⚙️ Victorian Steampunk

Reimagined nineteenth-century worlds powered by fantastical technology, where brass gears and steam engines fuel adventures beyond history's boundaries.

The Professor Wore Prussian Blue

by Shelley Adina • 2022

Pirates take her fiancé. Daisy and her medium sister rally a found family to steal him back.

4.41

167

🚀 Steampunk Airships 👻 Mediumship 💣 Heist And Sabotage

The Professor Wore Prussian Blue Summary

The Professor Wore Prussian Blue 91%

Pirates take her fiancé. Daisy and her medium sister rally a found family to steal him back.

by Shelley Adina 2022

4.41

167 ratings

🚀 Steampunk Airships 👻 Mediumship 💣 Heist And Sabotage

The Diamond Age

by Neal Stephenson • 1995

A stolen, sentient primer teaches a poor girl to read, then to lead an army.

4.16

94k+

📖 Sentient Book 🤱 Surrogate Mother 👑 Child Leader

The Diamond Age 91%

A stolen, sentient primer teaches a poor girl to read, then to lead an army.

by Neal Stephenson 1995

4.16

94k+ ratings

📖 Sentient Book 🤱 Surrogate Mother 👑 Child Leader

The Kidnapper's Accomplice

by C.J. Archer • 2020

Victorian London. Her cousin is kidnapped. Bombs threaten the city. The ransom: her rare magic.

4.05

7k+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🎩 Victorian England 🫂 Found Family

The Kidnapper's Accomplice 90%

Victorian London. Her cousin is kidnapped. Bombs threaten the city. The ransom: her rare magic.

by C.J. Archer 2020

4.05

7k+ ratings

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🎩 Victorian England 🫂 Found Family

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools

by G.P. Taylor • 2009

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

3.92

118

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools Summary

Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools 90%

A teen agent boards a doomed steamship, hunted by assassins and haunted by the dead.

by G.P. Taylor 2009

3.92

118 ratings

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy 🌊 Maritime Disaster 🎪 Circus Of Horrors

The Dancer Wore Opera Rose

by Shelley Adina • 2018

A dancer vanishes in steampunk Santa Fe as two sisters hunt their missing father.

4.20

242

🕰️ Steampunk Mystery 🤠 Alternative Western 👯 Sister Devotion

The Dancer Wore Opera Rose 90%

A dancer vanishes in steampunk Santa Fe as two sisters hunt their missing father.

by Shelley Adina 2018

4.20

242 ratings

🕰️ Steampunk Mystery 🤠 Alternative Western 👯 Sister Devotion

Storm Glass

by Jeff Wheeler • 2018

An orphan who sees ghosts is taken into a sky manor, but the housekeeper wants her dead.

4.21

19k+

⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🏠 Found Family

Storm Glass 90%

An orphan who sees ghosts is taken into a sky manor, but the housekeeper wants her dead.

by Jeff Wheeler 2018

4.21

19k+ ratings

⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 👧 Orphan Protagonist 🏠 Found Family

The Engineer Wore Venetian Red

by Shelley Adina • 2020

Two sisters search steampunk San Francisco for their father and find a deadly plot beneath the city.

4.32

185

🕰️ Alternate History 🤝 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bond

The Engineer Wore Venetian Red 90%

Two sisters search steampunk San Francisco for their father and find a deadly plot beneath the city.

by Shelley Adina 2020

4.32

185 ratings

🕰️ Alternate History 🤝 Found Family 👯 Sisterly Bond

Clockwork Angel

by Cassandra Clare • 2010

Seized in Victorian London, Tessa Gray discovers a shapeshifting gift dark forces want to weaponize.

4.30

881k+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy ⚔️ Demon Hunters 💔 Love Triangle

Clockwork Angel 90%

Seized in Victorian London, Tessa Gray discovers a shapeshifting gift dark forces want to weaponize.

by Cassandra Clare 2010

4.30

881k+ ratings

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy ⚔️ Demon Hunters 💔 Love Triangle

The Flaw in All Magic

by Ben S. Dobson • 2017

An expelled scholar without magic returns to campus: someone has died inside an impenetrable ward.

4.11

3k+

🔍 Magical Whodunit ⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 🧠 Magicless Hero

The Flaw in All Magic 90%

An expelled scholar without magic returns to campus: someone has died inside an impenetrable ward.

by Ben S. Dobson 2017

4.11

3k+ ratings

🔍 Magical Whodunit ⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 🧠 Magicless Hero

The Hod King

by Josiah Bancroft • 2019

In a city of masks, a spy probes a colosseum's rot, forbidden to touch the duchess he married.

