Books like Nimona
Nimona, a young shapeshifter with a taste for chaos, talks her way into becoming sidekick to the supervillain Lord Ballister Blackheart, and together they set out to prove that the heroes of the Institution are not what they seem.
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster hibernating under a manor, is hunted by a family of monster-hunters, and falls for Homily, one of them.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.
The Tea Dragon Society
Greta, a blacksmith's apprentice, rescues a lost tea dragon in the market and, returning it, is drawn into the quiet art of caring for the small dragons whose leaves hold memories.
Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
The Blade Itself
A barbarian, a torturer, and a nobleman are drawn into a war they don't understand, in a grimdark world where nobody is the hero.
Six of Crows
Kaz Brekker, a teenage criminal prodigy in the port city of Ketterdam, gathers five dangerous outcasts for a heist no one has survived: breaking a prisoner out of the Ice Court, the impregnable stronghold of Fjerda.
Artemis Fowl
Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl plans to restore his family's fortune by kidnapping a fairy and holding her for ransom, but Captain Holly Short of the high-tech fairy police is not an easy hostage.
Ella Enchanted
Ella of Frell was given the gift of obedience by a foolish fairy at birth, so she must do whatever anyone tells her, and after her mother dies she sets out to break the curse, in a witty retelling of Cinderella.
Sorcery of Thorns
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.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
A charming thief assembles a crew to rob a criminal overlord, kicking off a fantasy heist series set in a Venice-like city of thieves and con artists.
Kings of the Wyld
Clay Cooper, once of Saga, the most famous band of mercenaries in the land, is living quietly when his old frontman Golden Gabe asks him to get the band back together and cross a monster-filled wild to rescue Gabe's daughter from a besieged city.
A Deadly Education
At the Scholomance, a school for wizards with no teachers and no holidays, only monsters that eat the students, a prickly girl with a talent for mass destruction tries very hard not to use it.