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Vanyel wants to be a Bard, not a magical prodigy.
Magic’s Pawn
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Vanyel wants to be a Bard, not a magical prodigy. But his wild talent might destroy everything unless he learns control fast. Magic’s Pawn, the Lambda Award–winning start to Mercedes Lackey’s Last Herald-Mage trilogy, blends identity, heartbreak, and high fantasy. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is Valdemar like you’ve never seen it.
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Vanyel wants nothing more than to be a Bard. Not a warrior. Not a mage. Definitely not a Herald.
But fate doesn’t care what Vanyel wants. Born with rare and volatile magical talent, he’s sent to train under his aunt, the formidable Herald-Mage Savil. Their clashes are as explosive as Vanyel’s abilities, which grow more dangerous by the day.
When a reckless spell unleashes nightmare creatures across Valdemar, Vanyel’s raw power becomes a national threat. Now, it’s not just about learning control. It’s about survival—for himself, for Savil, and for a kingdom teetering on magical catastrophe.
What begins as a boy’s rebellion becomes a battle for identity, love, and legacy in this Lambda Award–winning fantasy about power, pain, and finding your place in a world that fears you.
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When Sunhawks leader Idra vanishes, Tarma and Kethry race into a kingdom teetering on betrayal in Oathbreakers, the gripping sequel to The Oathbound.
Oathbreakers
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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When Sunhawks leader Idra vanishes, Tarma and Kethry race into a kingdom teetering on betrayal in Oathbreakers, the gripping sequel to The Oathbound. Full of court intrigue, fierce loyalty, and deadly magic, this second Vows and Honor novel has 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon and delivers high-stakes fantasy with iconic female leads.
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When a trusted leader vanishes, loyalty becomes a deadly calling.
The mercenary company known as the Sunhawks thrives under Idra’s command—until she disappears without a trace while returning to her homeland of Rethwellan. Rumors swirl, tensions rise, and the once-stable kingdom shows signs of rot beneath the crown.
Tarma, swordmaster of the Hawk Clan, and Kethry, sorceress and bearer of a sentient sword, don’t wait for orders. Bound by oath and friendship, they ride out to uncover the truth behind Idra’s silence.
What they find is treachery at the highest levels, a plot that threatens war, and an enemy who knows exactly how to exploit their weaknesses. To save their friend and stop a kingdom from crumbling, they’ll have to risk everything.
Who do you trust when the crown itself lies?
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A swordmaster out for vengeance and a runaway sorceress with a magical blade team up in The Oathbound, the fierce start to Mercedes Lackey’s Vows and Honor trilogy.
The Oathbound
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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A swordmaster out for vengeance and a runaway sorceress with a magical blade team up in The Oathbound, the fierce start to Mercedes Lackey’s Vows and Honor trilogy. Packed with gritty magic, divine missions, and a legendary female duo, this epic fantasy has 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon and a cult following for a reason.
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The first book in the Vows and Honor trilogy unites swordmaster and sorceress in a quest for revenge in this thrilling epic fantasy
She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin’a’in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And trained in all the forms of death-dealing combat, she took to the road in search of her enemies.
She was Kethry. Born to a noble house, sold into a hateful “marriage”, she fled life’s harshness for the sanctuary of the White Winds, a powerful school of sorcery. Becoming an adept, she pledged to use her talents for the greatest good. Yet unlike other sorcerers, Kethry could use worldly weapons as well as magical skills. And when she became the bearer of a uniquely magical sword that drew her to those in need, Kethry was led to a fateful meeting with Tarma.
United by sword-spell and the will of the Goddess, Tarma and Kethry swore a blood oath to carry on their mutual fight against evil. And together, swordsmaster and sorceress set forth to fulfill their destiny….
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Talia returns to court just as dark magic threatens the throne in Arrow’s Fall, the powerful finale to Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows trilogy.
Arrow’s Fall
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Talia returns to court just as dark magic threatens the throne in Arrow’s Fall, the powerful finale to Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows trilogy. Intrigue, sorcery, and a traitorous prince push the Queen’s Own Herald to her limits. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this classic fantasy will keep you reading long past bedtime.
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Talia has returned to court as the Queen’s Own Herald, just in time for a storm of political scheming.
With heir Princess Elspeth now of marriageable age, foreign suitors and ambitious nobles descend on Valdemar with one goal: control the crown. Talia is ready to unmask the traitor orchestrating the chaos, but before she can act, she’s sent on a diplomatic mission to evaluate a proposal from Prince Ancar.
