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Toby Barlow · 2008 · US · fantasy
★ 3.87 Goodreads · 4,911 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Sharp Teeth

Moon Called

Patricia Briggs · 2006 · US 97% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 222,391 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Mercy Thompson
shares: shapeshifter, werewolf, romantic · low-key, speculative

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.

Wolfsong

TJ Klune · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 121,320 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Green Creek
shares: shapeshifter, werewolf, romantic, werewolves · speculative, intimate

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.

The Last Werewolf

Glen Duncan · 2011 · UK 93% match ★ 3.45 Goodreads · 16,988 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · cold, rich prose

Jake Marlowe, two hundred years old and, he is told, the last werewolf alive, has a month until the hunters come for him, and is tired enough to let them.

Blood and Chocolate

Annette Curtis Klause · 1997 · US 92% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 44,383 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · cold, speculative

Vivian Gandillon, a sixteen-year-old werewolf whose pack has fled to a Maryland suburb after a fire, falls for a human boy at school.

Bitten

Kelley Armstrong · 2001 · Canada 92% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 106,856 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, romantic, werewolves · speculative, cold

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.

Cry Wolf

Patricia Briggs · 2008 · US 89% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 111,277 ratings
shares: werewolf, romantic, werewolves · speculative, intimate

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.

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Carrie Vaughn · 2005 · US 89% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 34,116 ratings
shares: werewolf, werewolves · speculative, low-key

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.

Zoo City

Lauren Beukes · 2010 · South Africa 87% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 11,730 ratings
shares: noir · low-key, cold

In a Johannesburg where anyone who causes a death is bound to a magical animal companion, Zinzi December, a former journalist with a Sloth on her back, makes a living finding lost things and is hired to find a missing teenage pop star.

Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler · 1940 · US 86% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 44,391 ratings
Book 2 of 8 in Philip Marlowe
shares: gangster, Los Angeles, noir · rich prose, low-key

A detective searches for a missing ex-con in 1940s L.A. and finds a world of fake identities, wealthy psychopaths, and the city's rotten underside.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

John Wiswell · 2024 · US 86% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 26,587 ratings
shares: shapeshifter, dark humoured, romantic · speculative, uncanny

Shesheshen, a shapeshifting monster hibernating under a manor, is hunted by a family of monster-hunters, and falls for Homily, one of them.

The Werewolf of Paris

Guy Endore · 1933 · US 86% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 1,541 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · dark, cold

Bertrand Caillet, born in rural France on a Christmas Eve, grows up with a terrible hunger, and his guardian tries to hide what he is as he grows into the Paris of the 1871 Commune.

Red Moon

Benjamin Percy · 2012 · US 86% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 6,245 ratings
shares: werewolf, brutal, werewolves · exterior, dark

In an America where lycans are registered and drugged, a hijacking by lycan terrorists sets off a war, and a teenage girl who is secretly one of them has to run.