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A strong match for epic fantasy readers who enjoy dragon magic, redemption arcs, and found family.
Fragment of Flame
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Former assassin Callen Nasinth has spent three years protecting a woman and child he was once hired to kill. When a dragon eggshell fragment awakens his hidden magic and the child is kidnapped, he must confront his former assassin order to rescue her, with a 4.47-star average from more than 800 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for epic fantasy readers who enjoy dragon magic, redemption arcs, and found family.
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From assassin to protector. From weapon to shield.
For three years, Callen Nasinth has hidden in a quiet village, forging tools by day and guarding a woman and child he was once hired to kill. Known once as Nightshade, elite assassin of the Black Veil, he’s buried that past deep.
But when a mysterious merchant arrives bearing a fragment of dragon eggshell, long-dormant powers stir—within the world, and within Callen. The fragment awakens a rare magic tied to the drift—an ancient sense allowing him to feel the world’s energy, and fracture it.
Then Nora is taken.
To save the girl who’s become like a daughter, Callen must reclaim the deadly skills he abandoned—and face the assassin order that made him what he is. Worse still, his former mentor has begun harnessing dragon fragments for weapons of war.
As Callen’s bond to the drift deepens, one truth becomes undeniable:
Somewhere, a dragon lives. And it’s calling to him.
FRAGMENT OF FLAME is the first book in Drift and Dragon, a gripping tale of redemption, hidden magic, and found family—perfect for fans of Brent Weeks, Robin Hobb, and Michael J. Sullivan.
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This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
The Swarm
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
Called “Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark” by Gabino Iglesias, this horror novel follows Detective Vicky Paterson and two private investigators as an off-cycle cicada emergence becomes a deadly invasion. A bizarre murder, a missing girl, and a shadowy cult intersect as survivors try to uncover the swarm’s purpose. This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
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From the bizarre and audacious imagination of horror author Andy Marino comes a harrowing tale of the insect that will herald the apocalypse …
"The literary equivalent of swallowing a wasp that's crawled inside your Coke can. Do yourself a favor and read this book." —Nick Cutter, author of The Troop
"Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark, this is Marino's best novel yet." —Gabino Iglesias, Bram Stoker award winning author of The Devil Takes You Home
It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it's just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.
Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance. But after the first wave of insects hit, they are forced to barricade themselves in a motel where they must work together with a group of strangers to outlast the invasion.
Soon the infestation is impossible to contain. Humanity rests on the knife's edge of extinction. And there is a terrible purpose behind the emergence —one that Vicky, Will, Alicia, and a small group of unlikely allies must unravel if they are to survive.
"Marino's work is unlike any other's in the genre—horrifying, complex, fascinating, and utterly unique." – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of the Wilderwood series
"Relentless, brutal, and brilliant. An apocalyptic tour de force." —Craig DiLouie, author of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
"Marino has taken the safety of sensations away from me. Every prickle along my arm, the slightest buzz anywhere near my ear—it's all fodder for nightmares now. Suggesting your skin will crawl after reading this unnerving novel doesn't come close. Your flesh will fly away." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
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This will appeal to readers who want near-future horror about artificial intelligence with dark humor.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Horror · Mystery
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Former professional gamer Julia Flang accepts a well-paid assignment from her estranged mother: escort a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. He has an AI mind implanted in his head, while a man without memories awakens inside a shifting, monstrous reality. This will appeal to readers who want near-future horror about artificial intelligence with dark humor.
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"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . . As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary."
—Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
"Creepy and unexpectedly humorous. . . . A master storyteller, Tremblay's b(l)ending of genres here truly is a perfect beach read."
—NPR
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A dark, atmospheric fit for readers who like Gothic fantasy, murder mysteries, supernatural romance, and dangerous alliances.
Belladonna
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance
Our take
Orphaned Signa moves in with the wealthy Hawthorne family and begins investigating a suspected poisoning after the spirit of their dead matriarch appears, leading her to seek help from a stable boy and Death himself, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 1,200 Amazon reviewers. A dark, atmospheric fit for readers who like Gothic fantasy, murder mysteries, supernatural romance, and dangerous alliances.
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1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE SERIES
The first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series brings to life a gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal, as a young woman confronts Death in this fantastical mystery full of ghosts, magic, and romance.
Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each one more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. Its patriarch mourns his late wife through wild parties, while his son grapples for control of the family’s waning reputation, and his daughter suffers from a mysterious illness. But when their mother’s restless spirit appears claiming she was poisoned, Signa realizes that the family she depends on could be in grave danger, and enlists the help of a surly stable boy to hunt down the killer.
