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The alone thief. A team of misfits. An elaborate program. A treasure with worth beyond compare. These are just some of our absolute favorite tropes to be institute in heist books—and trust us when we say that there are plenty more than to exist enjoyed. Books with heists are a blast to read considering you know they are going to be filled with high stakes, clever characters, and a mission that will rival all other missions. They really demand an elevated plot and investment—and when they deliver, whoa.

So what practise you say, book nerds? Nosotros're challenging yous to pick up an awesome high-stakes heist book today. Whether that involves characters siphoning magic, returning a lost painting, or pulling off a mission that could salve the world, this list of heist books will exist sure to bring some fun and excitement to your TBRs!

24 Heist Books

THAT Will Go on YOUR Heart RACING

i. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything tin can be had for the right toll—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a mortiferous heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull information technology off solitary…

A captive with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who tin can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged by. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One incommunicable heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand betwixt the globe and destruction—if they don't kill each other get-go.

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2. Spellhacker by M.G. England

In Kyrkarta, magic—known every bit maz—was once a freely bachelor natural resources. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a article that's tightly controlled—and, of class, outrageously expensive.

Which is why Diz and her three best friends run a highly lucrative,highly illegal maz siphoning gig on the side. Their next task is supposed to be their last heist ever.

But when their programme turns upwards a powerful new strain of maz that (literally) blows up in their faces, they're driven to unravel a conspiracy at the very center of the spellplague—and possibly save the globe.

No pressure.

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3. Heist Society by Ally Carter

When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre… to case it. For her 7th altogether, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Republic of austria… to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business backside. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she'd expected.

Presently, Kat's friend and one-time co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a skilful reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to remember it. Just a main thief could have pulled this task, and Kat's begetter isn't but on the suspect list, he is the list. Defenseless betwixt Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat'south dad needs her assist.

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four. Every bit Red as Blood by Salla Simukka

Lumikki Andersson has made information technology a rule to stay out of things that do not involve her. She knows all also well that trouble comes to those who stick their nose where it doesn't belong. Simply Lumikki's rule is put to the test when she uncovers thousands of washed Euro notes hung to dry in her school's darkroom and three of her classmates with blood on their hands. Literally.

A web of lies and charade now has Lumikki on the run from those determined to get the coin back—no matter the cost. At the eye of the chaos: Polar Bear, the mythical drug lord who has managed to remain bearding despite his lavish parties and notorious reputation. If Lumikki hopes to get in out alive, she'll have to uncover the entire performance.

Even the cold Finnish winter can't hide a culprit determined to stain the streets red.

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5. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

No one believes in them. Just soon no i will forget them.

It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of manufacture and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged upward aboriginal secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on night truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his truthful inheritance.

To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a ring of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his abode. A dancer with a sinister by. And a brother in artillery if not claret.

Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the nighttime, glittering centre of Paris. What they observe might change the course of history–simply but if they tin can stay alive.

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6. Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn

When sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father, an upwardly-and-coming creative person in Seattle, she has no idea what she's walking into. Her father's newest clients, the Yamada family, are the victims of a high-profile art robbery: van Gogh sketches have been stolen from their home, and, until they can produce the corresponding painting, everyone's lives are in danger–including Violet's and her father's.

Violet'south search for the missing van Gogh takes her from the Seattle Fine art Museum, to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo, to a secluded inn in Kyoto. As the mystery thickens, Violet'south not sure whom she can trust. Only she knows one thing: she has to solve the mystery–before it'southward besides tardily.

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7. Jane, Unlimited past Kristin Cashore

Jane has lived a generally ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to plough life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is lost. So she's hands swept away when a glamorous, capricious, and wealthy acquaintance from years ago asks Jane to back-trail her to a gala at the improvident isle mansion called Tu Reviens.

Jane remembers her aunt telling her: "If anyone ever invites to yous to Tu Reviens, promise me that you lot'll get." What Jane doesn't know is that the house volition offering her v choices that could ultimately decide the form of her life.

One choice leads Jane into a heist mystery. Another takes her into a spy thriller. She finds herself in a gothic horror story, a space opera, and an extraordinary fantasy realm. She might autumn in love, she might lose her life, she might come up face-to-face with herself. Every pick comes with a price. But together, all the choices volition lead her to the truth.

Ane house. Five choices. Limitless possibilities.

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8. Heart of Iron past Ashley Poston

Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Establish as a child drifting through infinite with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space helm and the grizzled crew she now calls family unit. Merely D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.

Ana's drastic endeavour to salvage D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offering all the answers. But at the concluding moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn't care what he'll sacrifice to keep them.

When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and non everyone wants them captured live.

