Recommendations based on Hex and the Cityby Simon R. Green

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  1. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

    by Simon R. Green
    A thrilling fantasy adventure set in a magical world of mystery, danger and intrigue.

    My name is John Taylor. I’m a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale—for the ... (Goodreads)

  2. Paths Not Taken

    by Simon R. Green
    A collection of short stories featuring alternate realities and unexpected twists. Each story explores the consequences of different choices.

    John Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside—the dark heart of London—and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very ... (Goodreads)

  3. Something from the Nightside

    by Simon R. Green
    Detective uncovers the secrets of a mysterious and dangerous world, hidden in the shadows of London.

    John Taylor is not a private detective per se , but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London ... (Goodreads)

  4. Death Masks

    by Jim Butcher
    A magical detective's mission to protect an ancient artifact from a powerful necromancer.

    Harry shares a TV panel with a Vatican priest, Father Vincent, and São Paulo University Professor Don Paolo Ortega , a disguised Red Court Vampire noble. Father Vincent hires Dresden to recover the ... (Wikipedia)

  5. Dead Witch Walking

    by Kim Harrison
    A dark urban fantasy about a witch's fight for survival in a world of humans, demons and vampires.

    All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond ... (Goodreads)

  6. Sourcery

    by Terry Pratchett
    A wizard uses his magic to take over the Discworld, and a young man must fight to restore order.

    Death comes to collect the soul of Ipslore the Red, a wizard who was banished from Unseen University for marrying and having children, something forbidden for wizards. Bitter over this fate, Ipslore ... (Wikipedia)

  7. Fool Moon

    by Jim Butcher
    A wizard detective must solve a supernatural mystery with intrigue and danger.

    After the events in, Storm Front, , Kim Delaney, whom Dresden helped to control her magical talents, asks Dresden how to create a set of three magical circles, which could be used to contain powerful ... (Wikipedia)

  8. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

    by Max Brooks
    A collection of interviews recounting tales of the zombie apocalypse.

    It has been nearly twenty years since the start of the apocalyptic worldwide pandemic known as the Zombie War, and about ten years since the war has ended in humanity's victory. The framing device ... (Wikipedia)

  9. Neverwhere

    by Neil Gaiman
    A mysterious journey through a hidden realm of London, filled with danger and unexpected allies.

    Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew and his trials and tribulations in London. At the start of the story, he is a young businessman, recently moved from Scotland and with a normal life ahead. ... (Wikipedia)

  10. Eric

    by Terry Pratchett
    A young boy's adventures in a fantasy world, discovering the secrets of the Discworld.

    The story is a parody of the tale of Faust , , and follows the events of, Sourcery, in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions. The Discworld version of Hell or Pandemonium ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Storm Front

    by Jim Butcher
    A wizard detective investigates a mysterious magical murder in modern Chicago.

    Dresden is hired by a Monica Sells to find her husband Victor Sells, an amateur magician who has been acting oddly. Later that day, he gets a call from Lieutenant Karrin Murphy, director of the ... (Wikipedia)

  12. Old Man's War

    by John Scalzi
    Elderly citizens enlist in an interstellar war to save humanity, discovering new strength and purpose.

    Old Man's War is about a soldier named John Perry and his exploits in the Colonial Defense Forces (CDF). The first-person narrative follows Perry's military career from CDF recruit to the rank of ... (Wikipedia)

  13. Queen of Sorcery

    by David Eddings
    The second book in the Belgariad series follows Garion and his companions as they continue their quest to defeat the evil god Torak.

    The Trail of Prophecy... Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again ... (Goodreads)

  14. Dauntless

    by Jack Campbell
    A space pilot's adventure to save the human race from alien invaders.

    John 'Black Jack' Geary has recently been rescued from a 100-year-old escape pod with a damaged beacon. He was the commanding officer of an early battle in what has become a century-old war between ... (Wikipedia)

  15. Mort

    by Terry Pratchett
    A Discworld fantasy novel about a young man's journey to save a princess from a magical kingdom.

    As a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an ... (Wikipedia)

  16. The Lost Colony

    by Eoin Colfer
    An adventurous group of teens travel to a mysterious island to unravel its secrets.

