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Camelot has already fallen by the time the last hopeful knight arrives.
The Bright Sword
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Camelot has already fallen by the time the last hopeful knight arrives. In The Bright Sword, young Collum finds King Arthur dead and the Round Table reduced to its overlooked survivors, who must rebuild a broken realm as old gods stir and Morgan le Fay rises. This reimagining of Arthurian legend explores grief, faith, and flawed heroism in a Britain slipping from myth into reckoning.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Editors’ Choice • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy and “master storyteller” (New York Times) returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • Locus Award Finalist
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, VANITY FAIR, TIME, OPRAH DAILY, TOWN & COUNTRY, ELLE, VOX, PASTE, LIT HUB, POLYGON, KIRKUS REVIEWS
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. King Arthur died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left.
The survivors aren’t the heroes of legend like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke. They’re joined by Nimue, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill.
But it's up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods return, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again—but first they'll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely, brilliant King Arthur fell.
The first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium, The Bright Sword is steeped in tradition, complete with duels and quests, battles and tournaments, magic swords and Fisher Kings. It's also a story about imperfect men and women, full of strength and pain, trying to reforge a broken land in spite of being broken themselves.
“Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword stands out as the best fantasy of the year.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Grossman, who is best known for his The Magicians series, is at the top of his game with The Bright Sword.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A thrilling new take on Arthurian legend. . . . Marvelous.” —The Washington Post
“If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you’ll love Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, a fresh and engrossing take on the Matter of Britain featuring a colorful cast of Round Table knights who don’t often get as much story time as they deserve. The creator of The Magicians has woven another spell.” —George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones
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In 1981, Rebecca’s life is perfect—until a freak accident sends her to 1857.
The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper
Historical Fiction · Historical Fantasy · Western
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In 1981, Rebecca’s life is perfect—until a freak accident sends her to 1857. Injured and alone, she hides her true identity, using her modern veterinary skills to survive. As she crosses paths with Civil War heroes and historical icons, Rebecca searches desperately for a way home. But if return proves impossible, can she make peace with a future in the past?
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Rebecca’s life in 1981 is picture-perfect: a veterinary degree, a loving family, and her dream job. Then a freak riding accident changes everything, sending her not just off course—but over a century into the past.
Disoriented and injured, Rebecca wakes in 1857, in a town straight out of a childhood Western. With no way to explain her predicament, she hides her true origins, using her veterinary skills and modern values to navigate a world where women’s worth is questioned at every turn.
From the Civil War to encounters with Lincoln, Twain, and Clara Barton, Rebecca fights to survive and find her way home. But if she can’t return to her family, can she rebuild her life—and her heart—in a time not her own?
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Inheriting Blackwood Abbey thrusts Ivy Radcliffe into a world of secrets, curses, and a hauntingly magnificent library.
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
Historical Fantasy · Occult Horror
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Inheriting Blackwood Abbey thrusts Ivy Radcliffe into a world of secrets, curses, and a hauntingly magnificent library. Amid cryptic manuscripts and whispers of ghosts, Ivy uncovers a family mystery entwined with her own fate. As sinister forces close in, the library’s secrets might save her—or doom her to vanish like those before her.
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In post–World War I England, Ivy Radcliffe unexpectedly inherits Blackwood Abbey, a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. With no ties to London after losing her brother in the war, she ventures to her new home, only to find its servants distant and its halls filled with whispers of curses and ghosts.
The jewel of the abbey is a breathtaking library brimming with rare books and cryptic manuscripts. Drawn to its shelves despite warnings, Ivy begins to sense an uncanny presence lurking within. As local rumors swirl of tragic owners and dangerous secrets, Ivy uncovers a hidden manuscript tied to her family’s dark past.
Time is running out, and the library’s mysteries may hold the key to Ivy’s fate—or her undoing.
What will she uncover before it’s too late?
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Truth keeps shifting as a hunter follows the trail of a missing boy through a world shaped by violence, myth, and buried motives.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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Truth keeps shifting as a hunter follows the trail of a missing boy through a world shaped by violence, myth, and buried motives. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Tracker joins a secretive group whose search leads across ancient cities and dangerous wilderness, where every story comes with its own version of the truth. This dark fantasy is dense, brutal, and immersive, with a mythic scope and a fiercely unstable center.
