bonewitches:

yEAH

underappreciated books [another list here, so i’ll try not to repeat]

• the fixer by jennifer lynn barnes
• peter grant series by ben aaronovitch
  
• on the jellicoe road by melina marchetta
  
• saving francesca by melina marchetta
• the piper’s son by melina marchetta
• the lumatere chronicles by melina marchetta
• fearsome dreamer by laure eve
• the summer of chasing mermaids by sarah ockler
• the name of the star by maureen johnson
• timothy wilde mysteries by lyndsay faye
• everything i never told you by celeste ng
• the hundred thousand kingdoms by nk jemisin
• the demon’s lexicon by sarah rees brennan
• the turn of the story by sarah rees brennan
• i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson
• postcards from no man’s land by aidan chambers
• spiritwalker trilogy by kate elliott
• ash by malinda lo
• conquered earth by j barton mitchell
• the wrath and the dawn by renee ahdieh
• last night i sang to the monster by benjamin alire saenz
• more than this by patrick ness
• i am the messenger by markus zusak
• heist society by ally carter
• gallagher girls by ally carter
• shattered sea by joe abercrombie
  

also: general book recs, 100 alternative books to read before you die & some favourites

as for darker books: gallagher girls gets pretty dark from book 4 onwards, burn for burn, friday brown, the name of the star, the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender (tw for rape), last night i sang to the monster, half bad, an ember in the ashes (tw for rape attempts/mentions, it’s p heavy in that respect), hemlock grove (so so fucked up, tw for rape/rape mentions & probably a load of other stuff too!)