Books Like Percy Jackson: Myth, Quests, and Found Family

Camp Half-Blood is dying, and the cure is buried in a sea that eats ships whole. Riordan sends Percy back out with the same wisecracking energy that made book one work, except the stakes now have teeth: a family secret about his half brother complicates every choice, and the found family Percy built at camp is what's on the line. If what hooked you about the Lightning Thief was watching an ordinary kid handed impossible odds refuse to flinch, this sequel doubles down without losing its jokes, tighter and faster.

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On the shelf

Pick 02

Among the Hunted

by Caytlyn Brooke

4.4/ 5Excellent

Kaitaini is a nymph warrior who has spent a century punishing herself for something she couldn't stop, and now she's decided to kill a god over it. This one trades Percy's humor for raw grief, but the thrill of a mortal hero facing the divine carries through.

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Pick 03

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

5.0/ 5Incredible

Fiction Fantasy Young Adult

A boy who's been told he's nothing his whole life gets pulled into a world that treats him like he matters before he's proven anything. That's the same trick Percy Jackson pulls, and Rowling's original builds toward a found family just as worth defending.

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Pick 04

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos)

by Samantha Shannon

4.7/ 5Outstanding

Shannon builds two civilizations around the same dragon, one guarding it as sacred, one worshipping it as a god, and lets that contradiction drive an epic. It's slower and bigger than Percy's world, but the charge of myth turning into present danger carries straight through.

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Pick 05

Six of Crows

by Leigh Bardugo

4.5/ 5Outstanding

Six teenage outcasts, one impossible heist, a city that runs on leverage and debt. Bardugo takes her time making you love this crew before she makes you fear for them, the same found-family patience that made Percy's camp feel real, just morally grayer.

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Pick 06

Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

4.5/ 5Outstanding

An assassin gets pulled from a salt mine and thrown into a competition to win back her freedom. Maas wants fast, romantic fantasy that never stops moving. If Percy's smart mouth and refusal to be cowed by power hooked you, Celaena has that same defiance.

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Pick 07

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

4.3/ 5Excellent

An ex-convict named Shadow takes a job with a con man who turns out to be a god, and finds himself in a hidden America where every belief anyone ever carried here is still fighting to survive. Neil Gaiman takes Percy Jackson's premise, gods walking among mortals, and ages it up into something sprawling, digressive, and considerably stranger.

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Pick 08

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, Book 2)

by J.K. Rowling

4.9/ 5Incredible

Fiction Fantasy Young Adult

Harry's second year turns darker fast: something is petrifying students, and a diary that writes back is quietly pulling the strings. Rowling keeps the school-year structure but raises the danger, the same escalation trick that kept Percy's sequels working without losing the fun.

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Pick 09

Shadow and Bone

by Leigh Bardugo

4.5/ 5Outstanding

A war-split kingdom, a sea of literal darkness, and an army mapmaker who turns out to be the one person who can push it back. Bardugo's debut has the ordinary-kid-turns-extraordinary setup Percy fans respond to, wrapped around a genuinely dangerous, magnetic villain.

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Pick 10

A Deadly Education

by Naomi Novik

4.4/ 5Excellent

Picture a magic school with no teachers and a death rate no normal institution would survive, narrated by a student who'd rather insult you than let you save her. Novik strips out the coziness and keeps it lethal, pushing Percy's real-danger appeal even further.

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