Magicals Anonymous Books in Order

The Magicals Anonymous books take place in the same London as Matthew Swift, but they come at that world from a slightly different angle. Instead of following one hard-pressed sorcerer through city-wide magical crises, this series asks what life looks like for the people on the margins of all that power.

Sharon Li is the center of the story. When Stray Souls opens, she is not looking for adventure or status. She unexpectedly discovers that she is a shaman, and that revelation does not make her suddenly calm, grand, or all-knowing. It mostly means other people start expecting impossible things from her while London itself grows stranger by the hour.

Sharon is a very good protagonist if you like competence that arrives late and under protest.

In Stray Souls, London's soul has gone missing, the Gate is open, and dangerous things are loose in the city. Sharon has to work out what her new powers mean while also trying to help save a place she barely understands in magical terms. By The Glass God, she is running Magicals Anonymous, a support group for people with magical problems, and then gets dragged into an even bigger mess when Matthew Swift disappears and a trail of vanishings begins to spread.

The support-group idea is what gives this series its own personality. These books still have dark corners, eerie creatures, and high stakes, but they are also interested in recovery, community, awkward responsibility, and the simple fact that not everyone in a magical city wants to be a grand hero. Some people just want to get through the week, understand what is happening to them, and maybe help the next person do the same.

That shift makes the tone feel a little warmer and often a little funnier, even when the plot turns dangerous. Sharon is grounded, practical, and easy to root for. Around her, Webb builds a London where the weird is real but daily life keeps going. The books have plenty of imagination, but they also have sympathy for confused people trying their best in a world with very poor onboarding.

If Matthew Swift shows the city's raw magical muscle, Magicals Anonymous shows its bruised human side. Read Stray Souls first, then The Glass God. They work best in that order, and they offer a good entry point for readers who want urban fantasy with strong character chemistry and a slightly gentler, more communal heart.