19 must-read urban fantasy books like Off-Balance by Seanan McGuire

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Off-Balance

By: Seanan McGuire

4.26

Format: 50 pages, None

It's time for the first Patreon story of 2020! Alice has no sense of self-preservation. Can she o…

If you liked the urban fantasy plot in Off-Balance by Seanan McGuire , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7) by Ilona Andrews

1. Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.49

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

No matter how much the paranormal politics of Atlanta change, one thing always remains the same: if… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Diplomatic,"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

"You can’t blame me,"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

"Where are we going?"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

"What the hell is this?"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

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2. Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Da… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Mirror, Mirror (The Dresden Files, #17) by Jim Butcher

3. Mirror, Mirror (The Dresden Files, #17)

By: Jim Butcher

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

"The next book after this one (, DragonCon 2015. read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What did you tell them?"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

"And men my prophet wail deride!"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

"If you can't make it go away, wait it out."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

"And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

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5. Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.43

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal prob… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Kate?"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

"I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

"His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I’m not it."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

"Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

6. Urban Enemies

By: Kelley Armstrong , Carrie Vaughn , Seanan McGuire , Faith Hunter , Jonathan Maberry , Jim Butcher , Caitlin Kittredge , Lilith Saintcrow , Diana Pharaoh Francis , Domino Finn , Joseph Nassise , Steven Savile , Kevin Hearne , Jeff Somers , Jon F. Merz , Craig Schaefer , Sam Witt

3.43

Format: 42 pages, ebook

Villains have all the fun--everyone knows that--and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through… read more

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7. Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Audrey Callahan left behind her life in the Edge, and she's determined to stay on the straight and … read more

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8. Magic Rises (Kate Daniels, #6)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.20

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them--no matter the… read more

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9. Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren't for the magic. When the magic is up, rogue mag… read more

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10. Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Down in Atlanta, tempers - and temperatures - are about to flare... As a mercenary who cleans up af… read more

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11. Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.78

Format: None pages, ebook

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews launches a brand new Hidden Legacy series, in wh… read more

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12. The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

4.25

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

The characters are off on a diplomatic mission to another Spire. A bunch of representatives of vari… read more

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13. Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings… read more

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14. The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.40

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set af… read more

Similar categories in Jim Butcher's The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Soul Taken (Mercy Thompson, #13)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.44

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Briggs's Soul Taken (Mercy Thompson, #13) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Magic Tides (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #1; Kate Daniels, #10.5) by Ilona Andrews

16. Magic Tides (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #1; Kate Daniels, #10.5)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.52

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Ilona Andrews invites you back to the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series in this exc… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Magic Tides (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #1; Kate Daniels, #10.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
"Did you blow up a kraken?" "Maybe." He laughed into the phone."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Tides (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #1; Kate Daniels, #10.5)

"You didn't tell me you were the Consort," I growled. "I haven't been the Consort for 9 years." "I didn't think you were a shapeshifter, but now I see it, " Thomas said. "You sound like one." Behind m…"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Tides (Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years, #1; Kate Daniels, #10.5)

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17. Sweep with Me (Innkeeper Chronicles, #4.5)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.39

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

A charming, short novella in the Innkeeper Chronicles, from #1 New York Times bestselling author, I… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Sweep with Me (Innkeeper Chronicles, #4.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Warriorborn (The Cinder Spires #1.5)

By: Jim Butcher

4.46

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of the Dresden Files comes an all-new, action-packed… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

19. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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20. The Silver Mark (Crow Investigations #2)

By: Sarah Painter

4.02

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it pe… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Painter's The Silver Mark (Crow Investigations #2) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8) by Anne Bishop

21. Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8)

By: Anne Bishop

4.39

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others s… read more

Similar categories in Anne Bishop's Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.34

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Now mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other–one that lurks too… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness."

-Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5)

"Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers."

-Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5)

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23. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • fiction
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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24. Sweep of the Heart (Innkeeper Chronicles, #5)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.52

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adv… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Sweep of the Heart (Innkeeper Chronicles, #5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) by Patricia Briggs

25. Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Briggs's Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

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26. Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.44

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews is back with the newest book in the exciting Hid… read more

Similar categories in Ilona Andrews's Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. Wolf's Bane

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.10

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Summer camp is a traditional teenage rite of passage, but when you add supernatural powers to the t… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Wolf's Bane book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Santa Grint (The Time Police, #4.5) by Jodi Taylor

28. Santa Grint (The Time Police, #4.5)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.45

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

Pre-order a brand new TIME POLICE short story from million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLE… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's Santa Grint (The Time Police, #4.5) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Broken Roads (A Cormac and Amelia Story) by Carrie Vaughn

29. Broken Roads (A Cormac and Amelia Story)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.46

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

Cormac, a former bounty hunter of supernatural creatures, and Amelia, the essence of a Victorian wi… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Broken Roads (A Cormac and Amelia Story) book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
Cover of Off-Balance by Seanan McGuire

30. Off-Balance

By: Seanan McGuire

4.26

Format: 50 pages, None

It's time for the first Patreon story of 2020! Alice has no sense of self-preservation. Can she o… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance book and Seanan McGuire's Off-Balance

  • urban fantasy
  • paranormal urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Sanctuary (Roman’s Chronicles, #1) by Ilona Andrews

31. Sanctuary (Roman’s Chronicles, #1)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.43

Format: 152 pages, ebook

It’s not easy serving the Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during t… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

18 Top fiction books like Off-Balance by Seanan McGuire

Transform Your Habits

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

Ilona Andrews

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Mirror, Mirror (The Dresden Files, #17)

Jim Butcher

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Ilona Andrews

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3)

Ilona Andrews

4.43

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11 Best fiction books like Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5) by Patricia Briggs

Transform Your Habits

Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, #7)

Ilona Andrews

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Magic Triumphs (Kate Daniels, #10)

Ilona Andrews

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Gunmetal Magic (Kate Daniels, #5.5; World of Kate Daniels, #6 & #6.5; Andrea Nash, #1)

Ilona Andrews

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Ilona Andrews

4.06

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