Supernatural Fantasy Books: Best Reads

Supernatural fantasy centers on ghosts, spirits, hauntings and strange forces brushing against mortal lives. These stories suit readers who enjoy eerie atmospheres and uncanny intrusions into familiar worlds.

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Apr 13, 2026 Last updated
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97 The Magpie Lord

The Magpie Lord

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Rated 4.05 out of 5 stars, based on 25,076 reviews.

The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles blends historical fantasy, mystery, and queer romance in Victorian England. Lucien Vaudrey, newly and unwillingly returned from long exile in China, finds himself the unexpected earl and the target of lethal, possibly…

Book 1 of A Charm of Magpies series


98 Book of Shadows

Book of Shadows

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Rated 4.05 out of 5 stars, based on 27,933 reviews.

In Book of Shadows, Cate Tiernan introduces Morgan, a seemingly ordinary high school student whose life in a contemporary small town is disrupted by unexpected signs of magic. As she begins to sense hidden energies and abilities that set her apart fr…

Book 1 of Wicca series


99 Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

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Rated 4.04 out of 5 stars, based on 21,807 reviews.

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer is a Regency-era fantasy told through letters between two cousins, Kate in London and Cecelia in the countryside. As Kate navigates a social season entangle…

Book 1 of Cecelia and Kate series


100 Dead Witch Walking

Dead Witch Walking

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Rated 4.04 out of 5 stars, based on 129,743 reviews.

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison introduces Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter working the dangerous supernatural beat in Cincinnati’s paranormal district known as the Hollows. Tasked with policing vampires, witches, and other magical beings,…

Book 1 of The Hollows series


101 Seven Years

Seven Years

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Rated 4.04 out of 5 stars, based on 20,526 reviews.

Seven Years by Dannika Dark opens with Lexi Knight still grieving her brother’s death seven years later, her life upended again when his former best friend, Austin Cole, returns without warning. Once the boy next door and now a hardened, tattooed Shi…

Book 1 of Seven series


102 Revenge of the Witch

Revenge of the Witch

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Rated 4.03 out of 5 stars, based on 54,505 reviews.

Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith, introduces Thomas Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, who is bound to a dangerous apprenticeship with the local Spook. Tasked with learning how to confront ghosts, restrain…

Book 1 of The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles series


103 First Grave on the Right

First Grave on the Right

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Rated 4.03 out of 5 stars, based on 92,365 reviews.

First Grave on the Right introduces Charley Davidson, a sardonic private investigator who also serves as a grim reaper, able to see and talk with the dead. Her unusual clients are murder victims who push her to uncover the truth behind their deaths,…

Book 1 of Charley Davidson series


104 Bitten

Bitten

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Rated 4.03 out of 5 stars, based on 106,106 reviews.

In Bitten, Kelley Armstrong introduces Elena Michaels, the only known female werewolf, who is determined to reclaim an ordinary human existence in Toronto. After years enforcing Pack law and tracking dangerous rogues, she has walked away from their v…

Book 1 of Women of the Otherworld series


105 Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

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Rated 4.02 out of 5 stars, based on 153,930 reviews.

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton introduces Anita Blake, a professional vampire executioner and supernatural investigator working in a version of St. Louis where vampires are legally protected citizens. When a series of brutal murders targets…

Book 1 of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series


106 The Summoning

The Summoning

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Rated 4.02 out of 5 stars, based on 176,952 reviews.

In The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong introduces Chloe Saunders, a teenager whose ordinary life unravels the day she begins seeing ghosts. After a disturbing incident at school, she is sent to a group home for troubled teens, where the residents and sta…

Book 1 of Darkest Powers series


107 A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches

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Rated 4.02 out of 5 stars, based on 562,186 reviews.

In A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness introduces Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch whose routine research in Oxford’s Bodleian Library uncovers a long-lost alchemical manuscript bound by powerful magic. Her brief contact with the te…

Book 1 of All Souls series


108 Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire

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Rated 4.02 out of 5 stars, based on 656,434 reviews.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice unfolds as an extended conversation between a young reporter and Louis, a centuries-old vampire recounting his existence. Moving from eighteenth-century New Orleans plantations to shadowed city streets, Louis d…

Book 1 of The Vampire Chronicles series


109 Nightshade

Nightshade

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Rated 4.02 out of 5 stars, based on 84,636 reviews.

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer introduces Calla Tor, a young alpha werewolf raised to believe her future is fixed: she will lead alongside Ren Laroche and serve the powerful Keepers who control their world. After she secretly rescues a human boy in the…

Book 1 of Nightshade series


110 Dark Prince

Dark Prince

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Rated 4.01 out of 5 stars, based on 60,003 reviews.

Dark Prince by Christine Feehan introduces the Carpathians, an immortal, supernatural race whose males risk becoming vampires if they never find their destined life mate. Psychic Raven Whitney retreats to the remote Carpathian Mountains after using h…

Book 1 of Dark series


111 Silver in the Wood

Silver in the Wood

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Rated 4.01 out of 5 stars, based on 24,249 reviews.

Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) by Emily Tesh follows Tobias, a solitary figure bound to the forest of Greenhollow, where he lives quietly with his cat and dryads. The arrival of Henry Silver, the new owner of Greenhollow Hall, disru…

Book 1 of The Greenhollow Duology series


112 The Spellshop

The Spellshop

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Rated 4.00 out of 5 stars, based on 159,944 reviews.

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst follows Kiela, an introverted librarian who escapes a burning imperial library with her sentient spider plant assistant and a cache of forbidden spellbooks. Hiding on the remote island where she grew up, she tries to…

Book 1 of Spellshop series


113 Ninth House

Ninth House

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Rated 4.00 out of 5 stars, based on 409,485 reviews.

In Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo shifts to adult dark fantasy with a supernatural mystery set amid Yale’s secret societies. Galaxy “Alex” Stern, a trauma-scarred college freshman with a history of drugs and violence, is recruited to the university under…

Book 1 of Alex Stern series


114 A Marvellous Light

A Marvellous Light

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Rated 3.93 out of 5 stars, based on 51,987 reviews.

A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske is set in an alternate Edwardian England where magic exists alongside societal expectations. The story follows young baronet Robin Blyth, who unexpectedly becomes the parliamentary liaison to…

Book 1 of The Last Binding series


115 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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Rated 3.90 out of 5 stars, based on 82,418 reviews.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1) by N.K. Jemisin follows Yeine Darr, a young woman from the northern tribes who is unexpectedly summoned to the floating city of Sky after her mother's death. Named an heiress to the ruling king,…

Book 1 of Inheritance Trilogy series