If you loved how Libby, Nico, Parisa, Callum, Tristan, and Reina each wielded specialized abilities—and agendas—inside the Alexandrian trials, you’ll click with the Ketterdam crew in Six of Crows. Kaz assembles sharpshooter Jesper, Heartrender Nina, and more for a high-stakes job where trust is currency and betrayal is strategy. The same volatile chemistry and razor-edged banter you enjoyed during the Society’s eliminations fuels this heist’s twists and double-crosses.

Miss the rotating perspectives inside the Society—seeing Parisa’s mind games, Callum’s manipulation, and the Libby–Nico rivalry from the inside? Jade City lets you live inside a whole family’s war. You’ll follow Lan, Hilo, and Shae of the No Peak clan as their jade-fueled abilities and political maneuvering collide with rival factions. Like watching the Alexandrians jockey for advantage, each chapter reframes who holds the blade in an escalating struggle.

If Parisa’s ruthless calculus or Callum’s chilling empathy made you root for people you shouldn’t, Vicious sharpens that knife. Two former college partners, Victor and Eli, unlock superhuman abilities through ethically vile experiments, then become nemeses waging a cerebral, brutal war. It’s the same thrill of watching brilliant minds justify the unjustifiable—like the Society’s willingness to sacrifice one of their own—only here the morality play is the whole point.

If the Alexandrian initiation year hooked you—the study, the scheming, the sense that every seminar could be a trap—A Deadly Education turns that dial to lethal. Inside the Scholomance, El must navigate predatory magic, cutthroat classmates, and collaborative grudges to make it out alive. The academic rivalry and wary partnerships will feel right at home after the Society’s tests and the shocking ‘one must fall’ stakes.

If you were captivated by how the Society’s library and experiments forced the Alexandrians—especially Tristan and Reina—to confront what knowledge should cost, Babel digs even deeper. At Oxford’s translation institute, silverworking turns language into power, and Robin and his cohort must decide whether to uphold an exploitative system or break it. Like the Alexandrians’ secretive research and devastating choices, every breakthrough here demands a moral reckoning.