Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
By: J.M. Miro
3.79
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
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1. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
By: Hannah Kaner
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"But gods love martyrs."-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)
2. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
3. The Familiar
By: Leigh Bardugo
3.84
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- magic
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar
4. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
5. The Book Eaters
By: Sunyi Dean
3.64
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain al… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"None of us are truly good,"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"How did one give shape to absence? Fill a black hole with light?"-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"Love has no cost for our children. Living or dead, here or gone."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
"I am not those people and I’m also not me. I can’t ever be me, I’m too full of other lives."-Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters
6. The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
By: Victoria Schwab
4.30
Format: 648 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and set in the … read more
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- magic
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"A head gets lost, but a heart knows home."-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
"Is it possible to have a death wish when you know you cannot die?"-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
"Just because we do not carry on doesn't mean we haven't been. We live a life, we leave a legacy. But the river runs one way and we are carried on it."-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
"I always wanted one. I don't know why. It wasn't ego. Some women just want to see their own reflection. I wanted to know what it felt like. To make another person. And then, when she was here, I want…"-Victoria Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)
7. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
By: Heather Fawcett
4.02
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and dis… read more
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- historical
- magic
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"I could not tell if he was terrible at drawing cats or if he simply had a terrible cat."-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she'd ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then …"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
"And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging onl…"-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
8. Babel
By: R.F. Kuang
4.18
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- magic
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
9. Starling House
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.83
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Survival is a hard habit to break."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
10. Thistlefoot
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
11. The Tainted Cup
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
None
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
12. Nettle & Bone
By: T. Kingfisher
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone
13. The Book of Doors
By: Gareth Brown
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors
"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors
14. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
By: Mark Lawrence
None
Format: 559 pages, Hardcover
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than ci… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
15. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
By: Shannon Chakraborty
4.27
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more
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- historical fantasy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
16. The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
By: Olivie Blake
3.55
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Socie… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Are you losing your mind?"-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
"Dinner together? Our last night?"-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
"Muder first and then scholarly pursuits"-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
"Murder first and then scholarly pursuits"-Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)
17. Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
By: Holly Black
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and … read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She was a poisoned well of a girl."-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
"Everyone loves the guy who brings ice."-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
"Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious."-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
"The problem with monsters is that you need to keep them leashed, or they turn on you."-Holly Black, Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
18. Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
By: Leigh Bardugo
4.13
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. F… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler."-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
"Life is cruel. Magic is real. And I’m not ready to die"-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
"She was the kind of girl who was always okay. “A survivor,"-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
"Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold."-Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
19. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
By: J.M. Miro
3.79
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more
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- gothic
- historical fantasy
- historical
- magic
- fiction
- historical fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
20. Ink Blood Sister Scribe
By: Emma Törzs
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's li… read more
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- magic
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
"...the closet of her sexual subconscious was full of petticoats."-Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
21. A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
