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Six of Crows (2015)
9.1/10on Open Library
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Kaz Brekker's impossible job needs people who can do things he cannot: a spy, a sharpshooter, a Heartrender and other specialists with reasons to distrust him. The pleasure lies in watching a dangerous plan depend on those particular people, while their histories alter what each is prepared to risk. This is a young-adult heist with substantial violence and trauma. Begin here, then read Crooked Kingdom for the crew's next struggle.
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The Palace Job (Rogues of the Republic) (2012)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Loch wants an elven manuscript back from the powerful man who took it, and a floating fortress demands more than one talented burglar. Her recruits include an illusionist, a unicorn, a death priestess and a talking warhammer. Weekes makes the extravagance part of the teamwork: each unlikely presence changes what a plan can attempt. Choose it for a comic caper whose group is as much an attraction as the vault, and the start of Rogues of the Republic.
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The Monsters We Defy (2022)
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Clara Johnson must steal a ring to satisfy a powerful spirit, assembling helpers with gifts that carry their own debts. The 1925 Washington, DC setting gives the crew a community beyond the job: performers, work, memory and Black social life all matter. Choose it when you want the people supporting a plan to have lives worth returning to. It is a standalone with spirit bargains, racism and a threat extending well beyond a wealthy target's valuables.
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The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (2018)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Ardor calls himself a ruse artist, but stealing from a king requires forgers, disguisers and other people whose work must fit his showmanship. The scale of the schemes gives you plenty of moving parts to watch, with dragon-derived magic adding practical complications. Choose it for an expansive caper that grows into a much larger adventure. It opens the Kingdom of Grit trilogy and becomes darker than its boastful early energy might suggest.
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An Illusion of Thieves (2019)
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Romy, her thieving brother, a swordmaster and a silversmith must use forbidden abilities to prevent a political disaster. Their differences of experience make assembling the team an important part of the book, rather than a quick prelude to the break-in. The risk of being exposed as sorcerers gives cooperation a cost beyond losing the prize. A good choice for patient recruitment and a meticulously prepared operation; it begins the Chimera series.
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The Drowned Woods (2022)
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Mer's water magic makes her essential to a job against the prince who exploited it, but she needs companions whose motives are less easy to measure. A cursed man, a thief and an unusually useful corgi give the party character as well as capability. Read for a compact heist shaped by Welsh legend and the question of who can be trusted with power. Its young-adult fairy-tale manner carries a history of mass death and coercion.
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California bones (2014)
6.4/10on Open Library
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Daniel is asked to recover his father's sword from a ruler's storehouse, recruiting old criminal friends with talents in illusion, survival and other useful arts. Their familiarity gives the operation an emotional history, while a newcomer brings a less settled element. The Los Angeles setting runs on magic gained from consuming extraordinary bones, so the prize is painfully personal. Choose this series opener for close teamwork in a brutally material magical world, including cannibalism.
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Foundryside (2018)
8.7/10on Open Library
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Sancia's theft of a powerful object pulls her into a struggle over the industrial magic that controls her city. The emerging group has to combine unusual perception with an understanding of systems, access and how enchanted objects can be persuaded. It is a strong choice if finding a loophole is your favourite part of a job. The first Founders novel opens into broader conflict, with slavery and exploitation making its cleverness more than a game.
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The Gilded Wolves (2019)
9.3/10on Open Library
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In an enchanted 1889 Paris, Séverin recruits experts to obtain an artefact that may restore his inheritance. Engineering, history and other kinds of knowledge make the group useful in different ways, while their attachments complicate the bargain. Choose it for puzzles and a richly decorated setting with the team close to the centre. This young-adult trilogy opener also asks whose past is preserved, displayed or stolen; romance and historical wounds run alongside the caper.
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Spellhacker (2020)
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Diz and her three best friends siphon a tightly controlled magical resource until their last planned job reveals something far more dangerous. England starts with an existing friendship group, so the question is how they will handle change as well as whether they can finish a theft. A lively option for found-family affection, queer relationships and technology mixed with magic. This young-adult standalone expands into conspiracy, with pandemic losses and chronic illness part of its world.
