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Maggie Stiefvater · 2012 · US · fantasy · young adult
Book 1 of 4 in The Raven Cycle
★ 4.05 Goodreads · 412,557 ratings

Blue Sargent, from a family of psychics in Henrietta, Virginia, has always been told that if she kisses her true love he will die, and she has never cared, until she gets mixed up with four boys from an elite private school who are hunting for a sleeping Welsh king.

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12 books for readers of The Raven Boys

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · 2011 · US 95% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 1,384,137 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
shares: Welsh, young adult · easy read, uncanny

A Florida teenager flies to a Welsh island following a clue in his dead grandfather's photographs and walks into 1940 and a home for children whose peculiarities have to be hidden from the monsters hunting them.

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor · 2011 · US 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 39,270 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Nsibidi Scripts
shares: school, young adult, series starter · easy read, warm

Sunny Nwazue, twelve, born in New York to Nigerian parents and now living in Nigeria, an albino who can't play football in the sun, finds out she is one of the Leopard People, who work juju.

The Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander · 1964 · US 94% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 85,046 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Chronicles of Prydain
shares: Welsh, quest, series starter · easy read, speculative

Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.

The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 315,961 ratings
shares: prophecy, quest, series starter · speculative, easy read

Sybil Delling is one of six Diviners raised in the cathedral of Aisling to prophesy for the kingdom, and when her sisters begin to disappear, she sets out with a surly knight, Rodrick Rook, to find them.

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa · 2010 · US 93% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 219,732 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Iron Fey
shares: quest, young adult, series starter · easy read, speculative

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.

The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · 2014 · Australia 93% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 105,224 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Licanius
shares: prophecy, school, quest · speculative, conventional

Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Roshani Chokshi · 2018 · US 93% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 29,865 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Pandava
shares: quest, series starter, friendship · easy read, warm

Aru Shah, twelve, who lives in a museum of Indian art in Atlanta and tells a lot of lies, lights a cursed lamp to prove a point and wakes the Sleeper, a demon who will bring the end of time.

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 2007 · US 91% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 689,826 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Vampire Academy
shares: young adult, friendship, school · easy read, story-driven

Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire training to guard her best friend Lissa, a vampire princess, is dragged back with her to St. Vladimir's Academy after two years on the run, where rivalries, gossip and something stalking Lissa are waiting.

Shadowshaper

Daniel José Older · 2015 · US 91% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 11,009 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Shadowshaper Cypher
shares: young adult, series starter, friendship · easy read, warm

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.

Alanna: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce · 1983 · US 90% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 138,780 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Song of the Lioness
shares: school, young adult, series starter · easy read, speculative

Alanna of Trebond, who wants to be a knight, swaps places with her twin brother, who wants to be a sorcerer, and enters the royal palace as a page disguised as a boy.

We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · 2019 · US 89% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 112,102 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Sands of Arawiya
shares: quest, young adult, series starter · speculative, easy read

Zafira, who disguises herself as a man to hunt in the cursed Arz forest, and Nasir, the Prince of Death and the sultan's assassin, are sent after the same lost relic that could bring magic back to their kingdom.

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan · 2005 · US 89% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 3,578,744 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians
shares: quest, series starter, friendship · easy read, speculative

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, a troubled kid with dyslexia and ADHD, learns that the Greek gods are real and that he is the son of one of them, and he has ten days to find Zeus's stolen lightning bolt and stop a war among the gods.