What she finds is no courtly romance. Beneath Ancar’s polished charm lies something darker—an ancient, forbidden magic spreading through his kingdom like rot.
Cut off from help, Talia must find a way to outwit a sorcerer and send a warning home. Because if she fails, Valdemar won’t face a royal scandal. It will face annihilation.
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A teenage runaway hears voices that may not be her own, pulling her into a hidden conflict she cannot escape.
The Bone Clocks
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Magical Realism
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A teenage runaway hears voices that may not be her own, pulling her into a hidden conflict she cannot escape. In The Bone Clocks, Holly Sykes moves through decades shaped by loss, memory, and an unseen war between rival immortals. David Mitchell blends literary fiction with speculative elements, creating a layered narrative about time, identity, and the fragile boundary between the ordinary and the surreal.
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The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize •Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine • A New York Times Notable Book • An American Library Association Notable Book • Winner of the World Fantasy Award
“With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”—Los Angeles Times
Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure—it is fiction at its most spellbinding.
Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including
NPR • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • The Guardian • Slate • BuzzFeed
“One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR
“[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.”—The Washington Post
“[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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Ideal for readers drawn to sweeping Southern family sagas, complicated sibling relationships, dark family histories, and emotionally intense literary fiction.
The Prince of Tides
Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
Our take
“A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck’s East of Eden.” — Detroit Free Press. Tom Wingo confronts the complex and damaging legacy of his dysfunctional Southern family while trying to help his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 10,400 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers drawn to sweeping Southern family sagas, complicated sibling relationships, dark family histories, and emotionally intense literary fiction.
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“A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck’s East of Eden. … Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think. The Prince of Tides is a rarity: It does all three.” — Detroit Free Press
A modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the complex and damaging family legacy they share. Moving between the sparkling glamour of New York City and the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country, The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy’s masterwork.
“A big, sprawling saga of a novel…the kind you hole up with and spend some days with and put down feeling you have emerged from a terrible, wonderful spell.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A literary gem . . . The Prince of Tides is in the best tradition of novel writing. It is an engrossing story of unforgettable characters.” —The Pittsburgh Press
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to humorous historical fiction, Frankenstein-inspired storytelling, social satire, and unconventional heroines.
Poor Things
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Called “witty and delightfully written” by the New York Times Book Review, Poor Things follows Bella Baxter, a resurrected young woman in Victorian Glasgow who rejects the men seeking to control her and pursues freedom, desire, and her own understanding of love, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to humorous historical fiction, Frankenstein-inspired storytelling, social satire, and unconventional heroines.
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NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald’s motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin’s, who claims her body and soul.
But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself—and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life.
“Gray has the look of a latter-day William Blake, with his extravagant myth-making, his strong social conscience, his liberating vision of sexuality and his flashes of righteous indignation tempered with scathing wit and sly self-mockery.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“This work of inspired lunacy effectively skewers class snobbery, British imperialism, prudishness and the tenets of received wisdom.”—Publishers Weekly
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Perfect for fans of The Secret Book of Flora Lea.
The Story She Left Behind
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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The Story She Left Behind (4.7 out of 5 stars) is a gorgeously written literary mystery from Patti Callahan Henry. Inspired by a true story, this dual-timeline novel follows a daughter’s search for her vanished mother, a missing manuscript, and the truth behind a language only one woman could write. Perfect for fans of The Secret Book of Flora Lea.
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In 1927, a young girl’s world shatters when her mother—child prodigy and literary sensation Bronwyn Fordham—vanishes without a trace. What’s left behind is grief, a half-finished story, and a language only Bronwyn could write.
Years later, Clara is an illustrator, a mother herself, and still haunted by questions. When a stranger in London claims to have uncovered her mother’s lost dictionary, Clara hesitates. But the pull of the past is too strong.
With her daughter in tow, Clara journeys across the Atlantic, only to land in the heart of the Great Smog. Stranded in the English countryside, she’s forced to confront her mother’s legacy, the pain she buried, and the possibility of truth.
Some stories are never finished. Others are waiting to be found.
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A thoughtful fit for readers who enjoy dual timelines, family relationships, and historical fiction centered on women's lives.
The Turtle House
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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A multigenerational historical novel following Minnie and her granddaughter Lia across pre-World War II Japan and late-1990s Texas. Through their shared connection to a lost place, the two women confront family secrets and their complicated histories. A thoughtful fit for readers who enjoy dual timelines, family relationships, and historical fiction centered on women's lives.
