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The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

A wild girl in medieval Russia can see the household spirits her Christian village is being taught to fear, and she alone understands what will happen...

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The Beautiful

Renée Ahdieh

New Orleans, 1872: Celine Rousseau arrives from Paris carrying a deadly secret and is drawn into the gilded world of the Société de la Cour des Lions ...

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The Black Prism

Brent Weeks

For Game of Thrones readers drawn to the political architecture and the secret histories that undermine everything characters think they know. Weeks b...

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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

The closest thing in fantasy to Game of Thrones' moral architecture: multiple POV characters with competing loyalties, a plot moving toward war nobody...

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The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen

A princess dispatched to spy on an enemy king discovers that everything she believed about him — and her own kingdom — is a lie. Jensen writes some of...

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The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

A mortal girl stolen to the fae world engineers her way into the heart of power among a court of ruthless faeries — including the prince who loathes h...

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The Darkness That Comes Before

R. Scott Bakker

A philosopher-warrior who has mastered the science of human behavior to near-omniscience joins a holy war that is being manipulated by forces no one i...

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The Ember Blade

Chris Wooding

A young man in a conquered nation joins a ragtag resistance to steal a legendary sword that could unite his people against their occupiers — an advent...

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The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan

Five young villagers are chased from their home by forces of darkness and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they can barely comprehend. Jordan&apos...

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The Gilded Wolves

Roshani Chokshi

In Belle Époque Paris, a half-Indian hotelier assembles a crew of misfits to steal an ancient artifact before a powerful secret society uses it to res...

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The Goblin Emperor

Katherine Addison

The youngest, most neglected son of an emperor unexpectedly inherits the throne and must find a way to be good in a court built on cruelty. A quiet ma...

The Hero of Ages

Brandon Sanderson

The culmination of Era 1 delivers one of fantasy's most jaw-dropping reveals and a conclusion that reframes everything you thought you knew....

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The Heroes

Joe Abercrombie

Three days of a single battle in Abercrombie's First Law world, told from both sides of the lines — soldiers, generals, and bystanders — as a war that...

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune

A case worker for magical beings is assigned to evaluate a mysterious orphanage and finds himself falling for the children, the island, and the enigma...

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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

A girl from the poorest district volunteers to fight in a televised death match against tributes from wealthier, better-trained sectors — and becomes ...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab

A woman makes a deal with a dark god to live forever, cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets — until she meets the one person who remembers her....

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The Iron King

Julie Kagawa

A teenage girl discovers her little brother has been stolen and replaced by a fae changeling — and follows him into the Nevernever, a dangerous realm ...

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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri

A disgraced princess and a maidservant with forbidden magic are thrown together in a crumbling empire on the edge of revolution. Suri writes with the ...

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

For Game of Thrones readers who want the political complexity and the morally grey characters delivered through a heist narrative with exceptional wit...

The Mask of Mirrors

M.A. Carrick

A con artist infiltrates a noble house in a city of masks and political intrigue — bringing warmth, humor, and a found-family ensemble to a world of e...

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

Nora Seed discovers a library between life and death containing every book representing every life she could have lived — and must decide which one is...

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The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

A legendary figure who is now hiding as an innkeeper tells the true story of his rise — from orphan street rat to the most feared man alive — to a scr...

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Two magicians are raised from childhood to compete in a mysterious duel — neither knowing the rules or the cost. An atmosphere-soaked tragedy dressed ...

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The Poppy War

R.F. Kuang

Game of Thrones readers who want the same unflinching honesty about what war actually does — to soldiers, to civilians, to the people who survive — wi...

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