4.43

14k+

⚙️ Airship Adventure 🎭 Undercover Identity ✊ Slave Rebellion

The Hod King 89%

In a city of masks, a spy probes a colosseum's rot, forbidden to touch the duchess he married.

by Josiah Bancroft 2019

4.43

14k+ ratings

⚙️ Airship Adventure 🎭 Undercover Identity ✊ Slave Rebellion

Senlin Ascends

by Josiah Bancroft • 2013

When his wife vanishes at the Tower of Babel, a schoolmaster must brave its perilous ringdoms.

4.11

34k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

Senlin Ascends 89%

When his wife vanishes at the Tower of Babel, a schoolmaster must brave its perilous ringdoms.

by Josiah Bancroft 2013

4.11

34k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ⚙️ Steampunk Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

Wrayth

by Philippa Ballantine • 2012

A paralyzed Deacon enters a nightmare fortress to uncover the truth hidden in her blood.

3.90

1k+

🚂 Steampunk Fantasy 🔗 Psychic Partnership 🐺 Monster Within

Wrayth 89%

A paralyzed Deacon enters a nightmare fortress to uncover the truth hidden in her blood.

by Philippa Ballantine 2012

3.90

1k+ ratings

🚂 Steampunk Fantasy 🔗 Psychic Partnership 🐺 Monster Within

Time of Trial

by Michael Pryor • 2009

A magical cure makes him an unwitting assassin. The sorcerer behind it is engineering a war.

4.17

427

🗺️ Alternate Europe 🕵️ Magical Espionage ✨ Soul Magic

Time of Trial 89%

A magical cure makes him an unwitting assassin. The sorcerer behind it is engineering a war.

by Michael Pryor 2009

4.17

427 ratings

🗺️ Alternate Europe 🕵️ Magical Espionage ✨ Soul Magic

The Judge Wore Lamp Black

by Shelley Adina • 2021

An airship brings two sisters to a frontier judge; his murder leaves their father accused.

4.38

185

🔧 Steampunk Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuths 👻 Ghost Witnesses

The Judge Wore Lamp Black 89%

An airship brings two sisters to a frontier judge; his murder leaves their father accused.

by Shelley Adina 2021

4.38

185 ratings

🔧 Steampunk Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuths 👻 Ghost Witnesses

The Alloy of Law

by Brandon Sanderson • 2011

A gunslinging lord must hunt a phantom gang that stole his fiancée from a wedding dinner.

4.19

294k+

🚂 Flintlock Fantasy 🎩 Reluctant Nobleman 🤠 Buddy Adventure

The Alloy of Law 89%

A gunslinging lord must hunt a phantom gang that stole his fiancée from a wedding dinner.

by Brandon Sanderson 2011

4.19

294k+ ratings

🚂 Flintlock Fantasy 🎩 Reluctant Nobleman 🤠 Buddy Adventure

The Bride Wore Constant White

by Shelley Adina • 2018

Two sisters hunt a killer in the steampunk West when their mail-order bride friend is murdered.

4.09

351

🤠 Steampunk Western 👰 Mail-Order Bride 👥 Found Family

The Bride Wore Constant White 89%

Two sisters hunt a killer in the steampunk West when their mail-order bride friend is murdered.

by Shelley Adina 2018

4.09

351 ratings

🤠 Steampunk Western 👰 Mail-Order Bride 👥 Found Family

Word of Honour

by Michael Pryor • 2008

A magician whose spells drain his soul tracks saboteurs into the darkness beneath his city.

4.14

550

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏛️ Alternate History ⚡ Magic With A Cost

Word of Honour 89%

A magician whose spells drain his soul tracks saboteurs into the darkness beneath his city.

by Michael Pryor 2008

4.14

550 ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏛️ Alternate History ⚡ Magic With A Cost

The Toymaker's Curse

by C.J. Archer • 2021

A stolen spell entangles a Victorian watchmaker in a murder and a conspiracy to control magic.

4.09

6k+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚙️ Magical Artisans

The Toymaker's Curse 89%

A stolen spell entangles a Victorian watchmaker in a murder and a conspiracy to control magic.

by C.J. Archer 2021

4.09

6k+ ratings

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚙️ Magical Artisans

Library of Souls

by Ransom Riggs • 2015

A monster-taming boy enters a Victorian slum to save his friends from a man hunting souls.

