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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder.
Elatsoe
People of Color · Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Indigenous Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder. Drawing on family, history, and ancestral knowledge, she confronts a town built on secrets. This award-winning YA fantasy holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and widespread critical acclaim.
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A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.
Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.
Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?
A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
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Francesca May’s Wild and Wicked Things is a gothic 1920s fantasy brimming with illicit magic, dangerous romance, and murder.
Wild and Wicked Things
Occult Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Lesbian Romance · Magical Realism
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Francesca May’s Wild and Wicked Things is a gothic 1920s fantasy brimming with illicit magic, dangerous romance, and murder. An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 with 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this haunting tale of Crow Island will enchant fans of dark, decadent fantasy where witchcraft is irresistible—and wickedness always costs.
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The 1920s glitter on Crow Island, but beneath the champagne and smoke, something darker stirs. Annie Mason arrives with practical intentions: settle her estranged father’s estate and perhaps mend her fractured bond with Beatrice, the best friend who left her behind. She has no interest in magic—not after it ruined her life.
But Crow Island thrives on temptation. And no temptation is greater than Emmeline Delacroix, Annie’s mysterious new neighbor, said to dabble in witchcraft and worse. Drawn into Emmeline’s glittering, dangerous world, Annie soon finds herself seduced by spells, secrets, and desires she never expected.
As whispers of murder spread, Annie must decide whether to embrace the wickedness she fears—or be consumed by it. On Crow Island, magic always demands a price.
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut When We Were Birds is a mythic Trinidadian love story, named one of The New York Times’ Best Books of the Year.
When We Were Birds
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Magical Realism
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut When We Were Birds is a mythic Trinidadian love story, named one of The New York Times’ Best Books of the Year. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this radiant novel of inheritance, loss, and love’s power to heal unfolds in a haunted cemetery where fate, tradition, and passion converge.
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In the city of Port Angeles, where rainforest shadows press against crumbling streets, Yejide stands on the edge of inheritance. Her dying mother leaves her a legacy older than memory: the St. Bernard women alone can guide the restless dead into the afterlife. But Yejide, scarred by years of neglect, wants freedom—not duty.
Darwin arrives from the countryside, newly shorn of his dreadlocks, burdened with a faith that forbids him from touching death. Yet the only job he can find is as a gravedigger in Fidelis Cemetery, where the dead do not rest easily.
As Yejide and Darwin’s paths entwine, myth and reality collide in a tale of love, loss, and fate. Some inherit curses. Others inherit callings. Together, they may inherit hope.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a Nebula Award finalist and NPR Best Book of the Year.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism · People of Color
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a Nebula Award finalist and NPR Best Book of the Year. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this dazzling 1920s fairy tale follows Casiopea, a young woman who unleashes the Mayan god of death and joins him on a perilous quest through Mexico’s jazz age and underworld.
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Casiopea Tun spends her days scrubbing floors in her grandfather’s house, dreaming of escape. Her life feels as small as her dusty town in southern Mexico—until she opens a forbidden wooden box and unleashes a god. Not just any god, but Hun-Kamé, the Mayan god of death, betrayed and dethroned by his brother.
Bound to him by fate, Casiopea must help reclaim his throne or face destruction herself. Her journey spans 1920s Mexico, from Yucatán’s jungles to Mexico City’s glittering jazz halls, and finally into the obsidian depths of Xibalba, the underworld.
As myth and modernity collide, Casiopea finds not only danger but freedom, identity, and even love. But the road to destiny is paved in shadows—will she survive the gods’ game?
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Anjali Sachdeva’s All the Names They Used for God is an award-winning debut short story collection praised by Roxane Gay as “one of the best.” Winner of the…
All the Names They Used for God
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Speculative Fiction
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Anjali Sachdeva’s All the Names They Used for God is an award-winning debut short story collection praised by Roxane Gay as “one of the best.” Winner of the Chautauqua Prize and longlisted for The Story Prize, this genre-defying work blends sci-fi, myth, and magical realism. With a 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it’s dark, dazzling, and unforgettable.
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In All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva bends reality into something strange, gorgeous, and unforgettable. A group of Nigerian schoolgirls, kidnapped by Boko Haram, search for meaning in the aftermath of trauma. A man falls under the spell of a mermaid. Seven genetically engineered sisters grapple with a mysterious illness that threatens to undo them.
Across science fiction, Gothic, magical realism, and horror, these stories refuse to fit neatly into one box. What unites them is a fierce confrontation with fate—characters pushed to the limits of survival, wonder, and despair, searching for the sublime in a fractured world.
Daring, haunting, and limitlessly imaginative, this award-winning collection proves why Roxane Gay calls it “one of the best” she’s ever read.
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Perfect for fans of heartwarming stories about love, loss, and second chances.
Harry’s Trees
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Jon Cohen’s Harry’s Trees is a USA Today bestseller that blends grief, hope, and a touch of magic. With a 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this uplifting tale follows a grieving widower, a determined girl, and a mysterious book that binds them together. Perfect for fans of heartwarming stories about love, loss, and second chances.
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Harry Crane never expected to become a widower at thirty-four. Crushed by grief, he abandons his job with the U.S. Forest Service and retreats into the wilds of Pennsylvania, determined to disappear. But fate, it seems, has other plans.
Oriana, a fiercely imaginative young girl mourning her own father’s death, believes Harry holds the key to healing her fractured world. With her mother, Amanda, and the town’s courageous librarian, they hatch an extraordinary scheme sparked by a mysterious book.
Reluctant at first, Harry soon finds himself swept into a golden adventure that blends loss, magic, and hope. To help Oriana is to confront his own pain—and maybe discover that even broken hearts can grow again.
Sometimes redemption hides in unexpected places.
