Valley of Shadows
By: Rudy Ruiz
3.98
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds li…
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1. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
2. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
3. Vampires of El Norte
By: Isabel Cañas
3.90
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
4. Piñata
By: Leopoldo Gout
3.67
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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5. River Woman, River Demon
By: Jennifer Givhan
3.60
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and emb… read more
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- mystery thriller
- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Santa Muerte, the bitchest boss of them all—keeper of death, prostitutes, drug addicts, the disenfranchised."-Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon
"Shadow can protect us. Darkness, too, has its blessings. Brujas know this. Mama knew this. Energy is energy. And brujas also know not to stay in one without the other for too long. Balance. An ourobo…"-Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon
"As we wind through the graves, I’m reminded of growing up down the road from the town dump to the north and the cemetery to the south, my own house haunting the center, equal radius to either destina…"-Jennifer Givhan, River Woman, River Demon
6. The Queen of the Cicadas
By: V. Castro
3.73
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm i… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
7. Venom & Vow
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your enemy closer. Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Va… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
8. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.57
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
9. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
By: Raul Palma
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w… read more
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- horror
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10. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
By: Yamile Saied Méndez
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more
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- audiobook
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
11. The Hacienda
By: Isabel Cañas
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- historical fiction
"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
12. Signal to Noise
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legend… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"When you looked at Meche the first impression was that she was going to punch you in the face; she was made of such strong angles. However, if you looked long enough there was a delicate softness ben…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"He sat back, his head against the door of the building. Meche, in turn, rested her head against his shoulder. For others, it might have been an intimate gesture. Maybe it was, but not in the way most…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
13. Sisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
3.88
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
14. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
15. The Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
16. Rust in the Root
By: Justina Ireland
4.09
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more
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- audiobook
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. All The Blood We Share
By: Camilla Bruce
3.52
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- historical fiction
18. The Storyteller's Death
By: Ann Dávila Cardinal
3.82
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
From International Latino Book Award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes a gorgeously written … read more
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- mystery thriller
- magical realism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
19. One-Shot Harry
By: Gary Phillips
3.48
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting h… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
20. The North Woods
By: Douglass Hoover
4.24
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Over three million acres of dense woodlands make up the North Maine Woods. There are no major towns… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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- audiobook
21. Beasts of the Earth: A Novel
By: James Wade
4.01
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as rhapsodic and haunting, delivers his most powerf… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
22. Desert Creatures
By: Kay Chronister
3.50
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more
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- westerns
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
23. The Family Izquierdo
By: Ruben Degollado
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022 Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award A masterful de… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
24. The Modern Fairies
By: Clare Pollard
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff’s The Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this the wry, sexy, and sharp hist… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"If there's such a thing as a kiss of true love, then we must declare that this is one of them: this moment in which their whole life trembles, like the world reflected in a drop of dew."-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"For a year or so the group stays intimate and exclusively feminine. But then, after Marie coins the term "contes de fées," or fairy tales, the fame of these "Modern Fairies" begins to spread too fast…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined …"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
"Perrault likes this bit of the tale--- the pattern of it. The rhythm. He likes the shapes things make. And he likes beautiful, refined things: frescos, hyacinths, clockmakers, marzipans, butterfly wi…"-Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
25. Isabel and the Rogue (The Luna Sisters, #2)
By: Liana De la Rosa
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When a Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Cruel Angels Past Sundown (Splatter Western)
By: Hailey Piper
3.80
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
New Mexico Territory, 1882: She comes to the Klein ranch at sunset, a strange naked pregnant woman … read more
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- westerns
- audiobook
- fiction
- horror
27. Maria, Maria and Other Stories
By: Marytza K. Rubio
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
28. Malas
By: Marcela Fuentes
3.96
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Valley of Shadows
By: Rudy Ruiz
3.98
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds li… read more
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30. Magia Magia: Invoking Mexican Magic
By: Alexis A Arredondo and Eric J Labrado
4.29
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Like Mexico, the witchcraft and spell casting of the borderland people is diverse, colorful, and de… read more
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31. Guillotine
By: Delilah S. Dawson
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more
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- horror
- mystery
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