4.14

164k+

🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden Magical World 🎪 Dark Whimsy

Library of Souls 89%

A monster-taming boy enters a Victorian slum to save his friends from a man hunting souls.

by Ransom Riggs 2015

4.14

164k+ ratings

🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden Magical World 🎪 Dark Whimsy

Dreadnought

by Cherie Priest • 2010

Trapped on a Union war train, a nurse discovers its cargo of corpses is rising hungry.

3.87

8k+

🏜️ Weird West 💉 Wartime Nurse 🚂 Journey By Train

Dreadnought 89%

Trapped on a Union war train, a nurse discovers its cargo of corpses is rising hungry.

by Cherie Priest 2010

3.87

8k+ ratings

🏜️ Weird West 💉 Wartime Nurse 🚂 Journey By Train

Geist

by Philippa Ballantine • 2010

A Deacon and a cursed Pretender hunt the traitors rewriting the boundary between life and death.

3.64

4k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ✨ Rune Magic 🖤 Psychic Bond

Geist 89%

A Deacon and a cursed Pretender hunt the traitors rewriting the boundary between life and death.

by Philippa Ballantine 2010

3.64

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ✨ Rune Magic 🖤 Psychic Bond

Blaze of Glory

by Michael Pryor • 2006

A half-dead young magician, a royal hunting party, and a conspiracy to assassinate the Crown Prince.

3.79

1k+

🛠️ Steampunk Fantasy 🧪 Magic As Science 💀 Death Magic

Blaze of Glory 89%

A half-dead young magician, a royal hunting party, and a conspiracy to assassinate the Crown Prince.

by Michael Pryor 2006

3.79

1k+ ratings

🛠️ Steampunk Fantasy 🧪 Magic As Science 💀 Death Magic

The Imposter's Inheritance

by C.J. Archer • 2020

When a magical coronet disappears, a watch magician follows the clues into London's secret trade.

4.04

8k+

🕰️ Victorian Fantasy 🔍 Married Sleuths 💎 Magical Heist

The Imposter's Inheritance 89%

When a magical coronet disappears, a watch magician follows the clues into London's secret trade.

by C.J. Archer 2020

4.04

8k+ ratings

🕰️ Victorian Fantasy 🔍 Married Sleuths 💎 Magical Heist

Clockwork Princess

by Cassandra Clare • 2013

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

4.55

479k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

Clockwork Princess 89%

Her fiancé is dying. His best friend secretly loves her. The cure demands her surrender.

by Cassandra Clare 2013

4.55

479k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

Clockwork Prince

by Cassandra Clare • 2011

Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.

4.42

588k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

Clockwork Prince 89%

Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.

by Cassandra Clare 2011

4.42

588k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle

The Time Ships

by Stephen Baxter • 1995

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

3.95

7k+

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War

The Time Ships 89%

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

by Stephen Baxter 1995

3.95

7k+ ratings

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War

The Midas Box

by G.P. Taylor • 2008

At a gothic seaside hotel, an orphan discovers every boy hired before him has disappeared.

3.46

706

🚂 Steampunk Fantasy 🏨 Gothic Hotel 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

The Midas Box 89%

At a gothic seaside hotel, an orphan discovers every boy hired before him has disappeared.

by G.P. Taylor 2008

3.46

706 ratings

🚂 Steampunk Fantasy 🏨 Gothic Hotel 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne • 1872

A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.

3.95

286k+

🎩 Victorian Adventure ⏱️ Race Against Clock 🤝 Unlikely Companions

Around the World in Eighty Days 89%

A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.

by Jules Verne 1872

3.95

286k+ ratings

🎩 Victorian Adventure ⏱️ Race Against Clock 🤝 Unlikely Companions

The Silence Factory

by Bridget Collins • 2024

Seeking silence for his grief, a widower finds a factory where spiders spin refuge and ruin.

3.42

4k+

🔗 Industrial Gothic 👻 Victorian Gothic 🕸️ Cursed Artifact

The Silence Factory 88%

Seeking silence for his grief, a widower finds a factory where spiders spin refuge and ruin.

by Bridget Collins 2024

3.42

4k+ ratings

🔗 Industrial Gothic 👻 Victorian Gothic 🕸️ Cursed Artifact

Arcane Entanglement

by Ava Marie Salinger • 2024

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

4.08

645

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers

Arcane Entanglement 88%

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

by Ava Marie Salinger 2024

4.08

645 ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers

The Darwin Affair

by Timothy Mason • 2019

A detective hunting a royal assassin uncovers a conspiracy bent on destroying Charles Darwin.

