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Threadneedle

Cari Thomas · 576 pages

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The Oversight

Charlie Fletcher · 451 pages

"Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruits, or she could be the instrument of their downfall."--Publisher's description.

LondonUrban FantasyAtmosphericMultiple POV
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Laini Taylor · 448 pages

Urban FantasyAtmosphericYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Mime Order

Samantha Shannon

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution. Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of Scion is undefeated. As it turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, she is forced to return to Jaxon Hall, her charismatic and brutal employer, to keep her foothold in the underworld. But Paige will bow to one now, and not

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This Savage Song

Victoria Schwab · 448 pages

**KATE HARKER** wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she's finally going home to prove that she can be. **AUGUST FLYNN** wants to be human. But he isn't. He's a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He's one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father's secret weapon. **THEIR CITY IS DIVIDED.** **THE

Urban FantasyBig CityYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Midnight Mayor

Kate Griffin · 467 pages

It's said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London, then the Tower will crumble and the kingdom will fall. Resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to discover that this isn't so far from the truth ... and if he's lucky, he might live long enough to do something about it ...

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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 388 pages

"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels. He

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A Darker Shade of Magic

V.E. Schwab · 400 pages

LondonAtmosphericMultiple POVUrban Fantasy
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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

Big CityAtmosphericYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare · 576 pages

If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it? The clock is ticking. Everyone must choose.

Urban FantasyLondonYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

Urban FantasyAtmosphericYoung AdultMultiple POV
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A Steeping of Blood

Hafsah Faizal · 435 pages

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The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin · 437 pages

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The Mask of Mirrors

M.A. Carrick · 630 pages

Big CityAtmosphericMultiple POVSeries Starter
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Where Dreams Descend

Janella Angeles · 464 pages

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When Among Crows

Veronica Roth · 166 pages

Urban FantasyBig CityAtmosphericMultiple POV
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Heaven

Christoph Marzi · 416 pages

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The Ivory and the Horn

Charles de Lint · 352 pages

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The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 439 pages

Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger. When she meets Gansey, one of the boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as "raven boys", they can only mean

Urban FantasyAtmosphericYoung AdultMultiple POV
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A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 720 pages

**An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.** When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft

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This is Shyness

Leanne Hall

Big CityAtmosphericYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin · 513 pages

Big CityYoung AdultMultiple POVAtmospheric
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Burn Mark

Laura Powell

In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her "fae," or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.

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Everland

Wendy Spinale · 312 pages

London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with P

LondonYoung AdultMultiple POVFound Family

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