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Until We Shatter (2024)
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Cemmy's precarious place between two hostile powers makes an offer to steal a relic difficult to refuse. The job takes her and her companions into a deadly shadow realm, where dangerous abilities and unreliable information are inseparable from survival. The pull of this crew is their willingness to risk themselves for one another, even as secrets and romance complicate the operation. Her mother's illness gives the hoped-for reward an immediate human purpose.
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Hell to Pay (2026)
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Elle's family specialises in stealing from the dead, but retrieving a soul from the Afterlife requires her to reunite a crew she has kept at a distance. That makes recruitment a test of damaged relationships, with grief and private motives threatening an already impossible job. This young-adult fantasy combines contemporary surroundings, cons and found family. Choose it for the tension between what a leader tells her team and what she hopes the mission can repair.
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The Feywild Job (2026)
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Con artist Saeldian must steal a gem with a team that includes Kell, the former partner they hurt years earlier. Their magical promise never to fall in love turns unresolved chemistry into a complication with practical consequences. Choose it if the relationship between two essential collaborators matters to you as much as access to the target. This Dungeons & Dragons fantasy romance puts a second chance at the centre of its high-society and Feywild manoeuvres.
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Among Thieves (2021)
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Ryia's chance of escaping a powerful pursuer takes her towards his stronghold with a group of thieves, smugglers and other people with agendas. Kuhn makes the crew's selfishness an active hazard, giving each alliance a reason to hold and a reason to break. Read for sharp edges and shifting loyalties rather than immediate found-family warmth. The first Tales of Thamorr novel is violent, with the interest in these damaged people growing through the job's pressure.
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The Spirit Thief (2010)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Eli Monpress decides that stealing a king will improve his reputation, assisted by a swordsman and a companion whose dangerous power lets her do things neither of the others can. His ability to talk with the spirits in ordinary objects gives negotiation an unexpected place in the operation. Pick this for a small, lively team and a thief whose ambition is entertainingly excessive. It begins the larger Legend of Eli Monpress adventure.
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The Thief (1996)
8.7/10on Open Library
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A royal scholar takes the imprisoned Gen on a journey to steal a legendary object, with a small party whose knowledge and authority are distributed very unevenly. This is an uneasy expedition of captors and captive, and their changing perceptions of one another are part of the intrigue. Choose it for watching, listening and carefully prepared misdirection. The young-adult series opener takes time on the journey before the theft; protect its surprises by going in with little more than that.
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentlemen Bastards #2) (2007)
8.2/10on Open Library
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Locke and Jean aim at the Sinspire, an exceptionally guarded gambling house, but the elaborate con becomes entangled with a much less familiar life at sea. The contrast tests what their partnership can survive when verbal ingenuity is no longer enough. Choose it for the friction between a meticulous plan and demands that keep pulling the pair elsewhere. Read The Lies of Locke Lamora first; this second Gentleman Bastard novel includes substantial nautical adventure and violence.
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Crooked Kingdom (2016)
8.8/10on Open Library
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After Six of Crows, Kaz's crew are weakened and short of allies, with their next moves taking place in the city they thought they understood. Bardugo gets fresh tension from talents and relationships already established, making elaborate deceptions feel like an effort to protect particular people. Choose it for the pay-off of following the whole group through a second operation. This completes the central duology and should be read after its first book, with severe violence and loss still possible.
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The Prophecy Con (2014)
8.7/10on Open Library
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Loch's crew return for a theft whose apparently absurd object may prevent a war: a volume of elven verse. Museums, libraries and a besieged train give their overlapping talents different problems to solve. The established relationships let the comedy and coordination start quickly, while the job's meaning keeps changing. Choose it when you want more time with the magical misfits from The Palace Job; this second adventure rewards reading that recruitment story first.
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The Ruin of Angels (2017)
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A heist into a desert haunted by dead gods draws Lei and her former partner into a possible fight for their occupied city's freedom. Her sister Kai, a priestess and investment banker, follows a business crisis into the same danger. The interesting teamwork has to cross intimate and political fractures: the score means different things to people trying to save one another and their home. This sixth Craft Sequence novel is dense; Full Fathom Five introduces Kai and gives a useful route towards it.
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