7 Books to Read After The All Souls Trilogy
The All Souls Trilogy works because Harkness is a historian and it shows — the world is built from the inside out, from actual archives and actual historical research. These 7 books take their settings equally seriously.
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Bella Swan moves to Forks and falls in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire who has been resisting his nature for decades.
The genre template. All Souls is the adult, intellectually ambitious version — the same forbidden vampire romance but with actual stakes beyond the romance, actual historical depth, and a protagonist who is remarkable in her own right.
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Leningrad, 1941. Tatiana Metanova meets Alexander, a Red Army soldier, and falls in love with the enemy — a man who could destroy her family.
The historical sweep of All Souls Trilogy matched to one of the great tragic romances in genre fiction. The wartime setting gives the stakes of the romance a genuine external weight.
Claire Randall is transported from 1945 to 1743 Scotland, where she falls in love with Jamie Fraser while trying to return to her own time.
The closest structural match: an intelligent professional woman, time displacement, a romance that spans centuries, and a world built from serious historical research. Gabaldon's series is the most direct comparison.
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Two young magicians are entered into a competition they didn't choose, staged inside a mysterious black-and-white circus that appears without warning. They fall in love while trying to defeat each other.
The atmospheric lushness and slow-burn romance of All Souls at its most concentrated. Morgenstern's world has the same quality of being built with loving detail.
A young boy discovers a mysterious novel in Barcelona's Cemetery of Forgotten Books. His search for the author draws him into a web of secrets from the Spanish Civil War.
For readers who loved the manuscript-hunting and archival research of All Souls — Zafón's novel is built around books as objects that carry history in them.
Brie makes a deal with the fae to save her sister — she'll steal three magical artefacts from the Unseelie Court.
The fae romance with similar forbidden dynamics to the creature-world of All Souls. Lighter, faster, and more explicitly romantic.
Two magicians attempt to revive English magic during the Napoleonic Wars — one through books and caution, one through instinct and dangerous alliance.
For readers who loved the academic-magical world of All Souls: real historical figures, an English country-house magic tradition, and a faerie world lurking at the edges of the respectable one.
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