If you loved how Steve Matuchek and Ginny Graylock work real, rule-bound sorcery into world affairs—fighting diabolic plots that spill into wartime strategy—you’ll revel in how Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell rewrites the Napoleonic era. Watching Strange bolster Wellington’s campaigns with roads of night and coastal illusions, and seeing court politics twist around the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair, echoes the way Anderson wove spellcraft into geopolitics and military necessity.

Anderson’s meticulous runes, alchemy, and werewolf mechanics—plus the day-job feel of organized counter-sorcery—maps perfectly onto the Laundry, where Bob Howard uses computational demonology to keep eldritch horrors from crossing over. If the methodical way Steve’s transformations and Ginny’s workings are constrained by procedure grabbed you, the math-and-mandate spellcraft, field ops, and black-humored briefings in The Atrocity Archives will hit the same sweet spot.

If it delighted you to see Steve and Ginny juggle ordinary lives with wards, familiars, and sudden incursions of the uncanny, you’ll love War for the Oaks. Eddi McCandry’s Minneapolis becomes a front in a faerie war, with glamours interrupting rock gigs and a sardonic phouka as guide and protector—much like the way Anderson’s couple navigate commutes, romances, and bureaucratic headaches while the supernatural insists on turning the city into a theater of war.

If part of the charm was the abiding, rule-governed companionship of Steve and Ginny’s familiar—equal parts help and hazard—you’ll be fascinated by Sabriel’s relationship with Mogget, the inscrutable, razor-witted cat-spirit. As Sabriel crosses into the Old Kingdom with necromantic bells and Charter marks to rescue her father, that constant push-pull with a bound entity recalls Anderson’s mix of affection, danger, and strict magical constraints around familiars.

If the exorcisms, protective wards, and moral weight of invoking the holy in Anderson’s battles against infernal forces gripped you, Declare channels that intensity into Cold War spycraft. Andrew Hale’s missions entangle djinn, angels, and Kim Philby on Mount Ararat and in the deserts of the Middle East, where sacred invocations matter as much as tradecraft—mirroring the way Steve and Ginny’s righteousness and ritual stand against very real demons.