Fantasy 2022
Here are some of our favorite fantasy novels of 2022. From sweeping epics to modern fairytales, and from vivid historical fantasy to fresh contemporary magic, here is a vast variety of fantastic fiction by grandmasters and newcomers from all around the world. (Created February 2023).
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The World We Make
in the sequel to "The City We Became," Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek must struggle against an agenda of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" from a charismatic new mayoral candidate.
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
In a fantastical version of New Orleans, when nine songs of power escape from the magical piano that maintains the city's beat, a failed magician and his sister, must capture these ballads to save the city they love.
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The Spear Cuts Through Water
When an ancient god escapes her royal captivity and flees from her own terrifying triplets, she embarks on a five day pilgrimage in search of freedom, and to and end the Moon Throne forever.
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All the Seas of the World
Set in the near-Renaissance world of "A Brightness Long Ago," two assassins hired by the most dangerous men alive begin a mission that, if successful, will alter the destinies of empires and the lives of all people.
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Nettle & Bone
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch.
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Silver Queendom
Darin, the innkeeper of the notorious Red Rooster Inn, and her famed team of con artists set out to steal a shipment of imperial dreamwine, the most precious substance in the queendom.
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Woman, Eating
A young, mixed race vampire must find a way to balance her mixed heritage, her bottomless hunger, in this subversive twist on the vampire mythos.
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Dark Factory
Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void.
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Babel
A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver working where he must choose between competing loyalties.
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The Girl and the Moon
After "The Girl and the Stars" and "The Girl and the Mountain," this third pulse-poundingepic fantasy follows an outcast who will fight with everything she has to survive the harsh planet of Abeth.
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