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“A heartbreakingly resonant debut, The Turtle House is a tender, big-hearted story about women, family, and the complicated history of Texas. These characters, and their tentative, flawed stumblings toward grace, will stay with me.”—Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine
“Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchill’s Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.”—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City
Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.
It’s spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride. Both women are at a turning point: Mineko, long widowed, moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after a suspicious fire destroyed the Cope family ranch house, while Lia, an architect with a promising career in Austin, has unexpectedly returned under circumstances she refuses to explain.
Though Lia never felt especially close to her grandmother, the two grow close sharing late-night conversations. In this moving dual timeline historical fiction, Mineko tells stories of her early life in Japan, of the war that changed everything, and of her two great loves: a man named Akio Sato and an abandoned Japanese country estate they called the Turtle House, where their relationship took root. As Mineko reveals more of her early life—tales of innocent swimming lessons that blossom into something more, a friendship nurtured across oceans, totems saved and hidden, the heartbreak of love lost too soon—Lia comes to understand the depth of her grandmother’s pain and sacrifice and sees her Texas family in a new light. She also recognizes that it’s she who needs to come clean—about the budding career she abandoned and the mysterious man who keeps calling.
When Mineko’s adult children decide, against her wishes, to move her into an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life, one that they hope will offer the safety and sense of belonging they both need, no matter the cost.
A story of intergenerational friendship, family, coming of age, identity, love, and buried family secrets, The Turtle House illuminates the hidden lives we lead, the secrets we hold close, and what it truly means to find home again when it feels lost forever.
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and now a Starz miniseries, The Luminaries (4.2 out of 5 stars) spins a dazzling tale of gold, ghosts, and secrets in…
The Luminaries
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Magical Realism
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and now a Starz miniseries, The Luminaries (4.2 out of 5 stars) spins a dazzling tale of gold, ghosts, and secrets in 1866 New Zealand. Eleanor Catton’s richly layered epic blends historical fiction with mystery and fate, delivering a novel as intricately crafted as the stars that guide its plot.
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Walter Moody arrives in New Zealand seeking fortune in the goldfields. Instead, he walks into a secret meeting of twelve strangers and a mystery too intricate to ignore.
A vanished millionaire. A ruined prostitute. A drunken man with gold he shouldn’t have. What connects them is unclear, but Moody is pulled into a labyrinth of suspicion, ambition, and fate.
Set against the opulence and grit of the 1866 gold rush, The Luminaries unfolds like a puzzle box. Every chapter, every character, every celestial metaphor reveals another layer.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and adapted into a Starz miniseries, Eleanor Catton’s masterpiece is a historical epic, a ghost story, and a literary feat rolled into one.
Nothing in this town is accidental. And everyone has something to hide.
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A prophetic dystopian classic from Hugo Award winner Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower blends survival, faith, and visionary worldbuilding.
Parable of the Sower
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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A prophetic dystopian classic from Hugo Award winner Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower blends survival, faith, and visionary worldbuilding. With a 4.6-star Amazon rating and #BookTok acclaim, this unforgettable tale follows a teen girl forging a new path in a collapsing world. Butler’s words burn bright—and feel eerily relevant.
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The world is falling apart. She’s trying to build something new.
In 2020s California, fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside the walls of a gated community—safe from the fires, famine, and violence consuming the outside world. But safety is an illusion, and Lauren knows it won’t last.
Born with hyperempathy, Lauren feels others’ pain as her own. In a collapsing society where weakness is fatal, it’s a dangerous gift. But when tragedy rips away her home, she’s forced into the wilderness with nothing but her wits, a backpack, and a dream for something better.
Her vision becomes Earthseed—a radical new belief in shaping the future through change.
Octavia E. Butler’s masterpiece is more than a dystopia. It’s a prophecy. And it’s never felt more urgent.
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Good for readers who want cozy magical realism with bookish comfort, emotional healing, community, and second chances.
The Midnight Bookshop
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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The Midnight Bookshop follows strangers Jo, Adelaide, and Kye as a magical bookshop and midnight book club help them see how a single book can change everything, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 11,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want cozy magical realism with bookish comfort, emotional healing, community, and second chances.
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Long ago, a bookshop was born – the beating heart of all those who find hope within the pages of a book. With the words penned upon the echo of old forests, new worlds are created.
It’s ready and waiting to welcome all those who know where to find it…
Strangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop.
But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, all three realise that their own stories can be rewritten.
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