urban fantasy series
The best urban fantasy series
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The best urban fantasy
series
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By an Amazon.com customer
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Working for the Devil (Dante
Valentine, Book 1) by
Lilith Saintcrow
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.00
Our introduction to Dante Valentine, a
strong, yet vulnerable bounty hunter and
necromance.
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book
1) by Jim
Butcher
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.75
Our introduction to Harry Dresden, a
wizard who advertises in the Chicago
yellow pages. Wisecracking and prone to
trouble ...
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Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire
Mysteries, Book 1) by
Charlaine Harris
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.20
A funny series about a telepathic barmaid
and vampires with a few weres thrown in.
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Grave Sight (Harper Connelly
Mysteries, Book 1) by
Charlaine Harris
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.45
Harper can find the dead after being
struck by lightning when she was younger.
Whodoneit with a paranormal bent.
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Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty
Norville Series, Book 1) by
Carrie Vaughn
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.07
Kitty is a werewolf who accidentally
begins a paranormal talk radio show. This
series has real depth and a great
application of a young woman finding her
strength.
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Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Series,
Book 1) by Patricia Briggs
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.50
Mercy is a mechanic and a skinwalker, and
is linked to the werewolves. Great
writing and characters
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Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer
Series, Book 1) by
Karen Chance
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.14
Cassandra is a seer who was raised by the
vampire mob. She's stuck between a rock
and a hard place. Both the "good" guys
and the "bad" guys want control of her
power - or dead.
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Nightlife
(Cal Leandros, Book 1) by
Rob Thurman
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.90
Cal is a half-human half-monster. He's a
teenager in the care of his older
brother, Nico, and his long-lost dad and
his monster relatives want him back for
something bad..
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Tinker
(Baen Fantasy) by
Wen Spencer
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.91
Set in a world where Pittsburgh travels
to the Elfhome world with intermittent
visits back to earth. Tinker is an 18
year old prodigy who becomes embroiled in
the Elven world.
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Alien Taste (Ukiah Oregon
Novels) by Wen Spencer
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.78
Ukiah Oregon was raised by wolves, but is
alien in nature. His foster mothers took
him in, but he's found his "family" and
they're in a long-running battle to save
the Earth from being overrun by other
alien organisms.
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book
1) by Naomi
Novik
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.29
Will Laurence is a ship's captain who
comes across a dragon egg that
unexpectedly hatches on the deck of his
ship. Termeraire, as she calls herself,
ensures that Laurence is drafted into the
Aeriel Corps to fight in the Napoleonic
wars.
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Unshapely
Things by Mark Del Franco
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.38
Connor is a druid who's lost his mojo,
but is still called upon to help solve
paranormal crimes.
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Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake,
Vampire Hunter: Book 1) by
Laurell K. Hamilton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.97
Love her or hate her, most agree that the
early Anita Blake books are worth
reading.
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Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book
1) by Kelley
Armstrong
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.99
The women of the otherworld series
follows a few women who are werewolves,
witches, or necromancers. Good stuff.
Bitten and Stolen feature Elena the
werewolf.
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Dead Witch Walking (Rachel Morgan,
Book 1) by Kim Harrison
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.50
Rachel Morgan is a screwball witch who
manages to survive a death curse and who
starts her own detective agency with a
living vampire and a pixie in a world
where a virus in mutated tomatoes killed
off a large % of the population, forcing
the "others" to come out of the closet.
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The Becoming (The Anna Strong
Chronicles, Book 1) by
Jeanne C. Stein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.92
Anna is a bounty hunter who is attacked
and turned into a vampire. She's in
search of her attacker and learns more
about vampire culture.
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Stray
(Werecats, Book 1) by
Rachel Vincent
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.44
Faythe is a werecat who wanted a real
life away from the pack ... but who is
drawn back in after a serial killer
starts on the female members.
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Dancing With Werewolves: Delilah
Street, Paranormal
Investigator by Carole Nelson Douglas
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.75
The plot has a few bumps, but the good
parts definitely outweigh the flaws; it's
a strong entry to what is sure to become
an even better series.
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, Book
1) by Ilona
Andrews
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.97
Another strong heroine to admire.
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The Scent of Shadows (Sign of the
Zodiac, Book 1) by
Vicki Pettersson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.67
An interesting take on comic book
superheroes.
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The Devil Inside (Morgan Kingsley,
Exorcist, Book 1) by
Jenna Black
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.48
A good start to an interesting take on
demon posession.
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Tempting Danger (The World of the
Lupi, Book 1) by Eileen Wilks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.03
A realistic and strong romantic element
to this series.
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Urban Shaman (The Walker Papers, Book
1) by C.E.
Murphy
Buy new: $12.30 / Used from: $6.70
An interesting combination of Native
American and Celtic legends.
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Cast in Shadow (The Chronicles of
Elantra, Book 1) by
Michelle Sagara
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.05
More fantasy than urban fantasy, but very
dark, edgy, and mysterious.
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Ill Wind (Weather Warden, Book
1) by Rachel
Caine
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.60
Get used to reading on the edge of your
seat and be glad there are already six
books in this series - they all end on
cliffhangers!
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Magic
Lost, Trouble Found by
Lisa Shearin
Again more fantasy than urban fantasy,
but a great first book about an elven
seeker who gets stuck with an evil piece
of jewelry.
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Poison
Study (Study, Book 1) by
Maria V. Snyder
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $6.00
Another straightforward fantasy, but
excellent. Yelena is saved from execution
with the offer to be the Commander's food
taster.
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Night Life (Nocturne City, Book
1) by Caitlin
Kittredge
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.59
A werewolf police officer.
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Cry Wolf (Alpha and Omega, Book
1) by Patricia Briggs
Buy new: $7.99
A variant on her Mercy books, this series
follows Charles & Anna, introduced in
the anthology "On the Prowl". Published
this Spring.
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Dead To
Me by Anton Strout
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.62
This book has some early good press.
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Black Magic Woman (Quincy Morris
Supernatural Investigation) by
Justin Gustainis
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.99
Several excellent authors have given this
series their seal of approval: Lilith
Saintcrow, Jim Butcher, and Simon Green,
among them. Soon-to-be-published.
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The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, Book
1) by Marjorie M. Liu
Buy new: $7.99
A new urban fantasy series
soon-to-be-published by excellent author
Marjorie Liu.
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Wicked
Game by Jeri Smith-Ready
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.97
Looks like an interesting take on
vampires and radio stations. Published in
May, 2008
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Night
Shift (Jill Kismet Novels)
by Lilith
Saintcrow
Buy new: $6.99
The incomparable Lili starts a new series
about Jill Kismet, a Hunter.
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