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459 books in our directory

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The Trouble with Peace

Joe Abercrombie

Peace is its own kind of war in Abercrombie's gripping sequel, as revolution simmers beneath the Union's brittle calm.

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The Twisted Throne

Danielle L. Jensen

Zarrah Anaphora is imprisoned on Devil's Island, a penal colony designed to ensure that no one leaves alive, and the man responsible for putting her t...

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

A lonely witch hired to tutor three magical children discovers the family she didn't know she needed. Warm, funny, romantic, and deeply invested ...

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The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

For Game of Thrones readers who want the sprawling world and the ensemble cast, but a magic system and world-building as inventive as the politics. Th...

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The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks

A street rat apprentices under the world's most feared assassin in Brent Weeks' grimdark coming-of-age masterpiece.

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The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

The empire has fallen — now the revolution must govern. Sanderson subverts every expectation of what a 'book two' should be....

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The Wheel of Osheim

Mark Lawrence

Jalan Kendeth races toward the Dead King's army and a Hell that is literally bleeding into the world. Lawrence's darkest and most ambitious volume for...

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The Wicked King

Holly Black

Jude has power now — and the cost of keeping it is far more dangerous than the cost of winning it. Black escalates every tension from Book 1 and ends ...

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The Winner's Crime

Marie Rutkoski

The Winner's Crime is the second volume of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Trilogy — and where The Winner's Curse was primarily a novel about a single d...

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The Winner's Curse

Marie Rutkoski

A general's daughter buys a slave at auction on impulse and discovers he is a leader of the conquered people her empire subjugated — and that she...

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The Winner's Kiss

Marie Rutkoski

The Winner's Kiss is the concluding volume of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Trilogy — the book that brings together the war, the occupation, the resis...

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The Winter of the Witch

Katherine Arden

The Winternight Trilogy reaches its breathtaking conclusion as Vasya confronts gods, spirits, and the cost of living between two worlds.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

Joe Abercrombie

The Great Change arrives—and it's more brutal than anyone imagined in this devastating finale to the Age of Madness trilogy.

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The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

Kvothe's story continues across the University, the Adem combat schools, and his most dangerous Chandrian encounter yet.

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The Witch's Heart

Genevieve Gornichec

A Norse mythology retelling told from the perspective of Angrboda, the witch exiled by Odin and loved by Loki.

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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Tamora Pierce

Alanna finds a second home among the desert Bazhir and trains their first female magic apprentices in this quieter Song of the Lioness entry.

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The Wonder Engine

T. Kingfisher

The misfit crew reaches their destination — and the truth behind the clockwork soldiers is stranger and darker than any of them imagined.

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The World We Make

N.K. Jemisin

New York's five avatars face a subtler, more insidious threat as the Enemy infiltrates the city's politics and fractures its community.

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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh

A young woman volunteers to marry the murderous Caliph of Khorasan — the man who killed her best friend — with a plan to end his reign of terror, but ...

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These Hollow Vows

Lexi Ryan

A mortal girl crosses into the fae world to rescue her sister and is immediately caught between two rival courts — and the princes who rule them each ...

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This Wicked Fate

Kalynn Bayron

Briseis must master her ancient blood-magic and confront her family's deadly legacy to stop the forces threatening her world.

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Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

An assassin competes in a deadly tournament to win her freedom from the salt mines — the origin of Sarah J. Maas's signature blend of court intrigue a...

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Throne of Jade

Naomi Novik

China demands Temeraire back—and Laurence must accompany him to a civilization that treats dragons as partners, not tools of war.

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Tigana

Guy Gavriel Kay

A kingdom's name erased by a sorcerer-conqueror. The survivors plot in secret to reclaim it in Kay's luminous literary epic fantasy.

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