Fantasy
From sweeping epics to modern fairytales, and from vivid historical fantasy to fresh contemporary magic, here is a vast variety of recent fantastic fiction to try. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise noted. (Created August 2024)
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The Spellshop
A lush cottagecore tale is full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams and even sweeter love.
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Faebound
Forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their homeland’s borders an elven warrior and her prophet sister encounter the fae court, in the first book of a new trilogy from the Sunday Times best-selling author of the The Final Strife.
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In the Hour of Crows
When called upon, young Weatherly Wilder can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her backwater ways when they don’t. Weatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift: she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered. But when Weatherly, for the first time, is unable to talk the death out of the mayor’s son, the whole town suspects she is out for revenge.
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The Book of Thorns
In a sweeping work of historical fiction set against the rich backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, two sisters who never knew the other existed meet on opposite sides of the battlefield and must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother's death--while surviving the war raging around them.
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The Bright Sword
Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum, instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance.
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An Academy for Liars
A young woman with a gift for persuasion, Lennon Carter, is invited to take an entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret part of Savannah, where she learns how to master her strange power.
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Blackheart Man
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace
A queer, Asian reimagining of an epic love story blending historical figures with Chinese folklore.
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Godkiller
Enter a land of gods and monsters, soldiers and mercenaries, secrets and wishes—the explosive #1 internationally bestselling fantasy debut in a new trilogy for fans of The Witcher and Gideon the Ninth.
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
Raised by an evil sorceress, Cordelia must choose between her controlling mother and the kindness of a stranger to save innocent lives in a dark retelling of The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm.
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