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Genevieve Cogman

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Genevieve Cogman got started on Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes at an early age, and has never looked back. But on a perhaps more prosaic note, she has an MSC in Statistics with Medical Applications and has wielded this in an assortment of jobs: clinical coder, data analyst and classifications specialist. Although The Invisible Library is her debut novel, she has also previously worked as a freelance roleplaying game writer. Genevieve Cogman’s hobbies include patchwork, beading, knitting and gaming, and she lives in the north of England.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 184,801 ratings · 18,500 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 65,125 ratings — published 2014 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 28,062 ratings — published 2015 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 21,393 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Plot (The Invisible Library, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 17,301 ratings — published 2017 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library, #5) 4.20 avg rating — 14,024 ratings — published 2018 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library, #6) 4.17 avg rating — 11,216 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library, #7) 4.18 avg rating — 9,683 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8) 4.30 avg rating — 8,159 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 3,682 ratings — published 2023 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elusive (Scarlet Revolution, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 889 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Genevieve Cogman answered Mary Rorabaugh's question: What reading level would you say for the Invisible Library series? Well, there is some violence, but the sex is generally offstage or "fade to black", and I'd have thought that anyone 11 or up could read it comfortably, though older children/teens/people will get more out of it. (I should note that I was reading the See Full Answer
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“The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

tags: books, library

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“Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

tags: fae, humour, illegal-actions

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“and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out, and have nothing to worry about, except the next page of whatever she was reading.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

6 votes, 28.6%

The Martian by Andy Weir

6 votes, 28.6%

The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker

4 votes, 19.0%

Control Point by Myke Cole

3 votes, 14.3%

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride

2 votes, 9.5%

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

0 votes, 0.0%

The Innocent and the Condemned by Kay Harding

0 votes, 0.0%

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