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Indexing by Seanan McGuire

Fairy tales aren’t stories—they’re outbreaks, and someone has to keep them from consuming reality. Enter a field team of narrative specialists racing to stop wicked queens, glass slippers, and happily-ever-afters from turning lethal. Indexing is sharp, witty urban fantasy that flips folklore on its head and files it under "dangerous."

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In Indexing, did you enjoy ...

... the secret-agency casework of suppressing dangerous supernatural outbreaks in the modern world?

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

If you loved Henry’s ATI team racing to contain fairy-tale “incursions” — from Sleeping Beauty–style contagions to Red Riding Hood–flavored hunts — you’ll click with the Checquy’s boots-on-the-ground investigations in The Rook. Myfanwy Thomas wakes with no memory and a stack of letters explaining her role in a covert British agency that manages eerie manifestations, leading to field ops, betrayals inside the bureaucracy, and set pieces as tense and clever as Sloane’s barely-contained interventions.

... meta-plotting where stories literally intrude on reality—and someone has to police them?

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

You enjoyed how Indexing turns narrative pressure into a literal hazard, with Henry resisting her Snow White script while the ATI Management Bureau keeps tales from hijacking lives. In The Eyre Affair, literary detective Thursday Next dives into the pages of classic novels to stop a villain rewriting them from the inside. It’s the same gleeful, reality-bending play with canon and trope—only this time the book cops patrol Brontë instead of Grimm.

... urban-magic bureaucracy that treats folklore and fiction like hazardous materials?

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines

If the ATI’s incident reports and containment protocols for wayward narratives hooked you, Libriomancer delivers that same thrill with a different twist: Isaac Vainio belongs to a secret society that can literally reach into books and pull out objects. When an attack shatters their safeguards, he’s forced back into fieldwork—cue frantic chases, dangerous artifacts, and rule-bound magic that feels as procedural and perilous as Henry’s case files.

... snarky, quip-filled teamwork in the face of bizarre, episodic supernatural crises?

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

Miss Sloane’s razor-edged sarcasm and the team’s banter amid glass coffins and shoe curses? You’ll find that same irreverent energy in Heroine Complex. When Evie Tanaka becomes the assistant (and reluctant partner) to San Francisco’s resident superheroine, they battle demonic outbreaks—from cupcake monsters to nightclub mayhem—while juggling friendships, identity, and PR disasters with the kind of wit and warmth that made the ATI crew feel like chaotic coworkers-turned-family.

... a sardonic, bureaucratic ensemble tackling eldritch emergencies with paperwork and peril?

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

If you enjoyed the ATI Management Bureau’s tight-knit squad—Henry, Sloane, and the rest—coordinating ops and trading gallows humor while containing narrative flare-ups, The Atrocity Archives offers a kindred vibe. Bob Howard and his colleagues at the Laundry navigate office politics, risk assessments, and field missions against Lovecraftian threats, balancing camaraderie and competence the way the ATI team does in their fairy-tale firefights.

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