sceptic who does not believe in magic, arrives at the cottage.

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

Megan Bannen · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 52,880 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, witty, romance · easy read, romance-driven

Hart, a marshal who patrols a wild, magic-haunted borderland, and Mercy, who runs her family's undertaking business, can't stand each other, and neither knows that the anonymous friend each has been writing letters to is the other.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna · 2022 · UK 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 432,332 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, witty · easy read, clear-cut

Mika Moon, one of the few witches in Britain, hides her magic by pretending to be one online, until a message from the mysterious Nowhere House asks her to teach three young witches, to the alarm of its prickly librarian, Jamie.

A Rogue by Any Other Name

Sarah MacLean · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 47,314 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Rules of Scoundrels
shares: Regency, London, witty, regency · easy read, romance-driven

Ten years after losing his estate in a card game, Michael Lawler, Marquess of Bourne, owner of London's most exclusive gaming hell, learns that the land has become part of the dowry of Lady Penelope Marbury, and he means to marry her to get it back.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Heather Fawcett · 2023 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 242,232 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Emily Wilde
shares: cosy, fairytale, witty, fae · easy read, clear-cut

In 1909, Cambridge professor Emily Wilde, a brilliant and prickly scholar of faeries, travels to a remote northern village to study its Hidden Ones, and is dismayed when her charming, maddening rival Wendell Bambleby turns up.

The House Witch

Delemhach · 2022 · Canada 93% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 39,924 ratings
shares: cosy, magic, witty · easy read, clear-cut

Finlay Ashowan, the new royal cook of Daxaria, wants only to keep to his kitchen and his secrets, but the magic he cooks into his food soon draws the knights and nobles of the castle to his door.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813 · UK 93% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 5,032,509 ratings
shares: Regency, courtship, witty, regency · romance-driven, clear-cut

Elizabeth Bennet, the witty second of five unmarried sisters, and Mr Darcy, a proud and wealthy gentleman, misjudge each other badly, and only slowly learn how wrong they both were.