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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAlistair Grim's Odditorium
Gregory Funaro · 430 pages
In Victorian England, Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince
Cassandra Clare · 257 pages
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
The Devious Dr. Jekyll
Viola Carr · 447 pages
Crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Henry, tries to balance her newfound fame with the dangerous secret of her diabolical other self, Lizzie Hyde, while investigating a bizarre crime with the mercurial Captain Remy Lafayette.
The Diamond Conspiracy
Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages
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.
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 Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
Catherine Webb · 320 pages
The Peculiar
Stefan Bachmann
Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged. In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings--Peculiars--and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them. But when Bartholomew gets noticed by a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress it begins a magical adventure he could never have imagin
The Golden Spider
Anne Renwick · 484 pages
**On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy** ***Lady Amanda blackmailed her way into a prestigious London medical school…*** Not the preferred method of entrance, of course, but necessary, for it’s the only way to force Lord Thornton, a professor at the school, to help her perfect her invention: a clockwork spider capable of spinning arti
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
Mark Hodder · 438 pages
Morlock Night
K.W. Jeter · 332 pages
An unwitting participant in the mission to restore Excalibur to its rightful owner who comes awake only when England needs to be rescued, the narrator of this dark farcical romp is enlisted by Merlin to try to save the world. Written as a sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, K.W. Jeter created a science fiction tale employing alternate history and clockwork devices in a Victorian London settin
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.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus
Alan Moore · 218 pages
"As the twentieth century approaches, there is a need for a new kind of champion - adventurers not bound by the chaste order that characterizes the stagnant Victorian Era. The enigmatic Campion Bond of British Intelligence has begun a recruiting mission, collecting a menagerie of individuals who can be of value to his superiors due to ... activities that have forced them beyond the pale. But as Al