3.66

11k+

🕵️ Victorian Detective 📜 Historical Conspiracy 👮 Disgraced Detective

The Darwin Affair 88%

A detective hunting a royal assassin uncovers a conspiracy bent on destroying Charles Darwin.

by Timothy Mason 2019

3.66

11k+ ratings

🕵️ Victorian Detective 📜 Historical Conspiracy 👮 Disgraced Detective

Lord of the Mysteries Volume 1

by Ai Qianshui de Wuzei • 2021

A botched ritual, a gray fog, two strangers: suddenly a transmigrated clerk is everyone's god.

4.56

5k+

🦑 Lovecraftian Fantasy ⬆️ Progression Fantasy 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy

Lord of the Mysteries Volume 1 88%

A botched ritual, a gray fog, two strangers: suddenly a transmigrated clerk is everyone's god.

by Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2021

4.56

5k+ ratings

🦑 Lovecraftian Fantasy ⬆️ Progression Fantasy 🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy

Mortal Engines

by Philip Reeve • 2001

Cast from a predator city alongside the scarred girl whose assassination attempt got him exiled.

3.77

71k+

⚙️ Steampunk Adventure 🦸 Reluctant Hero 🗡️ Quest For Revenge

Mortal Engines 88%

Cast from a predator city alongside the scarred girl whose assassination attempt got him exiled.

by Philip Reeve 2001

3.77

71k+ ratings

⚙️ Steampunk Adventure 🦸 Reluctant Hero 🗡️ Quest For Revenge

The Fall of Babel

by Josiah Bancroft • 2021

Babel crumbles. Nebos is not a paradise. It is an ark, waiting to sail the stars.

4.00

9k+

🖋️ Literary Fantasy 🗼 Tower World 🫂 Found Family

The Fall of Babel 88%

Babel crumbles. Nebos is not a paradise. It is an ark, waiting to sail the stars.

by Josiah Bancroft 2021

4.00

9k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Fantasy 🗼 Tower World 🫂 Found Family

La Mémoire de Babel

by Christelle Dabos • 2017

On a floating city where the past is forbidden, a memory-reader hunts for her vanished love.

4.19

71k+

📚 Steampunk Fantasy 🏛️ Magical Academia 💕 Slow Burn Romance

La Mémoire de Babel 88%

On a floating city where the past is forbidden, a memory-reader hunts for her vanished love.

by Christelle Dabos 2017

4.19

71k+ ratings

📚 Steampunk Fantasy 🏛️ Magical Academia 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Arm of the Sphinx

by Josiah Bancroft • 2014

A captain turned pirate scours a tower for his lost wife while addiction summons her ghost.

4.31

18k+

🏴‍☠️ Airship Pirates 💛 Found Family 👑 Reluctant Leader

Arm of the Sphinx 88%

A captain turned pirate scours a tower for his lost wife while addiction summons her ghost.

by Josiah Bancroft 2014

4.31

18k+ ratings

🏴‍☠️ Airship Pirates 💛 Found Family 👑 Reluctant Leader

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro

by Arthur Conan Doyle • 2005

Pearls, a locked room murder, and lost treasure pull Holmes and Watson into a foggy hunt.

4.13

11k+

🕵️ Victorian Mystery 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 💰 Treasure Hunt

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro Summary

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro 88%

Pearls, a locked room murder, and lost treasure pull Holmes and Watson into a foggy hunt.

by Arthur Conan Doyle 2005

4.13

11k+ ratings

🕵️ Victorian Mystery 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 💰 Treasure Hunt

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle • 1892

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

4.30

329k+

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 88%

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1892

4.30

329k+ ratings

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London

Spectyr

by Philippa Ballantine • 2011

Two Deacons race to save the man they love from a goddess who weaponizes faith.

3.88

2k+

🔥 Gaslamp Fantasy 🖤 Psychic Bond 👹 Gods Are Monsters

Spectyr 88%

Two Deacons race to save the man they love from a goddess who weaponizes faith.

by Philippa Ballantine 2011

3.88

2k+ ratings

🔥 Gaslamp Fantasy 🖤 Psychic Bond 👹 Gods Are Monsters

The Matchmaker Wore Mars Yellow

by Shelley Adina • 2019

Two sisters hunt their missing father in a lawless mining town until their landlady is murdered.

