Speculative Fiction

Updated May 29, 2025
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The book censor's library
Al-Essa, Bothayna
Paper Book
FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024 A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government...
The illegal : a novel
Hill, Lawrence
Paper Book
Lawrence Hill spellbound readers with Someone Knows My Name (made into the television mini-series, The Book of Negroes), hailed as "transporting" (Entertainment Weekly) and "completely engrossing" (Washington Post). The Illegal is the gripping story of Keita Ali, a refugee--like the many in today...
Survivor song : a novel
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. "Absolutely riveting." -- Stephen King In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by...
Death Valley : a novel
Broder, Melissa
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed...
The other valley : a novel
Howard, Scott Alexander
Paper Book
*Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this "mind-bending take on time travel" (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and...
The future
Leroux, Catherine
Paper Book
Winner of Canada Reads 2024 * Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award * Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction * One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 * Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 * One of Kirkus...
The white hare
Johnson, Jane
Paper Book
For fans of Alice Hoffman and Kate Morton, The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives. In the far west of Cornwall lies the White...
Witch of wild things
Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! One of Amazon's Best Romances of September! A People Magazine Romantasy Pick! Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of...
Las indignas
Bazterrica, Agustina María
Paper Book
La nueva novela de la aclamada autora de Cadáver exquisito, premio Clarín de Novela y un fenómeno mundial con más de 200.000 lectores en una treintena de países. «Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva». El mundo como lo...
Followed by the lark
Humphreys, Helen
Paper Book
"A luscious novel . . . [Helen] Humphreys offers a fresh view of a philosopher thought of as a loner, depicting his family home as a place for communion and companionship . . . This is Thoreau as he really lived." --Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic A novel as wise...
The new wilderness : a novel
Cook, Diane
Paper Book
A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year * Shortlisted for the Booker Prize "More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced -- a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really...
Old king : a novel
Loskutoff, Maxim
Paper Book
In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road near a reclusive neighbor--a hermit named Ted Kaczynski. The two men are captivated by the valley...
Sundial
Ward, Catriona
Paper Book
"DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying." --Stephen King WINNER of Best Hardcover Novel at the ITW Thriller Awards * Finalist for the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards * Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel *...

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