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The New York Times Bestseller
Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post
"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?
Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.
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Prophecy draws closer with every mile as a ship carries a scarred young man toward a city preparing for a solar eclipse.
Black Sun
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Indigenous Fiction · People of Color
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Prophecy draws closer with every mile as a ship carries a scarred young man toward a city preparing for a solar eclipse. In Black Sun, converging destinies unsettle a world already strained by power, history, and belief. This epic fantasy blends celestial omens, political intrigue, and forbidden magic into a tense, immersive story with a steadily mounting sense of consequence.
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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun
In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.
Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.
Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created a “brilliant world that shows the full panoply of human grace and depravity” (Ken Liu, award-winning author of The Grace of Kings). This epic adventure explores the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in this “absolutely tremendous” (S.A. Chakraborty, nationally bestselling author of The City of Brass) and most original series debut of the decade.
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A city on the verge of rebellion grows even more dangerous when supernatural killings begin to tear through its streets.
Throne of the Crescent Moon
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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A city on the verge of rebellion grows even more dangerous when supernatural killings begin to tear through its streets. In Throne of the Crescent Moon, an aging ghul hunter and a small band of allies are pulled into a widening conflict of faith, power, and dark magic. This epic fantasy blends political unrest, mythic creatures, and fast-moving adventure in a vividly imagined secondary world.
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A finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy Awards, and the winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon is a fantasy adventure with all the magic of The Arabian Nights.
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. But these killings are only the earliest signs of a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn the great city of Dhamsawwaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.
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In 1930s America, pilot and jazz pianist Velma Frye’s life takes a dark turn when a cursed pocket watch sparks a magical brawl.
The Improvisers
Historical Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
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In 1930s America, pilot and jazz pianist Velma Frye’s life takes a dark turn when a cursed pocket watch sparks a magical brawl. As she unearths a sinister trail of enchanted artifacts, Velma must team up with a nosy journalist to stop an unfolding disaster—and save countless lives.
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A jazz pianist, a pilot, and a wielder of celestial magic—Velma Frye’s life is anything but ordinary.
In 1930s America, as the magical Prohibition wanes, Velma investigates arcane cases for a magic rights organization. But when a pocket watch ignites a magical brawl at one of her flight shows, she stumbles onto a dark mystery: the watch is part of a dangerous collection manipulating—and killing—people across the country.
As she unravels the clues, Velma suspects these artifacts are tied to something far worse than she imagined. Complicating matters is Dillon Harris, a persistent journalist with charm she doesn’t want to untangle.
With cursed objects wreaking havoc, Velma must rely on her magical improvisation to uncover the truth. But can she stop the disaster building around her before it’s too late?
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Newly crowned Empress Malini faces a deadly ultimatum: burn to seal her legacy or sacrifice another in her place.
The Lotus Empire
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fantasy
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Newly crowned Empress Malini faces a deadly ultimatum: burn to seal her legacy or sacrifice another in her place. Meanwhile, Priya, now imbued with ancient magic, must confront a spirit demanding her life. Once allies, Malini and Priya find themselves on opposing paths—until an ancient enemy forces them to unite or risk total destruction.
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A prophecy fulfilled. A deadly choice. Two women caught between love and destiny.
Newly crowned Empress Malini has claimed her throne, but the priesthood loyal to the fallen emperor demands a terrible price: she must burn to seal her legacy—or find someone willing to take her place on the pyre.
Meanwhile, Priya has emerged from the deathless waters with powerful magic, but a mysterious yaksa demands a sacrifice in exchange for protecting her homeland. The chosen offering? Priya herself.
Once bound by fate, Malini and Priya now stand on opposing sides. But as an ancient enemy threatens to destroy their kingdoms, they must come together once more—before everything they love is reduced to ash.
Will they defy fate to protect their world, or lose everything in the flames?
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Best for readers who like epic fantasy with warrior heroines, political danger, magic, battles, and high-stakes family dynasties.
