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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Diamond Thief
Sharon Gosling · 305 pages
No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Rémy Brunel. But Rémy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.
The Lazarus Machine
Paul Crilley
In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.
Legacy of the Clockwork Key
Kristin Bailey · 409 pages
A orphaned sixteen-year-old servant in Victorian England finds love while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare · 222 pages
The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
Catherine Webb · 320 pages
The Hunchback Assignments
Arthur Slade
A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania's efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on
Timekeeper
Tara Sim · 414 pages
In an alternate 1875 England, seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny, aided by the boy he loves, must discover who is sabotaging the towers that control the flow of time and stop him or her before it is too late.
Infernal Devices
K.W. Jeter · 283 pages
Steampunk. Fresh and inventive, darkly humorous, and with wild characters who never take a backseat to the mechanical creations.
Homunculus
James P. Blaylock · 280 pages
In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the reanimated dead.
The Diamond Conspiracy
Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages
The Red Plague Affair
Lilith Saintcrow · 311 pages
Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies.
All Men of Genius
Lev A.C. Rosen · 462 pages
Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father’s policy that the small, exclusive college remain male-only. Violet sees her opportunity when her father departs for America. She