What they detect in a lost corner of the universe volition modify all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana's past returns, she must confront an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her expressionless or save the Metal male child she loves?

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ix. The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

Avery Due west'south newfound family tin can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can simply equally easily guild a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and unsafe cloak-and-dagger society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the central to an ancient prophecy. Some desire to use her as a pawn. Some want her expressionless.

To unravel the mystery putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the monuments of Paris to the back alleys of Istanbul with two boys who piece of work for the Circle—beautiful, volatile Stellan and mysterious, magnetic Jack. But as the clues betrayal a stunning conspiracy that might plunge the world into Earth War 3, she discovers that both boys are hiding secrets of their ain. Now she volition take to choose not but betwixt freedom and family–just between the male child who might aid her save the earth, and the one she's falling in love with.

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x. The Hush by Skye Melki-Wegner

Chester has been traveling from village to village, searching for his kidnapped father. One night while trivial to earn a few coins, he accidentally connects to the Song—the music that fuels every attribute of the world. It's illegal to interact with the Song—merely a licensed Songshaper may curve music to his volition—and when Chester is caught, he's sentenced to death.

But just before the axe is about to fall, someone in the oversupply—a member of the infamous Nightfall Gang—stages a daring rescue, whisking Chester into the Hush, a shadowy nightmare mirror-world where Music tin can exist deadly and Echoes can impale.

Susanna, captain of the Nightfall Gang has been watching Chester. She needs his special talent to pull off an elaborate plan. And she'll risk everything to succeed. Even Chester's life.

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11. Iv Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

Get in quick, exit quicker.

These are the words Keralie Corrington lives by as the preeminent dipper in the Agree, the fundamental area uniting the 4 quadrants of Quadara. She steals nether the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can't get in their ain quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Iv queens dominion together, one from each region:

Toria: the intellectual quarter that values didactics and ambition. Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment. Archia: the agronomical quarter that values simplicity and nature. Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community.

When Keralie intercepts a comm deejay coming from the Business firm of Concord, what seems like a standard job goes horribly wrong. Upon watching the comm disks, Keralie sees all four queens murdered in four cruel means. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – information that is bound to be valuable bartering textile with the palace – Keralie teams up with Varin Bollt, the Eonist messenger she stole from, to consummate Varin'due south original chore and encounter where it takes them.

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12. Death Prefers Blondes past Caleb Roehrig

Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. Past day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise, she's in all the headlines.

Simply then Margo's personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a task to finish all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she's ever counted on is put at risk. Backs against the wall, the resourceful thieves must draw on their special skills to survive. But can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them — for good?

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13. Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

In the city of Eldra, people are ruled past ancient prophecies. For centuries, the loftier quango has stayed in power by virtue of the prophecies of the elder seers. After the final infallible prophecy came to pass, growing unrest led to murders and an eventual rebellion that raged for more than than a decade.

In the present day, Cassa, the orphaned girl of rebels, is determined to fight back against the loftier council, which governs Eldra from behind the walls of the citadel. Her merely allies are no-nonsense Alys, easygoing Evander, and perpetually underestimated Newt. Cassa struggles to come to terms with the legacy of rebellion her dead parents accept left her, and the fear that she may be inadequate to shoulder the brunt. Merely by the time Cassa and her friends uncover the mystery of the last infallible prophecy, it may exist too late to save the metropolis—or themselves.

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14. The Last Sorcerer past Lisa Maxwell

Stop the Wizard. Steal the volume. Save the futurity.

In modern-twenty-four hour period New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who accept an affinity for magic—the Mageus—alive in the shadows, hiding who they are. Whatsoever Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy bulwark that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their ability—and often their lives.

Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Club that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she's in that location. And all of Esta's training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient volume containing the secrets of the Society—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy information technology and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.

But Old New York is a dangerous earth ruled past ruthless gangs and hole-and-corner societies, a earth where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is every bit it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the by.

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15. Urban center of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

In the shadows of Sangui City, at that place lives a daughter who doesn't exist. Later fleeing the Congo every bit refugees, Tina and her female parent arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and domicile. Her mother quickly constitute piece of work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city's nigh respected business organization leaders. Just Tina before long learns that the Greyhill fortune was fabricated from a life of corruption and crime. So when her mother is plant shot to death in Mr. Greyhill'due south personal study, she knows exactly who's behind information technology.

With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City's local gang. It's a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she's been waiting for. But every bit soon equally she steps inside the lavish home, she'southward overtaken by the pain of old wounds and the pull of past friendships, setting into movement a dangerous cascade of events that could, at any moment, cost Tina her life. Simply finally uncovering the incredible truth virtually who killed her female parent—and why—keeps her property on in this fast-paced nail-biting thriller.

