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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThis Scepter'd Isle
Mercedes Lackey, Roberta Gellis · 571 pages
The Silver Skull
Mark Chadbourn · 424 pages
The Silver Skull" features a devilish plot to assassinate the queen, a Cold War enemy hell-bent on destroying the nation, and a race against time to stop the ultimate doomsday device.
Midnight Never Come
Marie Brennan · 400 pages
England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of the Tudor monarchs. But a great light casts a great shadow.In hidden catacombs beneath London , a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England , and a dark mirror to the glory above. In the thirty years since Elizabeth ascended her throne, fae and mortal politics have become inext
Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett · 375 pages
The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No times for dreaming... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
Witchfall
Victoria Lamb · 316 pages
In order for magic-wielding Meg to keep the outcast Princess Elizabeth and her secret betrothed, the Spanish priest Alejandro de Castillo, safe in the court of Queen Mary, she needs to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Welcome to Bordertown
Holly Black, Ellen Kushner · 517 pages
Bordertown: a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, and to find themselves. Elves play in rock bands and race down the street on spell-powered motorbikes. Human kids recreate themselves in squats and clubs and artist's studios of Soho. Authors including Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Neil Ga
The Land of the Silver Apples
Nancy Farmer · 504 pages
After escaping from the Sea of Trolls, the apprentice bard Jack plunges into a new series of adventures, traveling underground to Elfland and uncovering the truth about his little sister Lucy.
The Fair Folk
Marvin Kaye, Tanith Lee, Megan Lindholm, Kim Newman, Patricia A. McKillip, Craig Shaw Gardner, Jane Yolen, Midori Snyder · 441 pages
Why elves? On the other hand, why not elves? The Science Fiction Book Club wanted to do a new anthology, and elves are a nice broad subject that lets the authors stretch out. So we asked a half-dozen of our favorites to each tell us a story about that old, powerful and eternally fasinating species. There were only two requirements: each tale had to be novella-length, and there had to be at least o
Bedlam's Bard
Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon · 617 pages
The start of the series with Bard Eric Banyon and friends. Magic, dragons, night flyers, elves, the feds, crazy scientist, friends, healing and so much more. What are you waiting for, this is well worth the reading!
The Secret of the Dread Forest
Gillian Summers
After reluctantly joining her father in the Dread Forest, home to elves and her fearsome elf grandmother, teenaged Keelie meets a mysterious boy and learns that both humans and dark magical forces are encroaching on the elves' enchanted realm.
Unquiet Dreams
Mark Del Franco · 298 pages
Fueled by a mysterious new drug, Celtic fairies and Teutonic elves battle for turf and power-with humans caught in the middle. As the body count rises, Connor Grey uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens to destroy not only the city, but the world.
Bordertown
Mark Alan Arnold, Emma Bull, Midori Snyder, Ellen Kushner · 256 pages
The Red Queen's Daughter
Jacqueline Kolosov
The Red Queen's Daughter by Jacqueline Kolosov 3.54 · Rating details · 1,480 ratings · 178 reviews Mary Seymour is the daughter of the great Katherine Parr--the last Queen of Henry VIII. Orphaned at a young age because of her mother's bad marriage to Thomas Seymour, Mary determines early on that love is a sentiment that causes foolishness at best, and death at worst. She
Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness · 592 pages
Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany · 242 pages
The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. Obeying the immemorial custom, the lord sends his son Alveric to fetch the King of Elfland's daughter, Lirazel, to be his bride. He makes his way to Elfland, where time passes at a rate far slower than the real world, and wins her. They return to Erl and have a son, but in the manner of fairy brides
Down to the Bone
Justina Robson · 348 pages
"Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm."--Publisher.