Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food--the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around--for the humans of...
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
An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! Return to the fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern Fern has weathered the stillness...
The shattering peace
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Multiple New York Times bestseller John Scalzi brings us a fast-paced adventure set in the far-future.The Shattering Peace is a much-anticipated return to Scalzi's beloved Old Man's War universe. As peace turns to war, a galaxy prepares to fight. . . For a decade, peace...
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...
Platform Decay
Wells, Martha.
Paper Book
PLATFORM DECAY is a New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad...
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
The everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author An Award-Winning Author Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion's greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children's books and recruiting posters --...
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...
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...
Slow gods
North, Claire
Paper Book
'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time From the million-copy-bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - comes an intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and the...
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...
Agnes Aubert's mystical cat shelter
Fawcett, Heather
Paper Book
Alchemised
SenLinYu
Paper Book
\"What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left for you to save.\" Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner-of war and of her own mind. Her...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The potency of ungovernable impulses
Older, Malka
Paper Book
The next entry in the multi-award-nominated cozy space-opera mystery series The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti! When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin--who's up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been...
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...
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...
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...
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 enchanted greenhouse
Durst, Sarah Beth
Paper Book
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The summer war
Novik, Naomi.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST * 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...
The Faith of Beasts: Book Two of The Captive's War
Corey, James S. A
Paper Book
The strength of the few
Islington, James
Paper Book
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 everything-and now, impossibly, the ancient...
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 incandescent
Tesh, Emily
Paper Book
'A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth . . . an unmissable read' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne 'Fans of Naomi Novik's Scholomance series won't want to miss this' Publishers Weekly ***Shortlisted for the...
Children of strife
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
The unmissable next installment of the highly acclaimed Children of Time series from award-winning sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky. Long ago, towards the end of humanity's first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of...
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...
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...
The red winter
Sullivan, Cameron
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! DELUXE EDITION--the hardcover edition of The Red Winter features beautiful red sprayed edges! A LibraryReads Pick! An Indie Next Pick! A devastating love...
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...
Radiant Star
Leckie, Ann.
Paper Book
The poet empress
Tao, Shen, (Fiction writer)
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<...
Lightbreakers: 'Compassionate and prismatic . . . my favourite kind of novel' (Chloe Benjamin, author of THE IMMORTALISTS)
Gabel, Aja.
Paper Book
'Audaciously tackles life's most formative experiences: love and loss' RUMAAN ALAM, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind 'Like walking down a hall of mirrors . . . Lightbreakers made me see things anew' LING MA,...
Written on the dark
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2025 Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France Thierry Villar is a well-known--even notorious-- tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and...
Jitterbug
L. Powell, Gareth.
Paper Book
"On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw." Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier,...
A mouthful of dust
Vo, Nghi
Paper Book
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. "Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High Hill Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river...
Exiles
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
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