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63 past books matching Steampunk
A great pick for readers who enjoy witty steampunk fantasy, secret societies, supernatural intrigue, and unconventional heroines.
Curtsies & Conspiracies
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Steampunk
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In this bestselling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, Sophronia returns to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy, where young ladies are trained in the art of spying. When a school trip to London reveals a dangerous conspiracy threatening humans and supernaturals alike, Sophronia must use her espionage skills to uncover the plot while navigating the London Season. A great pick for readers who enjoy witty steampunk fantasy, secret societies, supernatural intrigue, and unconventional heroines.
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Does one need four fully grown foxgloves to decorate a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests? Find out in this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage!
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (won't Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners.
Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot—one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card.
In this bestselling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, class is back in session with more petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail's distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.
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A good pick for readers who enjoy witty YA steampunk adventures, unconventional heroines, and boarding schools with unusual lessons.
Etiquette & Espionage
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Steampunk
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Fourteen-year-old Sophronia prefers climbing trees and dismantling clocks to learning proper manners, so her mother sends her to Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy. But alongside lessons in etiquette and dress, the students learn diversion, espionage, and deadly skills. A good pick for readers who enjoy witty YA steampunk adventures, unconventional heroines, and boarding schools with unusual lessons.
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This steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor that Gail Carriger's legions of fans adore.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother had hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
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Forbidden magic has kept Raven alive, but exposure could turn her crown into a battlefield.
A Kingdom of Flame and Fury
Romantasy · Steampunk
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Forbidden magic has kept Raven alive, but exposure could turn her crown into a battlefield. In A Kingdom of Flame and Fury, a powerful queen fights to hide what she is while Zeke, the man sent to claim her, slips past every defense she has built. This is fantasy romance with royal danger, hidden power, betrayal, desire, and a throne balanced on secrets.
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A queen with forbidden magic.
A man sent to claim her.
A desire that could burn kingdoms.
Raven has ruled for fifteen years with one rule above all: never let anyone see what she truly is.
Because if they do, she won’t just lose her crown... she’ll start a war.
But secrets don’t stay buried.
When whispers of her power begin spreading across the realm, Raven’s carefully controlled world starts to crack.
And then he arrives.
Zeke is dangerous in every way—quiet, commanding, and far too skilled at unraveling her control. One touch turns into something reckless and addictive. And Raven, who has always chosen power over weakness, finds herself craving a man she knows nothing about.
What she doesn’t know?
He was sent for her.
To get close. To earn her trust. To deliver her to those who fear her.
But the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember his mission, and the easier it is to lose himself in her fire.
With kingdoms watching, enemies circling, and her power threatening to consume her, Raven must decide.
Will she protect her throne...
or risk everything for the one man who could destroy her?
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High Vaultage turns Victorian invention into a citywide tangle of impossible crimes, private detection, and absurd machinery.
High Vaultage
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Steampunk
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High Vaultage turns Victorian invention into a citywide tangle of impossible crimes, private detection, and absurd machinery. In Even Greater London, Archibald Fleet and Clara Entwhistle run a barely respected detective agency until a kidnapping case pulls them into a mystery linked to baffling bank robberies and the city’s strange infrastructure. This steampunk mystery blends cozy investigation, alternate history, and comic science fiction with a satirical edge.
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From the creators of the acclaimed audio drama podcast Victoriocity comes a cozy scifi mystery set in the chaotic metropolis of Even Greater London - unmissable for fans of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series and Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
EVEN GREATER LONDON, 1887: a vast, uninterrupted urban plane encompassing the entire lower half of England and, for complex reasons, only the upper third of the Isle of Wight... The immense Tower casts electricity across the sky itself, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city below; the notorious engineer-army swarms through its very veins, building, demolishing, and rebuilding whatever they see fit; and - at the heart of it all - sits the country's first ever private detective agency.
Archibald Fleet and Clara Entwhistle hoped things would pick up quickly for their new enterprise. No one is taking them seriously, but their break will come soon. Definitely... Probably.
Meanwhile, police are baffled by a series of impossible bank robberies, their resources wholly absorbed by the case. Which means that when a woman witnesses a kidnapping, Fleet-Entwhistle Private Investigations is the only place she can turn for help. Luckily they're more than happy to oblige.
But what's the motive behind the kidnap? As Clara and Fleet investigate, they find more than they could ever have imagined...
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In a world where clockwork servants obey every human command, the desire for freedom becomes its own kind of rebellion.
Mechanical
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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In a world where clockwork servants obey every human command, the desire for freedom becomes its own kind of rebellion. Mechanical follows Jax, a sentient machine who begins to resist the system that made him property, setting off a story of revolution, control, and conscience. This steampunk-leaning alternate history explores free will, oppression, and survival with an intimate, urgent edge.
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From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.
My name is Jax.
That is the name granted to me by my human masters.
I am a slave.
But I shall be free.
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A future built on peace begins to look monstrous when one man sees what its order actually costs.
