6 must-read paranormal books like Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) by Holly Black

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Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

By: Holly Black

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and …

"She was a poisoned well of a girl."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Everyone loves the guy who brings ice."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"The problem with monsters is that you need to keep them leashed, or they turn on you."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

If you liked the paranormal plot in Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) by Holly Black , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Something Dark and Holy

By: Emily A. Duncan

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

Vicki Lame at Wednesday Books has bought, in a three-book deal, Emily Duncan's debut YA fantasy, So… read more

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2. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

Similar categories in K. Ritz's Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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3. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.30

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You never said how you got away from him." I stiffened, the NIghtmare's wicked laugh resonating in the din. When I spoke, the low notes of my voice were slick, as if dipped in oil. "Perhaps it was he…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

"Tell them. Tell them the truth. When your children ask, do not lie- do not hide the risk of magic. Children are strongest when their eyes are clear. Only then can they make their own choices. Only th…"

-Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

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4. Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

By: Rachel Gillig

4.44

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Gillig's Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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6. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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7. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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8. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.02

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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9. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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10. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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11. All the Murmuring Bones

By: A.G. Slatter

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Long ago Miren O'Malley's family prospered due to a deal struck with the Mer: safety for their ship… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's All the Murmuring Bones book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A secret seldom survives being shared."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"All the waters in the world are joined."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"She's dead, taking all my answers with her."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"The prince of assassins felled so low by a woman and a tiny knife."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

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12. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Cover of The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) by Naomi Novik

13. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

By: Naomi Novik

4.13

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to t… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Novik's The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Les seuls miracles que nous recevons jamais sont ceux que nous façonnons nous-mêmes, et nous payons par avance pour chacun d'entre eux."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone e…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn’t really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this w…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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14. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

By: Olivie Blake

3.55

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Socie… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Are you losing your mind?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Dinner together? Our last night?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Muder first and then scholarly pursuits"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

"Murder first and then scholarly pursuits"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

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16. Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

By: Holly Black

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"She was a poisoned well of a girl."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Everyone loves the guy who brings ice."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

"The problem with monsters is that you need to keep them leashed, or they turn on you."

-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

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17. Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.13

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. F… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Life is cruel. Magic is real. And I’m not ready to die"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"She was the kind of girl who was always okay. “A survivor,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

"Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold."

-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)

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18. Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.02

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"We all have spaces we keep blank."

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Quien no sabe de mar no sabe de mal!"

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Not every flower belongs in every garden."

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

"Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?"

-Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

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19. The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

By: Olivie Blake

3.59

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity,… read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Don't let me wake up alone."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"He finds the monsters we keep locked away and sets them loose, so why would I ever want him to see mine?"

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

"A flaw of humanity: the compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)

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20. Gallant

By: Victoria Schwab

3.71

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place wh… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Schwab's Gallant book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Home is a choice."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Every house has secrets"

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Ash holds its shape until you touch it."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

"Rain drums its fingers on the garden shed."

-Victoria Schwab, Gallant

Cover of The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) by Hannah F. Whitten

21. The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.79

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in th… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) book and Holly Black's Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A moment, then Gabe sighed, as if finally resigning himself to what was about to happen. "Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the …"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arcen…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs." They both started at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose th…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

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