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442 books in our directory

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The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

Essun searches for her daughter across a dying world while her child Nassun discovers her own terrifying power. Jemisin's second-person narration deep...

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The Oleander Sword

Tasha Suri

Priya and Malini face open war and fractured alliances as the Burning Kingdoms stakes — and the cost of their love — intensify.

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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

Three estranged sisters reunite in 1890s New Salem and rediscover women's lost magic alongside the suffrage movement.

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The Other Wind

Ursula K. Le Guin

A sorcerer plagued by dreams of the dead must journey to Roke — where the fate of the wall between the living and the dead hangs in the balance.

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The Path of Daggers

Robert Jordan

Rand pushes the Seanchan back from Altara as Egwene consolidates rebel power and Elayne reaches for the Lion Throne—without Mat.

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The Poppy War

R.F. Kuang

Game of Thrones readers who want the same unflinching honesty about what war actually does — to soldiers, to civilians, to the people who survive — wi...

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The Princess Bride

William Goldman

True love, high adventure, and the best use of metafiction in fantasy history. Goldman's novel is even richer than the film adaptation — funnier,...

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The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

A sweeping epic with four interwoven storylines, two women falling in love across impossible distances, and an ancient evil resurrecting into a world ...

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The Queen of Nothing

Holly Black

Jude Duarte returns to the fae world she was exiled from to reclaim what she built — and face the faerie king she can't stop loving. The explosiv...

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The Rage of Dragons

Evan Winter

The Rage of Dragons is the opening volume of Evan Winter's The Burning — an epic dark fantasy set in a secondary world inspired by pre-colonial Africa...

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The Realms of the Gods

Tamora Pierce

Pulled into the Divine Realms, Daine and Numair must fight their way home as Tortall's war reaches its crisis without them.

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The Republic of Thieves

Scott Lynch

Locke and Jean must rig a political election against a rival crew led by a figure from Locke's past.

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The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent

A human girl enters a deadly vampire tournament where survival means trusting the one competitor everyone fears most. Viscerally plotted with stunning...

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The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Not traditional fantasy but included here for Game of Thrones readers who loved the layered mysteries and the sense of a world with deep, dark history...

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The Shadow Rising

Robert Jordan

Rand travels to the Aiel Waste and uncovers the truth of their origins in what many consider the Wheel of Time's finest volume.

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The Shadows Between Us

Tricia Levenseller

She killed her last lover. The Shadow King knows she is dangerous. Enemies-to-lovers romantasy with a genuine villain heroine.

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The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Patrick Rothfuss

Auri moves through the Underthing for seven days, finding right places for things—a quiet, luminous, deeply strange Kingkiller Chronicle novella.

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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, an awkward prince, becomes the companion of Achilles and watches helplessly as the man he loves is consumed by his own legend. Miller'...

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The Song Rising

Samantha Shannon

Paige Mahoney leads a resistance movement against the Scion empire while facing threats from every direction. The Song Rising escalates the series into full-scale rebellion with relentless pacing.

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The Songbird and the Heart of Stone

Carissa Broadbent

A new couple, a different corner of the Nyaxia world — an assassin and the god she was sent to kill navigate an impossible attraction through a world ...

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The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

A grad student follows a mysterious book into the Starless Sea — a vast underground library-harbor at the heart of all stories.

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The Stolen Heir

Holly Black

A mortal girl raised in the fae world flees the Court of Teeth and teams up with a half-human prince on a mission that will reshape the faerie realm. ...

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The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

Mother and daughter race toward the same destination from different directions, each carrying the power to save or destroy the world. The trilogy's sh...

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The Sunlit Man

Brandon Sanderson

Nomad has been running across the Cosmere for years, jumping from world to world to stay ahead of something terrible — and when he lands on Canticle, ...

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