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If you liked The City of Bones, you may like these titles.

Starcrossed
by Josephine Angelini

When shy 16-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three old, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out a version of an ancient tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies and a mythic battle.
Dance of shadows
by Yelena Black

Fifteen-year-old Vanessa follows her sister Margaret to an elite Manhattan ballet school, not only gaining admission but also earning the lead in a production of The Firebird, while trying to uncover why and how Margaret and other lead dancers have disappeared.
The diviners
by Libba Bray

The award-winning author of Beauty Queens presents an evocative mystery in New York City of the Roaring 20s, where Evie O'Neill immerses herself in the world of glamorous Ziegfield girls and speakeasies before helping her uncle, a folklore museum curator, solve a rash of occult-based murders. 150,000 first printing.
A beautiful dark
by Jocelyn Davies

On the night of Skye Parker's 17th birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers--dark, wild and mysterious Asher; and fair, calm Devin--whose sudden appearance coincides with a flurry of strange events then threatens to shatter Skye's world when she is faced with an impossible secret and choice.
Blue bloods
by Melissa De la Cruz

When Schuyler Van Alen, a sophomore at a prestigious New York City private school, turns fifteen, she notices herself going through physical and psychological changes that may have something to do with a fellow coed's murder in which she was found drained of all her blood. Reprint.
Hush, hush
by Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora Grey has never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, until Patch came along; but after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora finds herself in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those who have fallen, and choosing the wrong side will cost her life.
Beautiful creatures
by Kami Garcia

Struggling to conceal her supernatural ability, a curse that has haunted her family for generations, Lena moves to Gatlin County's infamous plantation and inexplicably draws the attention of Ethan, who has been haunted by dreams of an unknown girl.
Hex Hall
by Rachel Hawkins

After a prom-night spell goes horribly wrong, witch Sophie Mercer is exiled to an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students, in the first title of a new YA fantasy series.
The unbecoming of Mara Dyer
by Michelle Hodkin

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends, but after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes that uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
Need
by Carrie Jones

After her stepfather's death, Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small town in Maine, where her new friends tell her that her odd stalker may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls
The iron king
by Julie Kagawa

On the eve of her 16th birthday, Meghan Chase learns that she is the daughter of the summer faery king, and when her half-brother is kidnapped, she must journey into a fantastical world she never imagined to face an unknown enemy and save the people she loves. Original.
Fallen
by Lauren Kate

Starting over in a hostile reform school after her boyfriend dies under suspicious circumstances, 17-year-old Luce learns the dark stories of some of her new classmates and becomes infatuated with handsome Daniel before learning that he is a fallen angel doomed to love and lose the same girl repeatedly.
Grave mercy
by Robin LaFevers

Escaping a brutal arranged marriage into the sanctuary of a convent of assassin nuns who serve ancient gods, 17-year-old Ismae learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts and a violent destiny that requires her to destroy the lives of others at the high court of Brittany. 100,000 first printing.
Wicked lovely
by Melissa Marr

With her one true love by her side, a teenage girl, who has the rare ability to see what others cannot, is chosen by two faery realms to face the ultimate trial, becoming the Summer Queen they have been seeking for more than nine centuries if she succeeds. 100,000 first printing.
Hold me closer, necromancer
by Lish McBride

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer and inadvertently brings himself to the attention of Douglas, a rather creepy guy with an intensely violent streak who also happens to be a necromancer--and one who now wants to team up, or else.
Crash
by Lisa McMann

Sixteen-year-old Jules, whose family owns an Italian restaurant and has a history of mental illness, starts seeing a recurring vision about a rival restaurant, a truck crash and forbidden love.
Prophecy
by Ellen Oh

A demon slayer, the only female warrior in the King's army, must battle demon soldiers, an evil shaman and the Demon Lord to find the lost ruby of the Dragon King's prophecy and save her kingdom. 30,000 first printing.
The demon trapper's daughter : a Demon trapper novel
by Jane Oliver

In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, after a demon threatens seventeen-year-old Riley Blackthorne's life and murders her father, a legendary demon trapper to whom she was apprenticed, her father's partner, Beck, steps in to care for her, knowing she hates him
Hemlock
by Kathleen Peacock

Haunted by the ghost of her best friend Amy, whom an extremist group believes was murdered by a white werewolf, Mackenzie learns about a werewolf virus that is spreading throughout the country, and in her pursuit of the truth, Mac is thrown into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal that puts her life at risk. 40,000 first printing.
Die for me
by Amy Plum

After their parents are killed in a car accident, 16-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent, who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Embrace
by Jessica Shirvington

While Violet considers a dangerous choice in the wake of a painful betrayal and an enemy's unexpected help, Lincoln hides the true reason about why he has been training Violet and Phoenix harbors a secret agenda.
Lament : the faerie queen's deception
by Maggie Stiefvater

On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerieworld. Original.
Daughter of smoke & bone
by Laini Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known, in a unique fantasy by an award-winning author about forbidden love, an epic battle and hope for a world remade.
Paranormalcy
by Kiersten White

When a dark prophecy begins to come true, 16-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend. 75,000 first printing.
KD 12/14

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