However, Signa’s best chance of uncovering the murderer is an alliance with Death himself, a fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side. Though he’s made her life a living hell, Death shows Signa that their growing connection may be more powerful—and more irresistible—than she ever dared imagine.
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This will appeal to readers who want contemporary literary fiction with suspense, family conflict, dark humor, and a fractured modern America.
So Far Gone
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Reclusive former journalist Rhys Kinnick is forced out of his off-grid life when his daughter disappears and his grandchildren need rescuing from a dangerous militia, with a 3.9-star average from more than 32,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want contemporary literary fiction with suspense, family conflict, dark humor, and a fractured modern America.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD
"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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A strong match for readers who like epic fantasy built around unusual magic, political intrigue, mysteries, and dangerous secrets.
Dust and Light
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Disgraced pureblood sorcerer Lucian de Remeni-Masson is assigned to a coroner, where his magical portraiture reveals troubling truths in the souls of the dead and draws him into murder, mystery, and corruption, with a 4.1-star average from more than 1,100 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like epic fantasy built around unusual magic, political intrigue, mysteries, and dangerous secrets.
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A struggling sorcerer is caught in a web of murder, mystery, and corruption in this epic fantasy series opener set in the world of Flesh and Spirit.
Civil war robbed Lucian de Rememni-Masson of most of his family and his fortune. As a pureblood sorcerer, he has a remarkable gift for portraiture and currently supports his surviving sister through painting for the Registry. But a brief dalliance in his past has returned to haunt Lucian. It was only an hour of youthful folly, but in that time, Lucian spoke with an ordinary, a young woman not of his own kind, allowed her to see his face, and performed magic for her.
Now, the Registry has contracted Lucian out to a common coroner. Instead of painting living sorcerers, he must use his gift to help identify dead ordinaries hauled in from the streets. But having the power to capture the truth of dead men's souls brings forth troubling consequences for Lucian. Especially when the dead have secrets worth killing for . . .
"A tale of magic and politics, of intrigue and betrayal. Set in a rich world, told through the eyes of a compelling and sympathetic hero, her story twists and turns, building to a conclusion that satisfies while hinting at more adventures to come. I eagerly await the next Sanctuary novel." —D. B. Jackson, author of the Thieftaker Chronicles
"[A] captivating and satisfying fantasy epic, the first of a pair. . . . With an impressive command of language, sure-handed plotting, and perceptive characterizations, Berg traces the arc of Lucian's arduous quest to solve the murders of several illegitimate royals." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A powerful, involving fantasy." —Locus
"With a plethora of fascinating characters and intense drama, Dust and Light is outstanding." —RT Book Reviews(Top Pick)
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A good pick for readers who enjoy psychological thrillers built around old houses, buried crimes, marital strain, and unsettling small-town secrets.
The Girl Upstairs
Thriller · Suspense
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The Girl Upstairs follows former homicide detective Gwen McDaniel as she and her husband move to a fixer-upper in Cold Harbor, Maine, hoping for a fresh start. Strange sights and sounds lead Gwen to investigate the house, uncovering a missing girl, a disturbing message hidden beneath the attic carpet, and decades of secrets, with a 4.1-star average from more than 1,500 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who enjoy psychological thrillers built around old houses, buried crimes, marital strain, and unsettling small-town secrets.
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A chilling domestic thriller by New York Times bestselling author Jessica R. Patch, where a house in small-town Maine hides deep, dark secrets...
She bought this house to save her marriage. Unearthing its secrets might just claim her life.
Gwen McDaniel’s life is broken. But she knows the perfect place to fix it. Cold Harbor, Maine, an idyllic small town with views of Acadia National Park, is where she used to vacation with her parents as a child. Here, she and Steven can start over, renovating their cliff-side fixer-upper while patching up their marriage. Soon, everything will be better.
Except from the moment they arrive, Gwen sees and hears things, and it’s more than just the drafts and shadows that are part of any old house. Steven downplays her fears, warning her not to fixate on problems as she has in the past. But Gwen spent years as a homicide detective, and her instincts don’t lie. Something happened here. Proof comes when she rips up the attic’s carpet to discover a chilling message carved into the wood underneath.
