Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Books

[Freelikeabirdy]

Hi, I love books about the paranormal, witches, vampires, fairy’s, angels etc but a lot are young adult and teen based.
Are there any decent adult ones?

I’ve recently read and loved :
Magisterium by Holly Black
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Unwind trilogy by Neal Shusterman

I agree that a lot of these types of books are YA, or have a young main character (early 20s) that makes them feel as though they are a YA books.

I’d recommend the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn (werewolves), the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris (vampires), Kelley Armstrong’s books (mostly werewolves), and the Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton (though as this series goes on, there’s more sex scenes than plot, to be honest!). Seanan Maguire has written a couple of Urban Fantasy series - the October Daye series is about the Fae, while the Incryptid series is about mythical monsters and monster-hunting.

If you like supernatural mysteries, I’d recommend the Rivers of London series and the Harry Dresden series.

A Discovery of Witches.

Stardust, or maybe American Gods.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

Smiler’s Fair - not witches, vampires, etc, but def fantasy and def for adults!

Ilona Andrews
Nalini Singh
Shelly Laurenston.

All adults, not YA at all.

I recommend Jayne Ann Krentz. She writes adult paranormal fiction as well as other genres

Look out for the Fogg Lake trilogy (best read in order obviously) but she as written others about the paranormal.

I'm not normally into that type of subject but her books are very well written and a good read.

Naomi Novak - both her dragon series and her standalones.

Charlotte English.

Jacquelyn Benson.

Elizabeth Hunter.

I’d second Ilona Andrews - all four series.

Sarah Painter

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London books

Craig Schaefer’s Harmony Black series.

TA White

Rachael Aaron’s Paradox trilogy

Lindsay Buroker has lots of series, but Death Before Dragons is very entertaining.

Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series. .

I came to say Robin Hobb, I really like the Farseer trilogy.

I quite like the Jack Nightingale series by Stephen Leather.

Juliet Marrillier’s Sevenwaters series books have magic and fairies, plus dark magic that threatens to overwhelm the good.

Have you read the Dresden files books? I love the audiobooks of them, and they’re full of wizards and other supernatural beings.

Mike Shevdon's 'The Courts of the Feyre' series is very good.

The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning

What about the Outlander series?