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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
A graduate student discovers a mysterious book that leads him to a hidden underground library and a world of magic, love, and adventure.
From the, New York Times, bestselling author of, The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a ... (Goodreads)
The Ghost Bride
by Yangsze Choo
A young woman's journey to the spirit world, as she discovers the power of faith and fate.
A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists. 'One ... (Goodreads)
Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
A young woman's battle to save her home from a magical force, while uncovering secrets of her past.
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human ... (Goodreads)
Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
A young woman turns silver into gold and attracts the attention of a dangerous fae king. She must use her wits to outsmart him and save her kingdom.
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty–until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. ... (Goodreads)
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
by Ruth Emmie Lang
A boy raised by wolves, Weylyn Grey, navigates life with his unique abilities and the extraordinary animals he befriends.
Full of nature and wonder, love and adventure,, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, is a beautifully written novel that “bristles with charm and curiosity” (Winston Groom,, New York Times, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon, a swordswoman, competes in a deadly game of puzzles and challenges to become an immortal servant. But dark secrets lurk in the shadows.
Gideon the Ninth is set in a galactic empire of nine planets, each ruled by a noble house that practices its own unique type of necromancy . Although advanced technology exists, the Nine Houses ... (Wikipedia)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring factions fall in love through letters, risking everything to be together.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the ... (Goodreads)
Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy "Alex" Stern, a survivor of multiple homicides, is offered a full ride to Yale in exchange for monitoring the university's secret societies.
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer ... (Goodreads)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
A young woman, Cussy, delivers books to the rural people of Kentucky during the Great Depression, facing discrimination and finding solace in her blue skin.
In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project , delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains . ... (Wikipedia)
The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie
A god watches over a kingdom, as a usurper threatens the rightful heir. A tale of power, loyalty, and sacrifice.
In the Raven Tower universe, many gods of varying levels of power exist. Anything that a god says becomes true; speaking a paradox may injure or kill a god. Gods may take the physical forms of ... (Wikipedia)
Once Upon a River
by Diane Setterfield
A young girl is pulled from the river Thames, dead, until she suddenly comes back to life. Her identity and the events that led to her near-death are shrouded in mystery.
On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a ... (Goodreads)
Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
by Brandon Sanderson
Eight stories set in the same universe, exploring the power of imagination and the limits of reality.
Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn series the tales of Elantris, and others, comprising a unique constellation of ... (Goodreads)
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
A small group of misfit college students uncover a sinister secret and their lives become entangled with dangerous consequences.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the ... (Goodreads)
Still Life
by Louise Penny
A murder investigation leads to the discovery of secrets surrounding a small Canadian town.
Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards., Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat's life of imprisonment in a grand hotel, discovering the beauty of life in confinement.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, ... (Goodreads)
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
by Adam Gidwitz
A medieval adventure across France, featuring three miracle-working children and their loyal dog.
The novel is told by multiple narrators, all travelers at the Holy Cross-Roads Inn near Paris, set in early March 1242. Marie, a brewer from the town of Saint-Geneviève, starts the story of Jeanne ... (Wikipedia)
The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
A world divided by religion and dragons, where a queen must unite the land to defeat an ancient evil.
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to ... (Goodreads)
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
by Kelli Estes
A Chinese-American girl discovers a silk sleeve embroidered with a story of forbidden love and uncovers a dark history of her family's past.
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing and the power of our ... (Barnes & Noble)
Howl’s Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
A young woman embarks on an adventure to break a curse and reclaim her identity in a magical world.
18-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the ... (Wikipedia)
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A diplomat's mission to a distant planet, exploring themes of gender and identity.
The protagonist of the novel is Genly Ai, a male Terran native, who is sent to invite the planet Gethen to join the Ekumen, a coalition of humanoid worlds. , Ai travels to the Gethen planetary system ... (Wikipedia)
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
A man must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle, but each day he wakes up in a different body, reliving the same day over and over again.
Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different ... (Goodreads)
Leviathan Wakes
by James S.A. Corey
Space adventure of two unlikely allies in a fight to save humanity.
The ice hauling ship Canterbury (nicknamed the Cant by Belters) is en route from Saturn's Rings to Ceres Station when it encounters a distress signal . Five members of the Cant 's crew are dispatched ... (Wikipedia)
The Fifth Season
by N.K. Jemisin
A world where seismic and magical disasters ravage the land, and a woman's journey to save humanity.
In a prologue, an extraordinarily powerful orogene discusses the sad state of the world and laments the oppression of his race. He then uses his enormous power to fracture the entire continent along ... (Wikipedia)
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Murderbot navigates a dangerous world while struggling to maintain its own autonomy.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are ... (Goodreads)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
A family's secrets and a girl's quest for the truth about her own identity.
The, New York Times, bestselling author of, The Jane Austen Book Club, introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni
Sam Hell, born with ocular albinism, navigates life's challenges with the help of his mother, a nun, and a friend.
Wall Street Journal, and, New York Times, bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to, Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
A science fiction novel exploring the consequences of first contact with an alien civilization.
The story takes place in flash-forwards, flashbacks, and the present time. Below is a chronological plotline. During the Cultural Revolution , Ye Wenjie, an astrophysics graduate from Tsinghua ... (Wikipedia)
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
A young black babysitter is accused of kidnapping the white child she cares for, exposing the complexities of race and privilege in modern America.
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her ... (Goodreads)
The Forgetting Time
by Sharon Guskin
A single father's journey to uncover the mystery of his son's memories from a past life.
“What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across decades and continents?…A relentlessly paced page-turner and a profound meditation on the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
A collection of short stories exploring the nature of humanity, consciousness, and the universe through science fiction and fantasy.
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In "The Merchant and the ... (Goodreads)
