Fantasy and Science Fiction

Discover recent releases in fantasy and science fiction, from space operas and apocalyptic worlds to dragons and magic!
Updated April 13, 2026
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Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. An instant USA Today and indie bestseller! Indie Next pick | Library Reads pick | Best of the Year at...
Katabasis : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
Brigands & breadknives
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
Return to the cosy fantasy world of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree, a freshly baked adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern.Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's...
Hemlock & silver
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver is a dark reimagining of Snow White steeped in poison, intrigue and treason of the most magical kind.'A new favourite! Masterful storytelling with creepy magic, and a fantastic cat!'- Sarah Beth Durst,...
The shattering peace
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Peace is an illusion . . .After a decade, acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Man's War series with the long-awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace.For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. An agreement between...
Operation bounce house
Dinniman, Matt
Paper Book
A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to...
The devils
Abercrombie, Joe
Paper Book
Platform Decay
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. Ugh.This may well call for... eye contact!...
Stone & sky
Aaronovitch, Ben
Paper Book
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one...
Slow Gods
North, Claire
Paper Book
Agnes Aubert's mystical cat shelter
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Paper Book
'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate 'A hugely entertaining, super smart, witty novel that is also nerve-shreddingly terrifying... a timely book that is also one for the ages.' Antonia Hodgson, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Raven...
Twelve months
Butcher, Jim
Paper Book
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day - but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself? One year. 365 days. Twelve months. Harry Dresden has been...
Nobody's Baby
Waite, Olivia.
Paper Book
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are...
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
After the fall
Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer)
Paper Book
Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets? Humans must...
Alchemised
SenLinYu
Paper Book
***THE RECORD-BREAKING DEBUT AND INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** A stunning collector's edition and the perfect book for any dark fantasy lover. 'A work of quite staggering ambition. Detailed world-building, intricate plot, Gothic...
Snake-eater
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt's house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. Selena loves the strange beauty of the desert. But the people of Quartz Creek share their town with others, old...
Hell's Heart
Hall, Alexis J.
Paper Book
Hell's Heart is a queer speculative fiction retelling of Herman Melville's classic story.Here, a small party go hunting for a giant space creature - and experience love and loss along the way.Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars....
Day Zero
Cargill, C Robert.
Paper Book
In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure--from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust--noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world. It was...
Through gates of garnet and gold
McGuire, Seanan
Paper Book
A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Selection! A fan-favorite character returns in this action-packed installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West's...
Queen demon
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
Dahin believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something Dahin isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, where all the evidence leads. Can Kai stop the rise of a...
The raven scholar
Hodgson, Antonia
Paper Book
The Sunday Times bestseller from an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar's quest to uncover the truth. 'IT'S THRILLING, ROMANTIC, OFTEN TRAGIC, AND ALWAYS FUNNY'...
The Iron Garden Sutra
Sui, A. D.
Paper Book
Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes's Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui's darkly philosophical, locked room murder mystery, as a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of...
Among the burning flowers
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree. Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and...
Hole in the Sky: A Novel
Wilson, Daniel H.
Paper Book
A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse "Thrilling and personal... an important addition to the landscape of science fiction."-Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
A witch's guide to magical innkeeping
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! * A whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers--and her life--back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sera Swan...
Infinite archive
Lafferty, Mur
Paper Book
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it. Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting...
The enchanted greenhouse
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
TRN
What we can know : a novel
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be...
The summer war
Novik, Naomi.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell. ...
Children of strife
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
Long ago, towards the end of humanity's first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of irascible genius Avrana Kern. But Kern had rivals, and a team of self-proclaimed innovators took one world from her remit and devoted themselves to reshaping it into...
Overgrowth
Grant, Mira
Paper Book
Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human...
The strength of the few
Islington, James
Paper Book
The New York TimesNo. 1 bestseller The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened--with what I fear is coming--I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost...
The incandescent
Tesh, Emily
Paper Book
''A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth. Warm-hearted, terrifying and clever . . . an unmissable read' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne A Deadly Education meets Rivers of London in this captivating...
The Forest on the Edge of Time
Kirkbride, Jasmin.
Paper Book
The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction. Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time to...
The red winter
Sullivan, Cameron
Paper Book
A bewitching historical fantasy from a debut author, and the next global sensation from Tor. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power and redemption.A devastating love story.A bewitching twist on history.A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.<...
The poet empress
Tao, Shen, (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK* 'An impressive debut with real psychological depth' THE GUARDIAN 'Richly imagined and politically driven' THE I PAPER 'In a class of its...
Exiles
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
Apparently, Sir Cameron needs to die
Stothers, Greer
Paper Book
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER. DELUXE EDITION WITH STENCILED EDGES, SPOT GLOSS AND GOLD FOIL. In this hilarious gay fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together. Funny, touching and inventive, this...
The knight and the moth
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
'Dreamy prose, characters so vibrant they breathe on the page, a romance that smoulders, and a spellbinding world to get lost in. Prepare to meet your next obsession' Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals ***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*** ...
The Faith of Beasts: Book Two of The Captive's War
Corey, James S. A
Paper Book
Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore: A charming, must-read 2025 cosy fantasy romance debut with grumpy/sunshine vibes, small-town magic, and heartwarming second chances
Krempholtz, Emily.
Paper Book
''Charming . . . A romance that, gently and pleasantly, asks questions about power and its uses.'' The New York Times ''I have rarely read a book so charming...Violet Thistlewaite might not be a villain anymore, but she''s definitely stolen my heart.'' Ashley Poston<...
Outlaw Planet
Carey, M. R.
Paper Book
The folded sky
Bear, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Dr. Sunya Song embarks on an interstellar journey across the Milky Way to connect with the artificial intelligence known as Baomind, a moon-sized entity that holds the key to humanity's survival amidst cosmic challenges and unforeseen threats in Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear's next...
The Astral Library
Quinn, Kate.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures...

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