As Gwen delves into the history of the house and the Cold Harbor community, she begins to piece the fragments together. And gradually, a terrifying picture emerges: A missing girl. A house of horrors. And a dark, decades-old nightmare that is more haunting than Gwen ever imagined…
"Jessica R. Patch weaves a dark, twisty tapestry that’s both unsettling and unexpectedly hopeful. Masterful." –New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan
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A strong match for readers drawn to epic romantasy with dragons, complex magic, dangerous alliances, and an enduring central romance.
The Ballad of Falling Dragons
Romantasy · Fairy Tale
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The Ballad of Falling Dragons continues Raeve and Kaan’s story as a devastating moonfall approaches, enemies pursue their own agendas, and truths buried in Raeve’s forgotten past threaten to change everything, with a 4.4-star average from more than 75,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to epic romantasy with dragons, complex magic, dangerous alliances, and an enduring central romance.
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An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!
The Ballad of Falling Dragons is the much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon When the Moon Hatched, featuring an immersive, vibrant world with mysterious creatures, a unique magic system, and a love that blazes through the ages.
“Moonbeam. A moonfall is coming.”
Raeve’s thirst for vengeance continues to burn, as does her love for Kaan Vaegor—a staunch beacon from a past she’s yet to face. With Rekk’s blood still fresh on her hands, she learns the world will face its most devastating moonfall yet, forcing her to pick a path:
Chase death.
Or life.
Desperate to save his kingdom from ruin, Kaan’s crown has never felt so heavy. His many larks to scattered friends and family remain unanswered, and time is running out.
As allies merge and enemies surge with bloodlusting agendas of their own, secrets brew hot enough to burn, but none so mighty as the truth nesting within the icy depths of Raeve’s long forgotten past.
Something … Other.
Something with the knowledge to change it all.
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This will appeal to readers who enjoy magical realism, bookish mysteries, and interconnected lives.
The Lost Bookshop
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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A Sunday Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, this novel follows Opaline, Martha, and Henry, whose lives are connected by a vanishing bookshop in Dublin. Its mysterious shelves lead them toward discoveries about their own stories. This will appeal to readers who enjoy magical realism, bookish mysteries, and interconnected lives.
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On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dual timelines, haunted houses, Japanese folklore, samurai history, and gory Gothic horror.
Japanese Gothic
Horror
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A USA TODAY bestseller, this horror novel follows Lee Turner in 2026 and Sen, a young samurai in 1877, as the two discover a door connecting their worlds through the same unsettling house. Their stories intertwine Japanese mythology, family secrets, violence, and supernatural horror. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dual timelines, haunted houses, Japanese folklore, samurai history, and gory Gothic horror.
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USA TODAY Bestseller
New York Times Most Anticipated Book for 2026
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Book Riot "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026"
From the critically acclaimed, USA TODAY bestselling, New York Times Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Hell to Pay, a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, following two people living centuries apart who discover a door between their worlds.
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.
October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.
Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
For readers who love:
- Grady Hendrix and Stephen King
- Japanese mythology
- Friendship and family themes
- Terrifying, gory stories
- Horror with heart
- A new take on the classic haunted house trope
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A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
Coyote Blue
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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Called “Downright laugh-out-loud, can't-put-the-book-down funny.” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, this novel follows insurance salesman Samuel Hunter, whose carefully invented life is disrupted by love and the arrival of the trickster god Coyote. A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
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From the master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.
As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone—until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love—in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid—and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.
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Readers who enjoy true stories about kindness, poverty, and friendships across different circumstances should find plenty to like here.
An Invisible Thread
Biographies & Memoirs
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “An incredible story” by Clayton Morris, this memoir recounts how advertising executive Laura Schroff’s lunch with Maurice, an eleven-year-old homeless boy in Manhattan, became a friendship lasting decades. Readers who enjoy true stories about kindness, poverty, and friendships across different circumstances should find plenty to like here.
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This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small act of kindness, this is a “ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that love is a stronger force than injustice and inequality” (Sybrina Fulton, mother of Travyon Martin and coauthor of Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin).
Stopping was never part of the plan...
She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Whatever made me notice him on that street corner so many years ago is clearly something that cannot be extinguished, no matter how relentless the forces aligned against it. Some may call it spirit. Some may call it heart. It drew me to him, as if we were bound by some invisible, unbreakable thread. And whatever it is, it binds us still.
Now with new material that brings the life-changing story up to date for its tenth anniversary, An Invisible Thread is “a book capable of restoring our faith in each other and in the very idea that maybe everything is going to be okay after all” (Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward).
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