Fantasy

Last Updated: October 30, 2024

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time. This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side.

The Naming Son by Jedidiah Berry

The Naming Son
by Jedidiah Berry

When the words went away, the world changed. All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named- Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names- could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown. For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future-for the words she carries will reshape the world.

The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter

The Crimson Crown
by Heather Walter

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest villain of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her side of the story in this queer, witchy re-imagining of the classic fairy tale from the author of Malice.

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

Mirrored Heavens
by Rebecca Roanhorse

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy.

Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling

Fear the Flames
by Olivia Rose Darling

Elowen Atarah was ripped away from her dragons and imprisoned as a child by her father, King Garrick of Imirath, but years later, Elowen is now a woman determined to free them. Having established a secret kingdom of her own called Aestilian, she’s ready to do what’s necessary to save her people and seek vengeance against the father who sought to destroy her and her dragon bond.

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

The Book of Elsewhere
by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

A warrior who cannot be killed, known simply as “B”, wants to die and a U.S. black-ops group has promised they can help with that if he helps them in return, but when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event points to a force even more mysterious than B himself.

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djèlí Clark

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins-resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories-have only three unbreakable vows. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.