The Warlord of the Air
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Steampunk
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A future built on peace begins to look monstrous when one man sees what its order actually costs. Thrown from 1902 into an alternate 1973 ruled by imperial airships and British power, Captain Oswald Bastable must confront a world that reflects his own beliefs back at him in disturbing ways. The Warlord of the Air blends steampunk, alternate history, and time travel with political tension and moral unease.
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Set in an unstable world where the British Empire rules over all, this genre-defying novel blends steampunk, alternative history, and time travel science fiction
It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire—a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopianism, not all of the Empire's citizens support the marvelous equilibrium.
Flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into this world of the future, Captain Oswald Bastable is forced to question his most cherished ideals, discovering to his horror that he has become a nomad of the time streams, eternally doomed to travel the wayward currents of a chaotic multiverse.
The first in the Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy, The Warlord of the Air sees Bastable fall in with the anarchists of this imperial society and set in train a course of events more devastating than he could ever have imagined.
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Mission: Improper pairs vampire tracker Caleb Byrnes with the fiery bounty hunter who once shattered his control.
Mission: Improper
Steampunk · Romantasy · Paranormal Romance
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Mission: Improper pairs vampire tracker Caleb Byrnes with the fiery bounty hunter who once shattered his control. Forced undercover amid London’s blue blood elite, enemies become allies as a conspiracy threatens a fragile peace. Desire wars with vengeance, and darkness must be unleashed to survive. A steampunk paranormal romance from bestselling author Bec McMaster, London.
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A thrilling twist on the enemies to lovers’ theme—a deliciously dark vampire romance with a unique steampunk infusion.
He promised her vengeance. She threatened to steal his heart instead….
Caleb Byrnes works best alone. The cold and brooding blue blood is the best tracker the Guild of Nighthawks has, and he rules the craving within him with an iron hand. Nobody escapes him. Nobody gets the better of him. And nobody has ever come close to unleashing the hunger within him.
Until now….
Ingrid Miller is the one who got away.
The one woman who makes him burn, and threatens all his hard-won control.
The passionate and fiery verwulfen bounty hunter once worked a case with him—and left him tied to his bed. Naked.
When they’re partnered together on a new case, Byrnes finally sees his chance to have his revenge. He will have her in his bed and he will ruin her with his kiss, and vengeance will be so, so sweet.
There’s just one little problem….
Vampires once ruled London—but after a bloodthirsty revolution left the human queen on the throne, the city has been negotiating a new peace. Rumors of a plot against the queen beckon, and Byrnes and Ingrid must go undercover among the blue blood elite in order to discover the truth.
And when their hunt uncovers a dangerous conspiracy, Byrnes must unleash the darkness within him if he’s to have any chance of protecting the woman his vampiric half wants to claim….
A unique, sexy paranormal romance, Bec McMaster's London Steampunk novels will appeal to fans of Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, and Kristen Callihan's Darkest London series.
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In Victorian London, magic earns a noose, and Dorothy St.
Town of Shadows
Steampunk · Romantasy
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In Victorian London, magic earns a noose, and Dorothy St. James can barely control hers. When her father is kidnapped by a madman turning victims insane, she teams with a charming illusionist who trades help for riddles. Secrets, danger, and attraction spiral through carnivals and train chases in this richly layered historical fantasy.
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“Town of Shadows kept me on my toes and up way too late. This engrossing historical fantasy brings a great twist on forbidden magic, has characters that are deliciously complicated, and a hard charging plot with plenty of twists. One of the best new series I’ve read in a very long time! Fans of Charlie N. Holmberg and Luanne G. Smith will want to hop on board this Victorian train.” — Jeff Wheeler, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Invisible College series
In Victorian London, magic earns you a noose.
Eighteen-year-old Dorothy St. James can’t control her magic. To avoid arrest, she locks herself at home and buries her nose in her experiments. But a kidnapper called the Rook is on the loose, and his victims keep turning up insane. When Dorothy’s father is taken, she must exchange her beakers for bravery and find the Rook’s trail—the problem is, only one person ever has: a mysterious masked hero.
Ashley Gardner unabashedly casts illusions, using his charm to flit between the upper ton and the magical underbelly below. When Dorothy accuses him of knowing the masked hero’s identity, he flatly denies it. Until the clever beauty intercepts a communique he desperately needs.
They strike a bargain: she’ll give him the message in exchange for three clues to point her in the right direction. But Ashley won’t make them easy. In fact, he’ll make them impossible, because he has his own dangerous reasons for keeping Dorothy away—and Ashley always gets what he wants.
Through dazzling ballets, wild carnivals, and death-defying train rides, Dorothy must use her wits and magic to solve Ashley’s riddles and unravel her budding feelings for the illusionist mastermind behind them. The masked hero isn’t who she believes, and the Rook is closer than she suspects. While the game was always rigged against her, returning her father—mind intact—might just cheat her out of a heart too.
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Cursed by a bargain made before she could choose, Wendy must marry before her twentieth birthday or belong to the Shadow Keeper.
