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Best for readers who like character-driven epic fantasy, reluctant companions, meddling gods, dragons, and long-form quests.
Silent Hall
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Five refugees from a plague-stricken island cross the continent searching for answers and instead become entangled with a wizard whose hidden fortress is beyond the gods’ sight. Their journey takes them through enemy territory, fairy realms, and a dangerous search for magic powerful enough to protect themselves and the wizard’s knowledge, with a 3.7-star average from more than 500 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like character-driven epic fantasy, reluctant companions, meddling gods, dragons, and long-form quests.
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Five bedraggled refugees and a sinister wizard awaken a dragon—and defy the gods
After their homeland is struck with a deadly plague, five refugees cross the continent searching for answers. Instead, they find Psander—a wizard whose fortress is invisible to the gods and who is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to keep the knowledge of the wizards safe.
With Psander as their patron, the refugees cross the mountains and brave the territory of their sworn enemies. They confront a hostile ocean and even traverse the world of the fairies in search of magic powerful enough to save themselves—and Psander’s library—from the wrath of the gods. All they need to do now is rescue an imprisoned dragon and unleash a primordial monster upon the world . . . And how hard could that be?
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This will appeal to readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on cloning, survival, individuality, and the future of humanity.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Dystopian
Our take
A Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel about an isolated post-apocalyptic community that turns to cloning as humanity faces sterility and collapse, with a 3.85-star average from more than 11,400 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want dystopian science fiction focused on cloning, survival, individuality, and the future of humanity.
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An Appalachian community attempts to survive after the apocalypse in this award-winning classic, "the best novel about cloning written to date" (Locus).
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and hard SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then.
"Kate Wilhelm's cautionary message comes through loud and clear." ―The New York Times
"One of the best treatments of cloning in SF." ―The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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A strong match for romantasy readers who like forced proximity, grumpy-sunshine dynamics, fae, survival adventures, and romance set against sea-bound danger.
The Stolen Crown
Romantasy
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After an otherworldly storm shipwrecks glamour-fae princess Mira Sekundär and ill-tempered Tait Heartwalker far from the Ever Kingdom, the two must work together to survive and find their way home as their feelings deepen and a forgotten threat rises from the sea. It has a 4.6-star average from more than 400 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for romantasy readers who like forced proximity, grumpy-sunshine dynamics, fae, survival adventures, and romance set against sea-bound danger.
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Love and duty are thrown to the treacherous deep sea in the next Ever Seas book from bestselling author and TikTok sensation LJ Andrews.
She is the life of the party. He is the villain you never wish to meet alone.
Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. He’s ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by the hard responsibilities of life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundär, princess of the glamour fae, he’s also intoxicating to look at.
Despite doing their best to avoid each other, fate has other plans when an otherworldly storm shipwrecks Tait and Mira far beyond the boundaries of the Ever Kingdom. They are forced to break through the thorny barriers between them and work together to find their way home. One wrong step and they’ll never return alive…
Yet as their feelings deepen, a new threat rises from the waters. And this enemy is so dangerous, even the history books tried to forget their existence.
The Stolen Crown can be read as a standalone set in the Ever Seas world.
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Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
Hear the Dead
Horror · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Retired punk photographer Elena Altieri is pulled back into her New York past when she begins hearing the final screams of murdered women, including her long-dead best friend. It has a 3.9-star average from more than 70 Goodreads ratings. Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
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"Full of twists and turns with just the right hint of the supernatural...a rollicking ride into the heyday of the New York City punk scene." — Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Stay Buried
From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget.
One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only she can hear the victims.
For more than forty years, Elena Altieri has been hiding from the tragedies of her New York City punk rock youth. Tragedies that left her best friend, Sin, dead, and other women in their orbit missing. Now, the past is catching up with her in more ways than one. Not only is she hearing strange noises under the hum of her tinnitus, but the photographs she took of a recently deceased musician are going viral, thrusting her back into a world she hoped would remain locked away forever.
When Elena begins to hear the screams of a woman ringing in her ears, she becomes convinced that she's somehow hearing Sin's murder. Desperate for answers, she has no choice but to revisit her past, and what she'll uncover will not only force her to reckon with her own fractured memories, but might prove that Sin, and other innocent women from their youth, were the victims of an unspeakable crime that only she can solve.
Old punks never die, and Elena's going to prove that.
Edgy, mysterious, and full of heart, Hear the Dead is at once an inventive and biting story following one aging woman desperate to solve crimes from her past, and a thought-provoking meditation on friendship, justice, and what it means to remember who we are.
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A good pick for established series readers who like LitRPG progression, large-scale magic, irreverent humor, politics, and escalating cosmic stakes.
He Who Fights with Monsters 13
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · LitRPG
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Jason Asano returns to Earth with immense cosmic power and must contend with fractured magical factions, renewed vampire conflict, family tensions, and threats that challenge even his growing abilities. It has a 4.5-star average from more than 50 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for established series readers who like LitRPG progression, large-scale magic, irreverent humor, politics, and escalating cosmic stakes.
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The last time Jason Asano returned to Earth, it didn't go great.
Isolated from his friends and forced to work with people who had betrayed him time and again, he had come perilously close to becoming worse than the monsters he fought. This time, no power on the Earth can stop him. Bursting with cosmic power and with friends and allies at his back, the only thing stopping him from conquering the world is the fact that he doesn't want to, but that may well change.
The Earth has problems, from fracturing magical factions to the aftermath of a monster cataclysm to a vampire war on the verge of resuming. If the Earth doesn't get its house in order, Jason might just have to take it over and do it for them.
Jason needs to deal with a world that variously fears, venerates and, worst of all, worships him. He needs to navigate politics, danger and some deeply confronting fanfic about himself, Humphrey and Clive. He has a son who feels neglected, a family still hurting from old rifts and a clan who see him as a near-mythical being. He's not a god, how many times does he have to say it...
While dealing with everything else, Jason must prepare for greater threats, looming on the horizon. There's a vampire queen who got the better of him in the past, and bizarre experiments that are getting loose and killing people. The vampires are ramping up for a final battle, and a hidden threat is determined to prove that Jason is not as invincible as he seems.
And if that wasn't bad enough, a threat that has been waiting for Jason longer than he realises will finally be revealed, presenting him with a conflict that is impossible to win. It's time to find out if the impossible really is kind of his thing.
Book 13 in the bestselling He Who Fights With Monsters Series is here.
About the series: Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.
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This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
Fitcher’s Bird
Horror · Gothic Horror · Occult Horror
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Three sisters survived the fire that destroyed their childhood home, but years later Chloe and Zoe disappear, leaving Dido to revisit their shared past and discover whether something else survived the blaze. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 50 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
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Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire… Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived… A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.
When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctor’s family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.
Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, it’s left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.
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Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
Other Worlds Than These
Horror · Thriller · Suspense
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Jack Sawyer returns for the final Talisman novel, facing infected teenagers and the forces of the mysterious Gullet as threats from America-side and Mid-World put multiple worlds at risk. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 20 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
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Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, the #1 New York Times bestselling collaboration between “master craftsmen” (The Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub.
“I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name.” —Stephen King
This is Stephen King and Peter Straub’s epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a magnificent stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King’s Constant Readers.
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible.
Magnificent, riveting, full of heart, and humor, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure, and features thirty-six exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez. The title instantly announces to readers who already know these other worlds that King has returned to them. Other Worlds Than These will appeal to new King readers and his Constant Readers.
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Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
Scorpion Deep
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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Jonathan Covey wants to escape the isolated isle of Kelcarrow, but a desperate ritual awakens Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god whose growing obsession with him turns increasingly dangerous. It has a 4.6-star average from more than 600 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for queer YA horror with body horror, isolation, obsession, and an unsettling supernatural connection.
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CG Drews, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.
The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.
In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.
To his shock and horror, the ritual works—Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.
But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.
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A strong match for fantasy readers who like unusual worlds, dangerous journeys, court intrigue, and determined young heroes.
The Fires of December
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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In a forgotten land sustained by rivers of demon blood, December learns a devastating plague is coming and sets out along the River Violet to warn the king’s court. This standalone Cosmere novel has a 4.4-star average from more than 300 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for fantasy readers who like unusual worlds, dangerous journeys, court intrigue, and determined young heroes.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a standalone Cosmere novel of demons and destiny. Illustrated by Tran Nguyen.
In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a child was born in the last cold hour of the last cold day of the last cold month. Let us call her December.
As an orphaned foundling, December grew up doing her best to fit into the roles society prepared for her. But after a transformative experience, she learns a cataclysmic plague is on the way, one that will curdle the blood rivers and ravage the kingdom.
But who will believe her, a poor woman from a small town on the riverbank? Against impossible odds, she sets sail up the River Violet to warn the king’s court, determined to stop a devastating destiny. Armed only with her wits and accompanied by her new friends—a chatty priestess and a fledgling fashion designer—December must navigate incredulous royal officials, twisted court intrigue, and a roguish count who might hold the key to her quest…and her heart.
In the cold days of her youth, society knew what to do with December. But now her eyes burn with wisdom beyond her years, and she will carve out whatever role she must to stave off disaster.
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Best for readers who like YA romantasy with enemies-to-lovers tension, political intrigue, murder mysteries, and magic.
Burn the Kingdom Down
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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After her sister dies under suspicious circumstances, Princess Indira agrees to marry the same enemy prince and enter his kingdom to uncover the truth and take revenge. As she learns more about Prince Alaric, Vanzador, and her sister's final days, she begins questioning what she has been told. Best for readers who like YA romantasy with enemies-to-lovers tension, political intrigue, murder mysteries, and magic.
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An instant New York Times bestseller!
An action-packed enemies-to-lovers romantasy filled with a romance that will leave you breathless, betrayals that will rip your heart out, and a princess who will stop at nothing for revenge.
One year ago, Rowenna Harrack, the crown princess of Tashir, left her homeland in a wedding dress of chains—sent away to the enemy nation of Vanzador as a captive bride.
Now, Rowenna is dead. Brought home in a coffin after an alleged fall from a cliff.
Second-born princess, Indira, knows her sister's death was no accident. Desperate for truth and vengeance, Indira agrees to wed the prince so she can infiltrate Vanzador, find Rowenna's murderer, and burn their kingdom to the ground.
Indira's plan is simple, she will make nice until she can find out how to avenge her sister and free her country from the rival nation's stranglehold. But when Indira arrives, nothing is as terrible as Rowenna described. As Indira grows closer to her new husband, Prince Alaric, and uncovers more about Vanzador, the source of its powers, and what happened during Rowenna's final days, she's no longer sure what—and who—to believe. Because everyone, even her sister, has secrets. Deadly ones.
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A New York Times bestseller, investigative journalist Charles Graeber examines the crimes of nurse Charles Cullen, his years moving through hospitals, and the detectives and fellow nurse who…
The Good Nurse
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A New York Times bestseller, investigative journalist Charles Graeber examines the crimes of nurse Charles Cullen, his years moving through hospitals, and the detectives and fellow nurse who helped bring his killing career to an end, with a 3.9-star average from more than 28,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to true crime readers interested in investigative reporting, medical settings, and the systems that allowed a killer to keep working.
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This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead.
“The best book(s) I read this year” (top ten books, EW) —Stephen King
Registered nurse Charlie Cullen was dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 400 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Now, in a riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, Charles Graeber gives us the unbelievable true story.
The Good Nurse weaves an urgent and terrifying tale of madness, humanity and heroism, utilizing previously unseen police records, wire-trap recordings, interviews, and jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself—all provided by the homicide detectives who worked around the clock, and the nurse who had to choose between protecting her colleague and stopping a potential serial killer.
For years Cullen continued to work and kill, shielded by a hospital system that, by accident or design, successfully protected the institution while failing to protect patients. The Good Nurse is a searing indictment of a crushing and dehumanizing for-profit medical system, and an inspiring human story of the previously unknown individuals who chose to risk their jobs and lives to do the right thing.
Mesmerizing and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at hospitals and the people who work in them in an entirely different way.
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of America BBC (Top Ten Books of the Year)
“The Best Journalism of the Year." —The Daily Beast
“The most terrifying book published this year. It is also one of the most thoughtful ... call it literary true crime ...” —Kirkus Reviews ("Best Books of the year")
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Best for readers who like dark satire about body image and social pressure.
Thinner Than Thou
Dystopian
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Called “Stinging and mordantly witty” by Publishers Weekly, this dystopian novel imagines a society where fitness has become a religion and the pursuit of physical perfection conceals forced feeding and starvation. Best for readers who like dark satire about body image and social pressure.
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TV says it. Magazines say it. American society commands it. You must be thin. You must be young. Fad diets. Fat-purging pills. Fitness clubs. Liposuction. Breast implants. Steroids.
In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the Crossed Triceps. And through hypnotically powerful evangelical infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where you will look like a Greek god and eat anything you want. Just sign over your life savings and come to Sylphania, the most luxurious weight-loss spa in the world, where the Reverend himself will personally supervise your attainment of physical perfection.
But the glory of youth and thinness that America worships conceals a hidden world where teens train for the competitive eating circuit, where fat porn and obese strippers feed people's dark desires, and where an underground railroad of rebellious religions remember when people worshipped God instead of the Afterfat.
As Annie, an anorexic, and her friend Kelly, who is so massive she can barely walk, find out, the tender promises of the Dedicated Sisters are fulfilled by forced feedings and enforced starvation in hidden prisons.
As middle-aged Jeremy discovers, Sylphania is a concentration camp where failure to lose weight and tone up leads to brutal punishment.
The Rev. Earl's public sympathy for the overweight conceals a private contempt . . . and, beneath that, a terrible longing known only to a select few.
The inevitable decay of old age is the only thing keeping mankind from reaching perfection. Luckily, Reverend Earl has a plan that will take care of that . . . .
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