The Shadow Isle
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Jael Furyck, a warrior born into a powerful dynasty, is captured and taken far from home while enemies move to destroy her family’s eight-hundred-year rule. As her husband Eadmund searches for her, a new threat emerges from the shadows, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like epic fantasy with warrior heroines, political danger, magic, battles, and high-stakes family dynasties.
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Jael Furyck must escape The Shadow Isle.
Born into the powerful Furyck dynasty, trained to kill as a child, she has never backed down from a fight. But when she is captured, stripped of her weapons, and taken far from Osterland, she must find new ways to overcome her enemies. They intend to destroy her family, ending eight hundred years of Furyck rule, and they will start with her.
Though they have underestimated just how far she will go to make her way back home...
Eadmund Skalleson must find his wife.
After years of heartbreak and ill luck, he finally found happiness with the stubborn, unstoppable force that is Jael Furyck. But now she is missing, and he desperately needs help finding her. They had been hunting a band of Siluran warriors, who were burning temples and destroying villages, and seeing that as his only clue, Eadmund goes looking for a dreamer.
But as Jael and Eadmund search for answers, seeking a path back to each other, a terrifying new threat emerges from the shadows, hungry for vengeance...
The Shadow Isle is the first book in the thrilling Fate of the Furycks epic fantasy series. Enter an immersive world of scheming kings, fearless warriors, and mysterious dreamers, where a long-held secret threatens to destroy, not just a powerful family, but every kingdom of gods and men.
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The city is under siege, outmatched and unprepared.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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The city is under siege, outmatched and unprepared. Orhan, a quick-witted engineer with a gift for deception, is the last hope. With no weapons and a ticking clock, he must outmaneuver an unstoppable enemy—or risk losing everything. Can this unlikely hero pull off a miracle before the walls fall?
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K. J. Parker's new novel is the remarkable tale of the siege of a walled city, and the even more remarkable man who had to defend it.
A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.
To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job.
Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.
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Abraham Lincoln’s legacy isn’t just about saving the Union—it’s about battling a secret horde of vampires threatening to consume the nation.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Fantasy · Horror · Historical Fantasy
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Abraham Lincoln’s legacy isn’t just about saving the Union—it’s about battling a secret horde of vampires threatening to consume the nation. From the woods of Indiana to the White House, follow Lincoln’s hidden quest for vengeance, where the fate of America hangs in the balance between history and horror.
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What if history’s greatest president was also its most fearsome vampire hunter?
Young Abraham Lincoln’s life shatters the night his mother dies from a mysterious illness. But it’s not disease that took her—it was vampires. Fueled by grief and rage, Lincoln vows to dedicate his life to mastering mind and body, preparing for a battle unlike any in history.
Armed with an ax and iron will, Lincoln embarks on a hidden war against the undead. His fight intensifies as he discovers vampires' hand in America’s greatest conflict—the Civil War.
If Lincoln fails, vampires will plunge the nation into eternal darkness. With the fate of the Union at risk, Lincoln’s quest for vengeance may be America’s last hope.
How much will he sacrifice to save his country from the shadows?
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Two sisters, bound by magic and tragedy, are torn apart by one’s desire for peace and the other’s thirst for revenge.
The Witches at the End of the World
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Two sisters, bound by magic and tragedy, are torn apart by one’s desire for peace and the other’s thirst for revenge. Kaija seeks a life of community, while Minna unleashes a curse that threatens everything. When fury ignites, the consequences are deadly—and someone is bound to burn.
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Rage burns hotter than any spell…
Kaija and Minna, two sisters bound by blood and magic, have always lived in the shadows of the birchwoods. Sweet-natured Kaija dreams of a life among others, leaving behind the isolation that comes with her powers. But Minna embraces her magic—and the fury that smolders within. They’ve never forgotten the day their village cast them out, their mother burned as a witch.
When Kaija leaves to find community, Minna is left in bitter solitude. Her rage spirals into a curse, one that sets off a chain of destruction aimed at the very life Kaija has fought to build. As dark forces close in, the sisters’ bond may shatter forever.
Will either escape the flames, or is someone destined to burn?
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