Losing Wendy
Steampunk · Romantasy
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Cursed by a bargain made before she could choose, Wendy must marry before her twentieth birthday or belong to the Shadow Keeper. When a mating mark appears and a dangerous stranger crashes her masquerade, escape turns into temptation. A dark Peter Pan reimagining with fated mates, slow burn enemies to lovers romance, and fae intrigue.
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Sometimes the shadows whisper.
Sometimes I whisper back.
When Wendy's parents made a bargain with a Fate to save her from a deathly illness as a child, they thought the terms were simple: Marry her off before her twentieth birthday or else deliver her over to the Shadow Keeper.
But when a Mating Mark appears on Wendy's skin, finding a husband becomes a tad more complicated. After all, no one wants a wife mated to another man.
As Wendy's twentieth birthday approaches and she's yet to find a man who will take her, she and her parents throw a masquerade ball in a last ditch effort to free her from her curse.
But nothing is as it seems, and when a mysterious dark-haired captain with a Mating Mark and a vendetta against Wendy's family crashes the masquerade, Wendy quickly discovers that the fae Shadow Keeper she's been scheming to escape might just be her only hope.
Losing Wendy is a dark fantasy Peter Pan reimagining with fated mates, slow-burn enemies to lovers romance, winged fae, and a chilling mystery haunting Neverland.
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A single strange gift opens the door to a relationship shaped by mystery, quiet longing, and forces that never fully explain themselves.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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A single strange gift opens the door to a relationship shaped by mystery, quiet longing, and forces that never fully explain themselves. In The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton follows an impossible pocket watch to Keita Mori, a watchmaker whose hidden knowledge begins to unsettle everything around him. This historical fantasy with steampunk touches blends magic, intellect, and emotional restraint into an atmospheric, intricately layered story.
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For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting, bestselling novel that sweeps readers into a magical Victorian London inhabited by a clockwork octopus and a mysterious watchmaker who is not at all what he first appears.
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harmless, a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must be hiding something. When Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. Blending historical events with dazzling flights of fancy, it opens doors to a strange and magical past.
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Faith, vengeance, and buried truth collide when a warrior sworn to a fading god refuses to let an impossible attack go unanswered.
The Horns of Ruin
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Steampunk
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Faith, vengeance, and buried truth collide when a warrior sworn to a fading god refuses to let an impossible attack go unanswered. In The Horns of Ruin, Eva Forge hunts through a city shaped by divine power, rival factions, and machine-driven dead in search of her missing mentor and the truth behind a violent abduction. This steampunk fantasy blends relentless action, religious intrigue, and apocalyptic stakes with a dark, forceful atmosphere.
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“Hard to put down. From the compelling opening sentence to the last, The Horns of Ruin is much like its protagonist: powerful, relentless and impossible to ignore.”—Miami Herald
When humanity ascended, there were three gods. Three became two. Then two became one…
Eva Forge is the last of her kind—a Paladin of the dead god Morgan, whose might is slowly waning. Trained for a life of combat in the city of Ash, she remains ever wary of the scions of the other gods, who have their own beliefs and agendas. So when Eva accompanies her lifelong mentor to retrieve a strange young girl of a rival faith, she is both curious and suspicious. And above all, she is ready for a fight.
But nothing could have prepared her for an ambush by armored, machine-driven corpses. When the smoke clears both her mentor and the girl are gone—taken captive or worse. Though ordered to stand down and let the authorities handle the investigation, Eva cannot let such a disgrace go unpunished by the power of Morgan.
Soon, her initial desire for bloody vengeance becomes a quest for answers. Because the more Eva learns in her search for the truth, the less she realizes she truly knows about her city, her destiny, and the gods themselves. And what Eva uncovers will either transform the world or leave it in ruins…
Tim Akers, author of the acclaimed Burn Cycle series, introduces readers to a mystical world where men can become gods, and gods can become murderers…
“A complex steampunk world.”— Publishers Weekly
“A solidly created world, populated with magic, action and adventure…we haven’t come across such a refreshing take on multiple sci-fi and fantasy forms in a while.”—Sci Fi Now
“Establishes itself as a unique fantasy adventure in a world all it’ own…should be at the top of your list.”—Examiner.com
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Good for readers who want epic historical fantasy with steampunk elements, political danger, and magic tied to bloodlines.
Cold Magic
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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Cold Magic follows Cat and Bee, two young women caught between science, industry, family secrets, and the old magic that still rules their world, with a 3.7-star average from more than 9,300 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want epic historical fantasy with steampunk elements, political danger, and magic tied to bloodlines.
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From one of the genre's finest writers comes a bold new epic fantasy in which science and magic are locked in a deadly struggle.
It is the dawn of a new age. . . The Industrial Revolution has begun, factories are springing up across the country, and new technologies are transforming in the cities. But the old ways do not die easy.
Cat and Bee are part of this revolution. Young women at college, learning of the science that will shape their future and ignorant of the magics that rule their families. But all of that will change when the Cold Mages come for Cat. New dangers lurk around every corner and hidden threats menace her every move. If blood can't be trusted, who can you trust?
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