Fantasy

Last Updated: July 9, 2026

Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter

Blood Bound
by Ellis Hunter

Astrid has always known she is destined to die. She is the last Nachstern witch and heir to the Queendom of Arturea, cursed by a centuries-old covenant to duel the heir to the Kingdom of Vatra for the source of all magic: the Heart. And now Astrid’s time is up.

Endless Blue Beneath by Shannon K. English

Endless Blue Beneath
by Shannon K. English

In this dark historical fantasy, a young girl is kidnapped and transformed into a flesh-eating mermaid.

Stay For a Spell by Amy Coombe

Stay For a Spell
by Amy Coombe

An overworked princess is cursed to remain in a bookshop until she discovers what her heart truly longs for, in this utterly charming and romantic cozy fantasy debut.

The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

The Unicorn Hunters
by Katherine Arden

Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Anne arranges a daring last gambit: a secret betrothal to Charles of France’s greatest rival. But secrets are hard to keep in a world where rival courts spy on each other with diviners.

Field Guide For the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K. England

When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm’s heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the spell…leaving destruction in their wake. And so, with a spell-damaged memory and whole bushel of trauma, Oaklin escapes to a small farm on the edge of Mossley’s Rest and swears an oath: After all the things they were forced to do with their magic, they will never use it again.

The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty

When Poppy Hill was a child she was stolen from her family’s Montana homestead and taken to the land of the fae, where she spent more than a century as a cook in the Wild King’s castle. Now back in the human world, she works for a company that brokers fairy bargains, looking for loopholes in their contracts. Then a bargain that Poppy is negotiating goes disastrously wrong and she has to return to the world she grew up in to try to rectify her mistake.

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn’t take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she’s been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters’ ambitions and fates.