Found Family Fantasy Books: 6 to Add to Your TBR

Okay, this is THE found family book — the one everyone means when they talk about the trope 😭 Six brilliant, broken outcasts pull off a heist that should be impossible, and somewhere between the schemes and the betrayals they become a family that will absolutely wreck you. Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina, Matthias, Wylan… I'd genuinely take a knife for every single one of them. If you read ONE book off this list, make it this one — you'll finish it clutching your chest and instantly mourning that it's over.

This one feels like being wrapped in the softest blanket while someone gently tells you everything's going to be okay ☁️ A lonely, by-the-book caseworker is sent to assess six magical children on a tiny island… and quietly, without even realising it, finds the family he never knew he was missing. It's warm, it's funny, and it made me cry the happy kind of tears. If life has felt heavy lately, please read this one — it's pure serotonin in book form 💜

Imagine your favourite cosy little coffee shop, but make it fantasy 🥹 A retired orc warrior hangs up her sword to open a café, and one by one the regulars and misfits who wander in become her people. There's no world to save and no big bad — just warmth, fresh pastries and a found family that quietly sneaks up and settles into your heart. The ultimate low-stakes comfort read for when you need something soft and kind.

The Gentleman Bastards are a band of con-artist thieves who scheme, swindle and absolutely menace their way through a gorgeous canal city — and they'd die for each other without a second thought 😭 The banter had me grinning, the heists are genuinely genius, and then the brotherhood at the heart of it sneaks up and guts you the moment you let your guard down. Funny, clever and so much bigger-hearted than it lets on at first.

A street thief with nothing left to lose joins a crew of magic-wielding rebels plotting to bring down a literal god-emperor… and somewhere in all the scheming, they become a family 💜 The magic system is unreal (you WILL get obsessed), but it's the crew — their loyalty, their teasing, their belief in a girl who's never been allowed to trust anyone — that genuinely got me. Epic fantasy with the warmest heart hiding right in the middle of it.

For so many of us, this is the book that started it ALL 😭 A kid who never quite fit in anywhere finds out he's a demigod — and finally gets the friends and the sense of belonging he's been missing his whole life. It's funny, it's fast, it's full of heart, and honestly it hits just as hard whether you're 12 or 32. The ultimate comfort reread, with a found family you'll want to go on every single quest with.