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The Princess Bride

William Goldman

True love, high adventure, and the best use of metafiction in fantasy history. Goldman's novel is even richer than the film adaptation — funnier,...

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

A sweeping epic with four interwoven storylines, two women falling in love across impossible distances, and an ancient evil resurrecting into a world ...

The Queen of Nothing

Holly Black

Jude Duarte returns to the fae world she was exiled from to reclaim what she built — and face the faerie king she can't stop loving. The explosiv...

🌶 Steamy

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent

A human girl enters a deadly vampire tournament where survival means trusting the one competitor everyone fears most. Viscerally plotted with stunning...

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Not traditional fantasy but included here for Game of Thrones readers who loved the layered mysteries and the sense of a world with deep, dark history...

🌶 Warm

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, an awkward prince, becomes the companion of Achilles and watches helplessly as the man he loves is consumed by his own legend. Miller'...

The Songbird and the Heart of Stone

Carissa Broadbent

A new couple, a different corner of the Nyaxia world — an assassin and the god she was sent to kill navigate an impossible attraction through a world ...

The Stolen Heir

Holly Black

A mortal girl raised in the fae world flees the Court of Teeth and teams up with a half-human prince on a mission that will reshape the faerie realm. ...

The Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

A thief is pulled from prison and tasked with stealing an object of legend for a king's magus — and is far cleverer than anyone around him suspects. T...

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

A lonely witch hired to tutor three magical children discovers the family she didn't know she needed. Warm, funny, romantic, and deeply invested ...

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The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

For Game of Thrones readers who want the sprawling world and the ensemble cast, but a magic system and world-building as inventive as the politics. Th...

The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

The empire has fallen — now the revolution must govern. Sanderson subverts every expectation of what a 'book two' should be....

The Wicked King

Holly Black

Jude has power now — and the cost of keeping it is far more dangerous than the cost of winning it. Black escalates every tension from Book 1 and ends ...

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The Winner's Curse

Marie Rutkoski

A general's daughter buys a slave at auction on impulse and discovers he is a leader of the conquered people her empire subjugated — and that she...

🌶 Warm

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh

A young woman volunteers to marry the murderous Caliph of Khorasan — the man who killed her best friend — with a plan to end his reign of terror, but ...

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These Hollow Vows

Lexi Ryan

A mortal girl crosses into the fae world to rescue her sister and is immediately caught between two rival courts — and the princes who rule them each ...

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

An assassin competes in a deadly tournament to win her freedom from the salt mines — the origin of Sarah J. Maas's signature blend of court intrigue a...

Vengeful

V.E. Schwab

The sequel introduces a new player — a woman who survived death and has plans of her own — while revisiting the fractured relationship at Vicious's co...

Vicious

V.E. Schwab

Two brilliant college students discover how to manufacture superpowers — then spend a decade plotting each other's destruction. A perfect antihero nov...

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Warbreaker

Brandon Sanderson

Two princesses are sent to a foreign court — one to marry a god-king she has never met, one to spy on a pantheon of living deities sustained by the Br...

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When the Moon Hatched

Sarah A. Parker

An assassin and a prince are bound by a past neither remembers in a world where dragons sleep as moons in the sky. Deeply original world-building, lyr...

Witch of Wild Things

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Sage can make plants grow uncontrollably near her coworker Teal — the one person she can't stand. A magical realism workplace romance set in a botanic...

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Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson

The second Stormlight volume raises every stake from The Way of Kings — Kaladin fights for command of the Royal Guard while Shallan races to reach the...

🌶 Steamy

Zodiac Academy

Caroline Peckham

Twin sisters discover they're heirs to a powerful throne and are immediately thrown into a brutal magical academy designed to make them fail. Think Fo...

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