For Fans
Deb’s Bookshelf
Many readers ask me about my favorite books. If you’re looking to deepen your understanding of topics covered in the All Souls series, I’ve compiled these lists of some of the academic work I consulted in the course of my writing.
If you’re looking for recent books that I’ve enjoyed and would recommend, you can find many titles on my BOOKBUB page and my GOODREADS page.
And below, here are a few more fiction titles that may be of particular interest to fans of the All Souls Series.
Historical Fiction
If you like historical fiction, try:
Dorothy Dunnett’s six-volume Crawford of Lymond series, starting with The Game of Kings
Dorothy Dunnett’s eight-volume House of Niccolò series, starting with Niccolò Rising (note: the action takes place BEFORE the Crawford of Lymond Series, but it is a prequel and should be read after)
Iain Pears’s The Instance of the Fingerpost
Mysteries
If you like book mysteries, try:
A. S. Byatt’s Possession
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
If you like mysteries with great female protagonists, try:
Deborah Crombie’s Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series, starting with A Share in Death
Laurie King’s Mary Russell series, starting with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Time Travel
If you like time travel, try:
Connie Willis’s Doomsday
Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander
Witches & Magical Beings
If you like books about witches and other magical beings, try:
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (the first in the Mayfair Witches series)
V. E. Schwab A Darker Shade of Magic (the first in a trilogy)
Danielle Trussoni, Angelology
Parallel Worlds
If you like the idea of a marvelous world existing alongside our own, try:
Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, starting with The Eyre Affair
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook
The Magic of Childhood
If you are longing for the magic of childhood, why not reread:
Edward Eager’s Half Magic
J. K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond