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An atmospheric fit for readers who like historical mysteries, Chinese folklore, and supernatural characters.
The Fox Wife
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Magical Realism
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Called “utterly captivating” by Oprah Daily, this historical fantasy follows Snow, a fox spirit seeking revenge for her child's death, and Bao, a detective investigating a mysterious woman's death in 1908 Manchuria. Their journeys cross a world shaped by ancient folklore, family secrets, and the uneasy relationship between humans and spirits. An atmospheric fit for readers who like historical mysteries, Chinese folklore, and supernatural characters.
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Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .
Manchuria, 1908.
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can’t escape the curse that afflicts them—their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family’s luck seems to change—or does it?
Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she’s a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.
New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection. Epic in scope and full of singular, unforgettable characters, The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about old loves and second chances, the depths of maternal love, and ancient folktales that may very well be true.
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A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
How to Be Eaten
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year, this darkly funny novel follows five women whose experiences resemble familiar fairy tales as they meet in a New York City trauma support group. As they share their stories, they begin questioning what happened to them and why they've been brought together. A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all.
Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other?
Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.
*Belletrist June Book Club Pick*
Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame.
The Wish Collector
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame. When Clara becomes drawn to the man hidden inside the ruins of Windisle Plantation, friendship slowly turns into something deeper and more fragile. This is an emotional romance with gothic atmosphere, tenderness, and the quiet ache of healing.
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New Orleans, a city of mystery and magic, of secrets and dreams, and a history drenched in both love and the deepest of heartache.
When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man. A scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.
The ruined man behind the wall hides himself from the world. The last thing he expects is to find a friend in the selfless girl who speaks to him through the cracks in the rock. The girl who keeps returning week after week. The girl who makes him wish for things he has long since given up on. The girl who strikes both fear and hope within his wounded heart. But there can be no future for them, no life beyond Windisle, for no one knows better than him that monsters only live in the dark.
The Wish Collector is the story of shame and triumph, of loneliness and love, and the miracle of two hearts connecting despite the strongest of barriers between them.
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In 1859, injured ex-smuggler Merrick Tremayne accepts a perilous mission to Peru to retrieve quinine, hoping to outrun the strange happenings at his crumbling Cornish estate.
The Bedlam Stacks
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism
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In 1859, injured ex-smuggler Merrick Tremayne accepts a perilous mission to Peru to retrieve quinine, hoping to outrun the strange happenings at his crumbling Cornish estate. In a village bordering the Amazon, he meets Raphael, a priest surrounded by rumors of vanishing men and living stone. As myth and reality blur, Merrick uncovers a dangerous legacy tied to his own family.
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An Indie Next Pick
Natasha Pulley's "witty, entrancing novel . . . burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea; nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon.
There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more valuable than quinine, and far more dangerous.
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life…
Death of the Author
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life and the story she meant to tell. From Chicago to Lagos and beyond, she confronts identity, autonomy, and the cost of creation. An instant national bestseller praised for its ambition and emotional depth.
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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Recommended by New York Times Book Review• People • NPR • Rolling Stone• Los Angeles Times• Reader's Digest• and more!
“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before.
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.
When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.
A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
“An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure
“A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels
"There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
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When the librarian of the Library of Fates dies and its rarest book disappears, Eleanor joins forces with Daniel, the son she once loved, to recover it.
The Library of Fates
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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When the librarian of the Library of Fates dies and its rarest book disappears, Eleanor joins forces with Daniel, the son she once loved, to recover it. Their search leads from Harvard to Paris as they uncover secrets someone is desperate to protect. Atmospheric and gripping, The Library of Fates mixes dark academia, magic, and psychological tension.
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When its librarian keeper mysteriously dies, two former classmates must race to locate a rare book from their college years that can foretell your future if you confess a secret from your past—but someone is intent on protecting what’s hidden inside.
It can write the story of your future... and hide the secrets of your past.
The Library of Fates was designed to show you who you are—and who you could become. Its rarest book, The Book of Dark Nights, holds a secret: when you write an intimate confession on its pages, you'll receive a prediction for your future, penned in your own handwriting.
For Eleanor, whose childhood was defined by a senseless tragedy, the library offers a world where everything makes sense. She’s spent most of her life there as an apprentice to the brilliant librarian, showing other people how to find the meaning of their lives in stories.
But when her mentor dies in a freak accident and The Book of Dark Nights goes missing—along with the secrets written inside—Eleanor is pulled out of the library and into a quest to locate it with the last person she expects: the librarian’s estranged son, Daniel, who Eleanor once loved.
Together, as they hunt down clues from Harvard to Paris, Eleanor and Daniel grow closer again, regaining each other’s trust. But little do they know that they’re entangled in a much larger web. Someone else wants the book, and they'll go to dark lengths to get it...
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny.
The Probable Future
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny. The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a haunting story of inherited gifts, hidden wounds, and the fragile bonds that can heal a family. A timeless tale of magic, memory, and forgiveness.
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Every woman in the Sparrow family is born with a gift, but some miracles feel more like burdens.
Elinor can sense lies, her daughter Jenny walks through other people’s dreams, and sixteen-year-old Stella can see the future—visions that soon unravel the fragile peace holding their family together. When one of Stella’s premonitions leads to tragedy, she is drawn into the life of the grandmother she never knew and the ancestral home where generations of women have lived and loved.
As secrets surface and forgiveness takes root, three generations must face the truth of who they are and what they share.
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a luminous novel of family, fate, and the fragile magic that binds us all.
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When Blue Bishop finds a newborn beneath the buttonwood tree, her gift for finding lost things changes everything.
South of the Buttonwood Tree
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When Blue Bishop finds a newborn beneath the buttonwood tree, her gift for finding lost things changes everything. Drawn together by fate, Blue and Sarah Grace must face long-buried secrets and make impossible choices about love and family. Heather Webber’s South of the Buttonwood Tree is a tender, magical story of discovery and belonging.
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In the shade of a buttonwood tree, a newborn waits to be found. Blue Bishop has spent her life discovering lost things, but nothing could prepare her for this.
Blue has always had a gift for finding what others lose, from trinkets to missing pets. But when she discovers an abandoned baby in the Alabama woods, her life collides with that of Sarah Grace Fulton, a woman trying desperately to do what’s right while hiding her own painful secrets.
Bound by fate and tested by truth, both women must decide what they’re willing to risk for love, family, and the chance to belong.
Heather Webber’s South of the Buttonwood Tree blends small-town charm, heartfelt emotion, and a touch of magic into one unforgettable story.
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When single mother Birdie follows a mysterious man into Alaska’s mountains, she believes she’s found a new beginning.
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When single mother Birdie follows a mysterious man into Alaska’s mountains, she believes she’s found a new beginning. But the wilderness hides secrets, and love may not be enough to save her. Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child, is a haunting modern fairy tale of survival, wonder, and sacrifice.
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Love can lead us home. It can also lead us into the dark.
Birdie is doing her best to survive as a single mother in a rugged Alaskan town, raising her daughter Emaleen while waiting tables and dreaming of a freer life. When a quiet stranger named Arthur saves Emaleen after she wanders into the woods, Birdie feels drawn to him and the wild landscape he calls home.
Ignoring every warning, she follows him into the mountains, believing she has found her second chance. But the forest keeps its secrets, and Arthur is not what he seems.
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child, is a mesmerizing dark fairy tale of love, survival, and the dangerous beauty of the natural world.
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M. John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again—winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and praised by Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, and William Gibson—is a haunting, unsettling…
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Psychological Fiction · Suspense
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M. John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again—winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and praised by Neil Gaiman, Russell T. Davies, and William Gibson—is a haunting, unsettling novel of conspiracies, drowned lands, and fractured lives. With a 4.1 out of 5 stars rating, this boundary-pushing masterpiece of literary fiction lingers long after the last page.
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Shaw is rebuilding his life after a breakdown. A rented room, a job on a crumbling London barge, and a fractured relationship with Victoria, a doctor’s daughter who grew up steeped in death. It isn’t much, but it’s enough—until shadows on the river begin whispering of conspiracies that feel less like theories and more like truth.
Victoria, meanwhile, is renovating her mother’s Midlands house. The neighbors are strange. The stories are stranger. A missing waitress. A pond no one dares approach. And an obsessive fascination with The Water Babies that runs like a curse through the town.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is haunting, enigmatic, and brilliant—literary fiction that seeps under your skin.
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From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes Faithful, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful novel of survival, guilt, and love.
Faithful
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes Faithful, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful novel of survival, guilt, and love. Shelby Richmond’s life is shattered by tragedy, but in New York City she finds healing, belonging, and even a touch of the extraordinary. With 4.3 out of 5 stars, Hoffman’s lyrical prose makes this a modern tale of resilience.
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Shelby Richmond was an ordinary Long Island teenager until one tragic night rewrote her life. Her best friend’s future was destroyed in a single accident, while Shelby survived—left with guilt, grief, and a heart she no longer recognizes.
As she stumbles through the aftermath, Shelby pulls away from love, from her family, from any sense of hope. Chinese takeout, stray dogs, and the wrong men become her companions in place of a future she can’t yet imagine. But New York City brings unexpected connections: a circle of lost souls, a chance at healing, and the presence of an angel who’s been with her since that icy night.
In Faithful, Alice Hoffman spins beauty from sorrow in a moving story of survival, love, and the long road back to yourself.
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Deanna Chase’s Soul of the Witch kicks off the beloved Keating Hollow series, a cozy paranormal romance full of magic, family, and second chances.
Soul of the Witch
Magical Realism · Romantasy
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Deanna Chase’s Soul of the Witch kicks off the beloved Keating Hollow series, a cozy paranormal romance full of magic, family, and second chances. When Abby Townsend returns to her hometown after a decade away, she finds love, healing, and a little witchy wonder. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, it’s a heartwarming small-town fantasy you’ll adore.
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Abby Townsend left Keating Hollow at eighteen, her magic abandoned after a potion gone wrong changed everything. For ten years she’s lived without spells, without her hometown, and without the boy she loved. But when her family calls her back to the redwood forest village she swore she’d never return to, Abby finds herself pulled into more than memory.
Keating Hollow is full of love, cupcakes, and witches who believe in happily ever afters. Abby insists she’s only passing through, but the town has other plans. Between the gaze of the man she can’t forget and the laughter of an eight-year-old witch who steals her heart, Abby’s magic stirs again.
Sometimes redemption doesn’t mean escape—it means finding the soul of home.
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