10 books for fans of Ninth House
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Crooked Kingdom
Six of Crows • Book 2
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Betrayed and broken after their heist, Kaz's crew faces enemies from all sides while planning their most impossible con yet. Bardugo's finale delivers emotional payoffs and explosive action sequences.
★ 4.57 Goodreads (779.9K ratings) - 2
Six of Crows
Six of Crows • Book 1
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Seventeen-year-old crime boss Kaz Brekker recruits five dangerous outcasts for a heist that could make them rich—or get them killed in Ketterdam's magic-soaked underworld.
★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M ratings) - 3
Ruin and Rising
Shadow and Bone • Book 3
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Hiding in underground caverns, a weakened Sun Summoner must choose between zealots who worship her as a saint and a broken nation under shadow rule. Bardugo sticks the landing on her complex magic system.
★ 3.97 Goodreads (595.9K ratings) - 4
Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone • Book 1
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When cartographer Alina Starkov manifests rare light-summoning powers crossing the monster-infested Shadow Fold, she becomes both Ravka's salvation and its most valuable prisoner.
★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.1M ratings) - 5
Demon in the Wood
Grishaverse
by Leigh Bardugo, Dani Pendergast
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Before the Shadow Fold and Ravka's Second Army, the future Darkling was just a boy fleeing with his mother — the rarest and most feared Grisha alive.
★ 4.09 Goodreads (51.7K ratings) - 6
Skin Game
The Dresden Files • Book 15
by Jim Butcher
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Mab trades Harry's services to pay off a debt, forcing him to assist Nicodemus and the Denarians in an impossible heist targeting Hades' vault. Butcher combines Ocean's Eleven plotting with Dresden Files mythology while exploring Harry's complicated relationship with power and compromise.
★ 4.56 Goodreads (93.2K ratings) - 7
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 4
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Four castles, fifteen days, and warrior gnomes in a floating fortress—what could go wrong? Dinniman amps up both danger and comedy as Carl faces his most challenging dungeon level yet.
★ 4.55 Goodreads (125.6K ratings) - 8
The Two Towers
Middle-earth • Book 3
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While Frodo creeps toward Mount Doom guided by the treacherous Gollum, Aragorn and company defend Rohan at Helm's Deep in Tolkien's war-torn middle volume.
★ 4.50 Goodreads (1.1M ratings) - 9
Night Watch
Discworld • Book 29
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Commander Vimes gets thrown back in time to his younger days during Ankh-Morpork's revolution, where he must train his past self while hunting a serial killer—Pratchett's darkest Discworld novel about duty, history, and becoming who you need to be.
★ 4.50 Goodreads (119.5K ratings) - 10
The Green Mile
The Green Mile #1-6
by Stephen King
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Death row guard Paul Edgecombe encounters John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of murdering two white children but who seems to possess supernatural healing abilities. King examines justice, racism, and inexplicable grace in Depression-era Louisiana.
★ 4.49 Goodreads (368.7K ratings)