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Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night is a literary horror masterpiece longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and hailed as one of TIME’s 10 Best Novels of the…
Our Share of Night
Horror · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night is a literary horror masterpiece longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and hailed as one of TIME’s 10 Best Novels of the Year. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this cult-haunted, multigenerational tale blends grief, terror, and the occult into an unforgettable reading experience praised by The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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When Mariana dies, she leaves behind more than grief. Her husband, Juan, and their young son, Gaspar, inherit her family’s dark legacy: the Order, a secretive cult that commits unspeakable acts in pursuit of immortality. Now father and son must navigate a world where bloodlines are destiny and escape is nearly impossible.
As the Order closes in, Juan struggles to shield Gaspar from the horrors awaiting him, but even love may not be enough to sever the chains of inheritance. From swinging London to Argentina’s military dictatorship, the past and present collide in a tale where ghosts linger, desire twists, and family becomes the most terrifying prison of all.
Epic, unsettling, and unforgettable, Our Share of Night is literary horror at its most masterful.
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Ryan La Sala’s Reverie is a wildly inventive YA fantasy where dream worlds become reality—and threaten to destroy it.
Reverie
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Ryan La Sala’s Reverie is a wildly inventive YA fantasy where dream worlds become reality—and threaten to destroy it. A B&N YA Book Club Pick and Indie Next selection with a 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this “joyously, riotously queer” (Kirkus) debut blends imagination, danger, and LGBTQ+ representation into a dazzling, unforgettable adventure.
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Kane Montgomery should be dead. Weeks ago, he was dragged half-conscious from a river with no memory of how he got there. Now, reality itself feels unstable. Colors are sharper, shadows heavier, and impossible things keep breaking through.
Then three classmates appear, claiming to be his friends—and the only ones who know what’s happening. Kane isn’t sure who to trust, but he doesn’t have much time to decide. Fantastical dreamscapes are bleeding into the real world, each more dazzling and dangerous than the last. And at the heart of it all lies a dark magic that ties back to Kane’s missing memories.
If he can’t unlock the truth, Kane won’t just lose himself. He might watch reality unravel for everyone.
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In the shadow of a nation’s birth, a child’s life begins already entwined with history’s weight and consequence.
Midnight’s Children
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Psychological Fiction
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In the shadow of a nation’s birth, a child’s life begins already entwined with history’s weight and consequence. In Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie follows Saleem Sinai, whose telepathic link to others born at India’s independence binds him to a fractured, evolving country. This is literary fiction shaped by memory, identity, and myth, where personal fate and national destiny become impossible to separate.
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The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)
WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.
This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Forty years after its publication, Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
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Freya Marske’s A Restless Truth is a sparkling queer historical fantasy of magic, murder, and shipboard romance.
A Restless Truth
Historical Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Lesbian Romance · Magical Realism
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Freya Marske’s A Restless Truth is a sparkling queer historical fantasy of magic, murder, and shipboard romance. A New York Times Editors’ Choice and international bestseller with starred reviews, it follows Maud Blyth and the scandalous Violet Debenham as they unravel murder and conspiracy at sea. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is mystery and romance at their most dazzling.
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Maud Blyth signed up for adventure, but she didn’t mean this. Tasked with escorting an elderly woman across the Atlantic, Maud instead finds her charge murdered on day one of the voyage. Now she’s stranded on an ocean liner with a corpse, a talking parrot, a ship full of suspects, and one dangerously captivating ally.
Enter Violet Debenham: scandalous actress, talented magician, and everything Maud should avoid. Together, the two must navigate murder, magic, and mounting desire while chasing down a powerful object that’s worth killing for.
Trapped at sea, masks will slip, alliances will fracture, and every revelation cuts closer to the truth. To survive, Maud must risk more than her life—she must risk her heart. Who said adventure was safe?
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Simone van der Vlugt’s Midnight Blue is a European bestseller set in Holland’s Golden Age, perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Midnight Blue
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Simone van der Vlugt’s Midnight Blue is a European bestseller set in Holland’s Golden Age, perfect for fans of The Miniaturist and Girl with a Pearl Earring. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this richly atmospheric tale follows a widowed woman whose hidden talent as a painter leads her to Delft where art, danger, and independence collide.
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Amsterdam, 1654. Newly widowed at twenty-five, Catrin flees her small village, desperate for a fresh start. She finds work as a housekeeper for a wealthy merchant family—and accidentally discovers her own extraordinary gift. When Rembrandt himself recognizes her talent, Catrin dares to dream of a life defined not by loss, but by art.
But secrets don’t stay buried. When a figure from her past threatens her fragile new beginning, she escapes to Delft, where her designs on blue-and-white pottery spark a revolution that will make Delftware famous across Europe.
Still, tragedy shadows her steps, forcing Catrin to choose between survival and the independence she’s fought so hard to claim. In a gilded age of art and ambition, how much will freedom cost?
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs.
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock is a spellbinding debut of obsession, wit, and wonder. With a 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon and named a People Best Book of the Fall, this bawdy, magical tale of an 18th-century merchant and a courtesan shimmers with intrigue and unforgettable allure.
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In 1785 London, merchant Jonah Hancock receives news no businessman expects: his ship has been sold for a mermaid. What arrives is no shimmering beauty but a grotesque, shriveled creature with claws, teeth, and the body of a fish. Yet curiosity proves more valuable than cargo, and soon Jonah’s fortune rises as all of London clamors to see the marvel.
His newfound fame carries him from grimy docks to glittering parlors, where he meets Angelica Neal—a dazzling courtesan with ambitions as sharp as her beauty. Their fates intertwine in a dangerous dance of desire, power, and peril.
But obsession carries a price, and the line between wonder and ruin blurs quickly. What will Jonah and Angelica sacrifice in pursuit of the extraordinary?
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