Speculative Fiction

Updated March 17, 2025
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Al-Essa, Bothayna
Ebook
A Dragon of Black Glass
Rollins, James
Paper Book
The third and penultimate book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, A Dragon of Black Glass is a tale of relentless adventure and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. A Most...
Black woods, blue sky : a novel
Ivey, Eowyn
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? "No one writes like Eowyn Ivey."--Geraldine Brooks ...
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...
Dungeon crawler Carl
Dinniman, Matt
Audiobook
American rapture
Leede, CJ
Paper Book
The instant USA Today bestseller from CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly--a scorching and sweeping new novel about the end of the world as we know it. "A blistering, feverish ride through a uniquely American apocalypse."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times...
The Capital of Dreams
O'Neill, Heather
Paper Book
"The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistfully comic fable that's as imaginative as it is poignant. An entire world that only Heather O'Neill could create."--Iain Reid, bestselling author of We Spread and Foe From the hugely...
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
Audiobook
Witch of wild things
Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel
Paper Book
Sage Flores has been running from her family - and their 'gifts' - ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight years later, Sage reluctantly returns to her hometown. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate...
At the bottom of the garden : a novel
Bruce, Camilla
A murderess becomes the guardian of two very unusual girls in this mesmerizing gothic novel from acclaimed author Camilla Bruce. Clara Woods is a killer--and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of...
The Unworthy
Bazterrica, Agustina/ Moses, Sarah (TRN)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. ...
The new wilderness : a novel
Cook, Diane
Audiobook
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF FICTION OF 2020 NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020 BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE "THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES" --Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize Judge "A virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful...
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 *...
Memorials : a novel
Chizmar, Richard
Paper Book
The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia--an unforgettable, chilling novel that is "scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night" (Stephen King)....
Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel
VanderMeer, Jeff
Paper Book
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024: The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, TIME, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Goodreads The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series--and the final word on one of the...

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