Finished City of Lost Souls? Meet your next match.
You're not looking for just any book. You want that exact dark feeling again. We compatibility-checked 12 books and found your matches.
The City of Lost Souls book hangover is real, and scrolling through "readers also enjoyed" lists isn't going to cut it. We read City of Lost Souls, tagged every mood and trope that made it click, and hunted down books that match on the things you actually cared about — not just "it's also YA Fantasy." Dark energy? Check. Possession? Check. That can't-stop-reading pacing? We've got you.
12 Books Matched to City of Lost Souls
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Smoke in the Sun by Renée Ahdieh — ❄️ 0/5 spice, 401 pages
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Based on mood, trope, and pacing analysis, the most similar books to City of Lost Souls include Smoke in the Sun, For the Throne, The Fates Divide. Each matches on specific elements like dark and epic that made City of Lost Souls resonate with readers.
We recommend starting with Smoke in the Sun by Renée Ahdieh — it shares City of Lost Souls's core Dark energy while bringing something fresh to the table.
City of Lost Souls is a standalone novel. You can jump right in without reading anything else first.
City of Lost Souls has a spice level of 1/5. The recommendations on this page range across spice levels — each one is labeled so you can find your comfort zone.
City of Lost Souls is already a low-spice read (1/5). Most similar books on this page have comparable heat levels.
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