Books like The Gilded Wolves
What should you read after Roshani Chokshi’s novel? It depends on what you loved most about it.
- Roshani Chokshi
- 2019
- Historical fantasy
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Best overall matchSix of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
The obvious answer, and it earns the spot: a crew of specialists, an impossible building, and a leader who would far rather run a scheme than say what he feels.
- A crew with one specialist each
- A leader who pushes everyone away
- Longing nobody acts on
- Secondary world, not our Paris
Great matchA Darker Shade of Magic
V.E. Schwab
Schwab's four Londons scratch the same itch for a magic system built like a locked cabinet, plus coats, thieves, and a city running on dangerous objects.
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- Secret societies and inheritance
- A crew with one specialist each
- Two leads, not an ensemble
Best for the secret orderClockwork Angel
Same architecture: a hidden institution with rules and bloodlines, a found family sharing its house, and clockwork machinery doing the job Chokshi gives to Forging.
- Secret societies and inheritance
- A crew with one specialist each
- Ornate, image-heavy prose
- A love triangle takes over
Best for the puzzle boxCaraval
Stephanie Garber
For the puzzle-box pleasure: a game with rules that punish you for misreading them, staged in exactly the sort of ornate, over-decorated setting Chokshi loves.
- Puzzles solved on the page
- Ornate, image-heavy prose
- Longing nobody acts on
- No crew — two sisters
Best for the proseThe Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
If you underlined Chokshi's sentences rather than her twists, Morgenstern is the next step: less to solve, more to look at, fin-de-siècle glamour all the way through.
- Ornate, image-heavy prose
- Paris at the 1889 Exposition
- Longing nobody acts on
- Almost no plot momentum
Great matchSorcery of Thorns
Margaret Rogerson
Lighter on its feet, and built on the same fascination with libraries, dangerous objects, and institutions that would much rather you stopped asking questions.
- Secret societies and inheritance
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- Puzzles solved on the page
- A straightforward YA romance
Best for the anger about empireChildren of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
Where Chokshi keeps her argument about empire in the margins and the artefact labels, Adeyemi makes it the engine the entire book runs on.
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- A crew with one specialist each
- A leader who pushes everyone away
- No heist, no puzzles
Worth a look — with a warningAn Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
The empire here is not subtext, it is a boot. Similar pull of duty against wanting, but Tahir is far more willing to hurt her characters than Chokshi is.
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- Longing nobody acts on
- A leader who pushes everyone away
- Brutality and torture on-page
Great matchThe Bone Season
Samantha Shannon
A criminal syndicate, a hidden order running the country, and a heroine who is a valuable asset to both. Denser going, and you will need the glossary.
- Secret societies and inheritance
- A crew with one specialist each
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- Steep vocabulary learning curve
Great matchShadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo
The way into the Grishaverse, and useful groundwork for Six of Crows. Less intricate than Chokshi, but the world it opens is the one you actually want.
- Secret societies and inheritance
- A leader who pushes everyone away
- A crew with one specialist each
- Single narrator, no crew
Best for the longing nobody acts onThe Cruel Prince
Holly Black
Black writes unspoken wanting better than nearly anyone in the genre, so if the Séverin-and-Laila ache was your real reason for finishing, start here.
- Longing nobody acts on
- Secret societies and inheritance
- A leader who pushes everyone away
- Faerie, not historical Paris
Great matchDaughter of Smoke and Bone
Taylor's Prague is the nearest thing going to Chokshi's Paris: a real city with a trade in impossible objects, and prose that stops regularly to admire itself.
- Ornate, image-heavy prose
- Paris at the 1889 Exposition
- Empire and stolen artefacts
- Star-crossed romance takes over
Best for the partnershipTruthwitch
Susan Dennard
Dennard's two witches are a working partnership first and a plot engine second — closest thing here to the way the crew's loyalty matters more than the artefact.
- A crew with one specialist each
- Secret societies and inheritance
- Puzzles solved on the page
- Worldbuilding explained slowly
What should you read after The Gilded Wolves?
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi works on several levels at once, and which book you should read next depends on which of those levels got you. For most readers the closest match is Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo — the obvious answer, and it earns the spot: a crew of specialists, an impossible building, and a leader who would far rather run a scheme than say what he feels.
If what stayed with you was empire and stolen artefacts, read A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab instead: schwab's four Londons scratch the same itch for a magic system built like a locked cabinet, plus coats, thieves, and a city running on dangerous objects. Clockwork Angel by is the other strong option — same architecture: a hidden institution with rules and bloodlines, a found family sharing its house, and clockwork machinery doing the job Chokshi gives to Forging.
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