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sixteen. White Cat by Holly Black

Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn't fit in at home or at school, so he's used to feeling like an outsider. He'southward likewise used to feeling guilty—he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.

Only when Cassel begins to accept strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila.

In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas—and a program to con the conmen.

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17. The Disasters by G.Grand. England

Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he'south kicked out of the aristocracy Ellis Station University in less than xx-four hours. But Nax's one-way trip dorsum to World is cut short when a terrorist grouping attacks the Academy.

Nax and three other washouts escape—barely—merely they're as well the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats.

On the run, Nax and his young man failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth. Because they may non be "Academy fabric," and they may not even go along, just they're the only ones left to step upwardly and fight.

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18. Catwoman: Soulstealer past Sarah J. Maas

When the Bat's away, the Cat volition play. It's fourth dimension to see how many lives this true cat really has.

Two years subsequently escaping Gotham Urban center's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Gotham City looks ripe for the taking.

Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to testify that as Batwing he has what it takes to assistance people. He targets a new thief on the prowl who has teamed upwards with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Together, they are wreaking havoc. This Catwoman is clever–she may be Batwing's undoing.

In this third DC Icons book, Selina is playing a desperate game of cat and mouse, forming unexpected friendships and entangling herself with Batwing past nighttime and her devilishly handsome neighbor Luke Fox by solar day. Only with a dangerous threat from the past on her tail, will she be able to pull off the heist that'south closest to her heart?

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19. Atomic number 26 Cast by Destiny Soria

In 1919, Ada Navarra—the intrepid daughter of immigrants—and Corinne Wells—a spunky, devil-may-care heiress—make an unlikely pair. Merely at the Bandage Iron nightclub in Boston, anything and everything is possible. At night, on stage together, the two best friends, whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art, weave magic under the employ of Johnny Dervish, the society's possessor and a notorious gangster. By day, Ada and Corinne use these aforementioned skills to con the urban center's elite in an endeavour to proceed the club afloat.

When a "chore" goes awry and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes they're on the precipice of danger. Only Corinne—her partner in crime—can break her out of Haversham Asylum. Simply in one case Ada is out, they face betrayal at every turn.

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20. Bandette: Presto! by Paul Tobin, Brendan Wright & Colleen Coover

She is ALLURING

She is MYSTERIOUS

She is BANDETTE!

The world's greatest thief is a costumed teen infiltrator past the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying her skills on either side of the law alongside her network of street urchins, Bandette is a thorn in the side of both Police Inspector Belgique and the criminal underworld. Only it's not all breaking hearts and purloining masterpieces when a rival thief makes a startling discovery. Can even Bandette laugh off a plot confronting her life?

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21. Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her futurity, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at chance. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through fourth dimension.

Etta wakes, dislocated and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a vehement sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering transport, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies–the very aforementioned one that orchestrated her jump back, and 1 Nicholas himself has ties to. Merely discovering she can time travel is nil compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in their web.

Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find information technology, they will return her to her own time. Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to calorie-free–threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home… forever.

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22. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill Yous by Marry Carter

Cammie Morgan is a educatee at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every schoolhouse taught avant-garde martial arts in PE and the latest in chemic warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in calculator form. The Gallagher University might claim to be a schoolhouse for geniuses only it'southward really a schoolhouse for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in xiv languages and capable of killing a human being in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary daughter. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his estimator, or rail him through boondocks with the skill of a existent "pavement artist"-but tin can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most unsafe mission-falling in love.

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23. Immoral Lawmaking by Lillian Clark

For Nari, aka Narioka Diane, aka hacker digital alter ego "d0l0s," it's college so a career at "one of the big ones," like Google or Apple. Keagan, her sugariness, sensitive fellow, is happy to follow her wherever she may lead. Reese is an ace/aro visual artist with plans to travel the globe. Santiago is off to Stanford on a diving scholarship, with very existent Olympic hopes. And Bellamy? Physics genius Bellamy is admitted to MIT—but the student loan she'd been counting on is denied when information technology turns out her estranged father—one Robert Foster—is loaded.

Nari isn't virtually to let her friend's dreams be squashed by a deadbeat billionaire, so she hatches a plan to steal just enough from Foster to allow Bellamy to achieve her goals.

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24. The Thief past Megan Whalen Turner

New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner'southward entrancing and honour-winning Queen'due south Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief.

Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, unsafe journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. R. Martin.

Eugenides, the queen's thief, can steal anything—or then he says. When his boasting lands him in prison and the king's magus invites him on a quest to steal a legendary object, he'southward in no position to refuse. The magus thinks he has the correct tool for the job, only Gen has plans of his ain.

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