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Books like City of Bones

Loved City of Bones by Cassandra Clare? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from young adult, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins · 2008 · Young Adult

    A girl volunteers for a televised fight to the death to save her sister; a propulsive, sharp dystopian thriller.

  2. 2

    The Fault in Our Stars

    John Green · 2012 · Young Adult

    Two teenagers with cancer fall in love; funny and heartbreaking without ever being saccharine.

  3. 3

    The Hate U Give

    Angie Thomas · 2017 · Young Adult

    A teenager witnesses a police shooting and finds her voice; urgent, powerful and humane.

  4. 4

    The Titan's Curse

    Rick Riordan · 2007 · Young Adult

    When Percy Jackson gets an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he will need his powerful demigod allies at his side, his trusty bronze sword Ripti

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    An Abundance of Katherines

    John Green · 2006 · Young Adult

    Katherine V thought boys were gross Katherine X just wanted to be friends Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail K-19 broke his heart When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to

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    Eclipse

    Stephenie Meyer · 2006 · Young Adult

    Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot

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    Paper Towns

    John Green · 2008 · Young Adult

    One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neigh

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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    John Boyne · 2006 · Young Adult

    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne.

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    The Graveyard Book

    Neil Gaiman · 2008 · Young Adult

    Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiqu

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    Wintersmith

    Terry Pratchett · 2006 · Young Adult

    Tiffany Aching accidentally starts to transform into an anthropomorphic representation of Summer, due to her being unable to resist a good dance, meanwhile the Wintersmith is looking for his destined

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