Books like The Atrocity Archives
Bob Howard, an IT worker at the Laundry, the British agency that guards against horrors summoned by mathematics, wants a field job and gets one, sent to California to look after a philosopher whose research has drawn the wrong attention.
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The Rook
A woman wakes in a London park surrounded by dead men in latex gloves, with no memory and a letter in her pocket from her body's previous owner, Myfanwy Thomas, a senior officer of the Checquy, Britain's secret supernatural service.
Rivers of London
Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.
The Ministry of Time
A British civil servant is hired by a secretive new ministry to live with Commander Graham Gore, a Victorian naval officer brought into the present from the doomed Franklin expedition, and as she teaches him modern life, they fall for each other while the project turns dangerous.
Declare
In 1963 Andrew Hale, a British academic who was a wartime spy, gets a coded phone call that sends him back to Operation Declare, the secret mission on Mount Ararat that went wrong in 1948.
Service Model
Charles, a robot valet in a decaying country house, finds that he has killed his master, and he sets out across a collapsing world in search of a new position, joined by a talkative human he calls the Wonk.
Last Call
Scott Crane, a professional gambler who lost an eye in a strange poker game on a houseboat on Lake Mead twenty years ago, finds that the men he played with then want to finish what they started.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.
The Great God Pan
A doctor performs brain surgery on a young woman so that she can see the god Pan, and years later a string of suicides among London gentlemen leads back to a beautiful woman no one can quite place.
John Dies at the End
Two slackers in an unnamed Midwestern town take a street drug called soy sauce that lets them see the monsters hiding in plain sight, and now the monsters can see them too.
The Library at Mount Char
Carolyn and the other adopted children of a godlike figure called Father have each spent years mastering one catalogue of his library, and when he goes missing, the contest to replace him turns lethal.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and a bewildered Englishman hitchhikes across the galaxy with a depressed robot and a two-headed president.