4.29

199

⚙️ Steampunk Western 🔍 Amateur Detective 🏠 Found Family

The Matchmaker Wore Mars Yellow 88%

Two sisters hunt their missing father in a lawless mining town until their landlady is murdered.

by Shelley Adina 2019

4.29

199 ratings

⚙️ Steampunk Western 🔍 Amateur Detective 🏠 Found Family

Heart of Gold

by Michael Pryor • 2007

A magician with a fractured soul hunts a stolen relic as a city's people become soulless beasts.

4.13

612

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy ✨ Soul Magic 🕵️ Political Intrigue

Heart of Gold 88%

A magician with a fractured soul hunts a stolen relic as a city's people become soulless beasts.

by Michael Pryor 2007

4.13

612 ratings

🎩 Steampunk Fantasy ✨ Soul Magic 🕵️ Political Intrigue

Soulless

by Gail Carriger • 2009

A soulless spinster's parasol kills a vampire. The werewolf on the case is smitten.

3.90

114k+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🗣️ Witty Banter

Soulless 88%

A soulless spinster's parasol kills a vampire. The werewolf on the case is smitten.

by Gail Carriger 2009

3.90

114k+ ratings

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🗣️ Witty Banter

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

by Andrew Lycett • 2007

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

3.91

299

📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes 88%

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

by Andrew Lycett 2007

3.91

299 ratings

📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction

The Lost Metal

by Brandon Sanderson • 2022

A lawman-senator and his deputy must disarm a divine bomb before it annihilates their city.

4.48

123k+

🤠 Fantasy Western 👥 Found Family 🔥 Redemption Arc

The Lost Metal 88%

A lawman-senator and his deputy must disarm a divine bomb before it annihilates their city.

by Brandon Sanderson 2022

4.48

123k+ ratings

🤠 Fantasy Western 👥 Found Family 🔥 Redemption Arc

A Master of Djinn

by P. Djèlí Clark • 2021

A Cairo investigator must unmask the djinn-fire killer claiming to be the city's mythic liberator.

3.99

37k+

🕰️ Alternate History 🔍 Magical Investigation 🧞 Djinn Mythology

A Master of Djinn 88%

A Cairo investigator must unmask the djinn-fire killer claiming to be the city's mythic liberator.

by P. Djèlí Clark 2021

3.99

37k+ ratings

🕰️ Alternate History 🔍 Magical Investigation 🧞 Djinn Mythology

Moment of Truth

by Michael Pryor • 2010

When war breaks out, a young mage spy must destroy a golem factory behind enemy lines.

4.21

377

📜 Alternate World War 🧪 Hard Magic System 🕵️ Magical Spycraft

Moment of Truth 88%

When war breaks out, a young mage spy must destroy a golem factory behind enemy lines.

by Michael Pryor 2010

4.21

377 ratings

📜 Alternate World War 🧪 Hard Magic System 🕵️ Magical Spycraft

Ordinary Monsters

by J.M. Miro • 2022

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

3.77

23k+

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution

Ordinary Monsters 88%

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

by J.M. Miro 2022

3.77

23k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution

The Anubis Gates

by Tim Powers • 1983

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

3.90

18k+

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld

The Anubis Gates 88%

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

by Tim Powers 1983

3.90

18k+ ratings

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld

Olivia Twist

by Lorie Langdon • 2018

She survived as Oliver Twist. Now a society lady, the thief who knew her secret is back.

3.88

4k+

🌀 Gender-Swapped Retelling 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Secret Identity

Olivia Twist 88%

She survived as Oliver Twist. Now a society lady, the thief who knew her secret is back.

by Lorie Langdon 2018

3.88

4k+ ratings

🌀 Gender-Swapped Retelling 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Secret Identity

The Infernal Devices

by Cassandra Clare • 2012

An American girl in Victorian London is kidnapped and forced to shapeshift to rescue her brother.

4.22

16k+

🕰️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Love Triangle 🔮 Hidden Powers

The Infernal Devices 88%

An American girl in Victorian London is kidnapped and forced to shapeshift to rescue her brother.

by Cassandra Clare 2012

4.22

16k+ ratings

🕰️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Love Triangle 🔮 Hidden Powers

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