Fantasy

The Book Witch

By Meg Shaffer (Fic Shaf, eBook, eAudiobook)

Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps into and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes.
The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones: a Novel

By Lex Croucher (Fic Crou)

Former childhood best friends reunite at a magical boarding school after years, only to find themselves enemies on opposite sides of the ugly secrets hidden within the gilded walls.
This Gilded Abyss

By Rebecca Thorne (Fic Thor)

Sergeant Nix Marr left her dark past buried beneath the sea. Then Kessandra, the people’s favorite princess and Nix's much-loathed ex, recruits Nix for a covert mission. Their goal is to investigate a massacre in the under-water city of Fall.
The Quarter Queen

By Kayla Hardy (Fic Hard)

A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth century New Orleans to save her mother—and the soul of the city itself—in this lush debut novel inspired by the life of Marie Laveau.
The Girl with a Thousand Faces

By Sunyi Dean (Fic Dean)

A Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive.
A Fae in Finance

By Juliet Brooks (Fic Broo)

An exasperated low-level investment banker is trapped in a magical realm by a faerie prince, where she must survive in a strange new world with only her wits—and a solid Wi-Fi connection.
The Calamities

By Chuck Wendig (Fic Wend)

The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama.
The Unicorn Hunters

By Katherine Arden (Fic Arde, eBook, eAudiobook)

In a desperate gamble to save her throne, a young monarch conceals a secret marriage in the shadows of an enchanted forest and unknowingly alters the fate of her world.
Seek the Traitor's Son

By Veronica Roth (Fic Roth, eBook, eAudiobook)

Elegy Ahn is summoned to hear a prophecy with the most ruthless of Talusar generals, Rava Vidar. Brought face to face, they learn that one of them will lead their people to victory over the other…but they don’t know which. And at the center of both of their fates: a man.
Startup Hell

By Caitlin Rozakis (Fic Roza, eAudiobook)

A hilarious contemporary fantasy about a junior sales witch stuck in corporate hell, who has to evade devilish pacts and her kickass, world-saving, demon-slaying mum to save a (surprisingly hot) demon, and work out how to hit her quarterly target.
The Fox Hunt

By Caitlin Breeze (Fic Bree)

Behind closed doors at England’s most ancient university, a circle of privileged students enter into a dark pagan ritual—one that holds tantalizing power and comes at a terrible price.
An Arcane Inheritance

By Kamilah Cole (Fic Cole, eBook, eAudiobook)

Warren University has long stood amongst the ivy elite, built on the bones—and forbidden magic—of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the rot of a secret society that will do anything to keep their own powers burning bright, no matter the cost to those lost along the way.