Written by American author Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil is described as a young adult fantasy fairytale series. The series is composed of two trilogies, the first being about the adventures of two best friends named Sophie and Agatha. They joined the School for Good and Evil, an enchanted institution where children…
Created by Gail Carriger–the pen name of American archaeologist and author Tofa Borregaard–the Parasol Protectorate series is the heart of a large literary universe composed of multiple series of steampunk paranormal romance stories. The Parasol Protectorate series is first about a young woman with no soul named Alexia Tarabotti who ends up dealing with the…
Developed by great American novelist Anne Bishop, the Black Jewels series is set in a world where dark power and magic exercise authority in a deeply matriarchal society. The original trilogy is at the center of the series, chronicling the epic story of Witch, the living embodiment of magic, and the persistent chase of those…
Den of Shadows is a fantasy series written by American author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is set in the world of the Kiesha’ra series (in fact, the series takes place before the Kiesha’ra). As the author described it, Den of Shadows is set in a world that is similar to ours, but rich with magic (for good…
Written by Filipina-American author Melissa de la Cruz, the Blue Bloods series is a Young Adult Fantasy series about Vampires! The series follows Schuyler Van Alen Chase, a half-blood vampire, the first and only one of her kind. When the story begins, Schuyler discovers the world of the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires,…
Also known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries or The True Blood Novels, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels is a horror fantasy romance series for adults written by Charlaine Harris. It’s about Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who is also a telepath. She lives in the town of Bon Temps in northwestern Louisiana. Vampires and other supernatural creatures…
Published from 1977 to 2006, Diana Wynne Jones’s Chrestomanci series takes us in an unspecified time, in a parallel world close to ours where magic is common. Chrestomanci is the name of a powerful enchanter and British government official whose duties include the supervision and enforcement of magical law. Only the most powerful enchanter can…
Written by P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast, House of Night is a series of young adult fantasy novels following the adventures of a teenager who must be trained to become a Vampyre. More precisely, the story is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Zoey Redbird who has just become what is called a ‘fledgling…
Also known as The Peter Grant series, the Rivers of London series is written by English author Ben Aaronovitch. It’s composed of novels, short stories, audiobooks, and graphic novels (written by Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, and illustrated by Lee Sullivan). This urban fantasy story is about Probationary Constable Peter Grant who, in the aftermath of…
The Sword of Truth series began in 1994, more than ten years before becoming a TV show known as Legend of the Seeker. Written by Terry Goodkind (1948-2020), this is a series of epic fantasy novels The series follows the journey of a young woodsman named Richard Cypher who becomes the Seeker of Truth and…
Written by American author Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage trilogy is a series of epic fantasy novels taking place in the kingdom of Adro, one of the Nine Kingdoms founded by Kresimir, a semi-mythical figure now worshiped as a deity. Civil unrest cripples the citizens of Adro in the aftermath of the revolution that obliterated…
Published since 1991, The Saga of Recluce is a series of fantasy novels written by the prolific American author L. E. Modesitt Jr. The series is about the changing relationship between the descendants of two technologically advanced cultures, spanning a period of almost two thousand years. “order” and “chaos” are the main forces within this…
