✍️ Leigh Bardugo
5 titles · Fantasy, Romance, YA, Young Adult, Heist
Shadow and Bone
🌶️🌶️ · 358p
Alina discovers she has a rare power that could save her war-torn country. The Darkling wants to use her. He's magnetic, terrifying, and maybe the villain — or maybe the savior. Russian-inspired fantasy that launched the Grishaverse.
Six of Crows
🌶️ · 465p
Six outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz Brekker is the definition of 'soft for her only' — the entire world gets the monster, Inej gets the boy. If you love morally grey characters, this is everything.
Crooked Kingdom
🌶️ · 546p
The heist went wrong. Now Kaz and his crew must outplay the most powerful people in Ketterdam to save one of their own. The sequel that's better than the first. Every character thread pays off beautifully.
Ninth House
🌶️🌶️ · 458p
Yale's secret societies practice real magic. Alex Stern — a dropout with a dark past — is sent to monitor them. Then someone dies. Bardugo's adult debut is brutal, weird, and impossible to put down.
Hell Bent
🌶️🌶️ · 496p
Alex Stern is going to Hell. Literally. To rescue someone she lost. The second Alex Stern book goes deeper into the magic system and the consequences of what happened at Lethe. Bardugo's prose cuts like glass.