    In Barcelona , Spain, Artemis Fowl II and Butler, his bodyguard, wait for a demon . They suddenly encounter a demon who transports Artemis through time. Before Artemis is lost in time, Butler is able ... (Wikipedia)

  17. The Opal Deception

    by Eoin Colfer
    Artful master criminal Artemis Fowl must save a passenger spaceship and its passengers from a dangerous criminal.

    The book begins with the pixie Opal Koboi faking a coma inside a hospital to avoid incarceration by the Lower Elements Police (LEP) after her failed rebellion and attempt of world domination (which ... (Wikipedia)

  18. The Crystal Shard

    by R.A. Salvatore
    Epic fantasy adventure, as a group of unlikely heroes join forces to save their kingdom from an evil wizard.

    Even in the remote far northern region of Icewind Dale , the renegade dark elf ranger Drizzt Do'Urden is not fully accepted, except by the dwarves whom he had eventually befriended. He roams the ... (Wikipedia)

  19. Reliquary

    by Douglas Preston
    A thrilling adventure full of unexpected twists and turns, uncovering a hidden relic with immense power.

    The story picks up where the epilogue of Relic left off. Two headless skeletons are found in the Humboldt Kill. When further decapitated bodies follow, there is suspicion of a second Mbwun monster. ... (Wikipedia)

  20. The Merchant of Death

    by D.J. MacHale
    Bobby Pendragon is a normal teenager until he discovers his destiny as a traveler between worlds, fighting to save them from destruction.

    D.J. MacHale’s, New York Times, bestselling middle grade fantasy series about Bobby Pendragon, a regular kid about to find himself and his two friends pulled into one epic adventure across worlds! ... (Barnes & Noble)

  21. Grave Sight

    by Charlaine Harris
    A young woman uses her supernatural powers to uncover a murderer in a small town.

    Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1) Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share ... (Goodreads)

  22. Snow Crash

    by Neal Stephenson
    A hacker's quest in a futuristic America dealing with a mysterious computer virus.

    Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia. He meets Y.T. (short for Yours Truly), a young skateboard Kourier ( courier ) who refers to herself in the third person , during ... (Wikipedia)

  23. The Great Book of Amber

    by Roger Zelazny
    A magical and thrilling journey through magical planes of existence.

    Alternate cover edition can be found , here , Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. Now, here are all ten novels, together in one ... (Goodreads)

  24. The Doll's House

    by Neil Gaiman
    A dark fantasy exploring the cruelty and power of fairy tales, and the consequences of secrets.

    As part of a manhood ritual, an old man in the desert tells a younger man an ancient story, detailing the tragic love between Dream and Queen Nada. Fearing the consequences of loving an immortal, ... (Wikipedia)

  25. Magic Bites

    by Ilona Andrews
    A female private investigator hunts monsters while searching for answers about her mysterious past.

    Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1, New York Times, bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels… When the magic is up, rogue ... (Barnes & Noble)

  26. The Eternity Code

    by Eoin Colfer
    An exciting adventure story of a young genius trying to outwit a powerful criminal organization.

    Artemis Fowl II , the 13-year-old criminal mastermind, has created a supercomputer which he calls the "C Cube", from the stolen fairy LEPrecon helmets confiscated by Butler in the siege of Fowl ... (Wikipedia)

  27. Fearless

    by Jack Campbell
    Captain John "Black Jack" Geary awakens from a century-long cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance Fleet against the Syndicate Worlds.

    This is the second book in the Lost Fleet series that follows the adventures of Black Jack Geary. This novel begins with Geary and the fleet arriving in the Sutrah system. Disobeying orders, four of ... (Wikipedia)

  28. Saga #1

    by Brian K. Vaughan
    A star-crossed couple in an intergalactic conflict between human and alien races.

    Each issue of Saga is titled with a numerical Chapter, such as "Chapter 1" for the debut issue. Every six chapters comprise a story arc designated as a "Volume" and are reprinted as trade paperbacks. ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Monster Hunter International

    by Larry Correia
    A group of mercenaries hunt monsters for a living, but when a powerful entity threatens the world, they must band together to save humanity.

    Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out ... (Goodreads)

  30. Passage to Dawn

    by R.A. Salvatore
    Epic fantasy tale about a young warrior on a quest to save a forgotten kingdom.

    Passage to Dawn finds Drizzt and Catti-brie aboard the Sea Sprite six years after the events of the previous novel (, Siege of Darkness, , 1994), with the company of its captain, Deudermont, its ... (Wikipedia)