fantasy

Lit Picks: 7 Haunting Spooky Season Reads

The following books don’t care if you survive. They tear through your head, leave you questioning what’s real and what isn’t, and they don’t let go. Fantasy hits with grit and blood, sci-fi scrambles your sense of everything, horror crawls under your skin and stays. You’ll find mirrors that lie,…

BookTribSeptember 11, 2025

Listicles

5 Fantasy Novels that Flirt with the Dark

I love a dark fantasy. But I’m not always primed for a DARK fantasy, especially not multiple ones back-to-back. I need some sunshine in my life (and in my books). My solution? Books that flirt with the dark without being completely steeped in it. The aesthetic, the story, the characters…

Charlie N. HolmbergAugust 25, 2025

Fiction

R.F. Kuang Descends Into Darkness With Dark Academia Masterpiece

The tagline for this book is Dante’s Inferno meets Piranesi and is that ever a fitting description. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang is a dark academia novel that takes you on a journey through the underworld. Through the Gates of Academia and Into Hell Alice Law is a postgraduate student studying…

Caleb ThomasAugust 26, 2025

Listicles

10 Books with Completely Unique Magic Systems

Nothing gets me more excited to read (or to write) than a unique, thought-provoking magic system. Magic is the granule that started the fantasy genre, in my opinion, and it’s the reason I picked up my first speculative novel — to be able to experience something new and different; something…

Charlie N. HolmbergJune 27, 2025

Listicles Young Adult

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

Sometimes you really just need to get out of your own life by getting into a book. A 600-page Russian drama? Not it. A thought-provoking nonfiction book that scares you into believing society truly is doomed? Not it. A cheery positivity book about gratitude? Overcompensating. What’s a reader to do?…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2022

Fiction Listicles

5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

To say families come in all shapes and sizes feels a bit cliché, even if it is true. Of course, if some of said family members happen to be aliens … well, I suppose that old cliché takes on new meaning, doesn’t it? Reptilian scales, wings, horns and many, many…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 8, 2022

Fiction Listicles

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

Observed over the past 1,000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has surpassed its origins as the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint to become a celebration of the Emerald Isle itself. And the festivities aren’t isolated to Ireland — far from it! St. Patrick’s Day hoopla can be found throughout the…

Cameron KimballMarch 17, 2022

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

I often think about this one episode of the 1998 TV series Charmed, “Once Upon a Time” (2000), in which the Halliwell sisters must protect a young girl who is being stalked by dark, mythical creatures that lurk in the “in-betweens,” points of time and space at which two worlds…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 22, 2022

Audiobooks Fiction Listicles

Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

Put down your doomscrolling device and voyage with me out of earth’s orbit to different realms in five new fantasy and science fiction novels. A mix of stand-alone and series titles, they offer powerhouse female characters and the ultimate escape. There’s nothing like a trip out of time or into…

Aurelia C. ScottMay 4, 2022

Listicles

Stories that Evoke the Nuance, Fear and Tenderness of Motherhood

When I had my daughter in 2014, it felt impossible to find literature that took motherhood both seriously and tenderly. I could find medical guides or how-to books on sleep training and funny quips about the exhaustion of early motherhood, but all of these books felt very far from the…

Amanda Parrish MorganOctober 20, 2022

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Killers, Secrets and Crimes from King, Baldacci and Turow

Jon LandNovember 3, 2022

Fiction

NYT Bestselling Author Nikki Erlick Explores Grief and Humanity in “The Poppy Fields”

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Erlick has a way of concocting the most implausible premises and making them sound plausible, compelling and thought-provoking. Take her debut novel, The Measure, an instant bestseller, in which everybody on earth opens their front doors on the same day to find a small…

Jim AlkonJune 10, 2025

Young Adult

YA Fantasy Debut “Celestial Banquet” Is a Veritable Feast for the Senses

Roselle Lim’s YA fantasy debut, Celestial Banquet, is a veritable feast for the senses. Centering around a hot-headed teen protagonist who aims to change her life and home through her cooking skills, it’s a thrilling exploration of family, love and home through a colorful culinary lens. Cooking for the Gods…

Kiersten BjorkJune 3, 2025

Fiction

Prepare to be Blown Away by this Culturally Rich, Asian-Inspired Fantasy Novella

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang is a classic tale of good vs evil following a gallant, mysterious Guildknight — celebrated as one of the most powerful dragon slayers in the kingdom — who is sent to a neighboring land as a likely precursor to war. There…

Caleb ThomasMay 19, 2025

Listicles

15+ Fantasy Books to Read for AANHPI Heritage Month

As a big fantasy reader and as someone with a deep interest in Japanese art, history and mythology — which began with the manga I consumed in bulk as a pre-teen — I was overjoyed to see more and more Asian-esque fantasy covers pop up across social media and litter…

Katie BloomerMay 16, 2024

Fiction

Danielle L. Jensen’s “A Curse Carved in Bone” Raises the Bar for Fantasy Sequels

Okay, I need to take a deep breath before jumping in because this book wrecked me (in the best way possible). A Curse Carved in Bone is book two in The Saga of the Unfated, and if you thought book one had you emotionally spiraling, just wait until you get…

Cemile AtarMay 14, 2025

Lit Picks: 7 Haunting Spooky Season Reads

5 Fantasy Novels that Flirt with the Dark

10 Books with Completely Unique Magic Systems

7 YA Fantasy Novels That Invent Captivating New Creatures

5 Unconventional Families Searching for Their Place the Universe

It’s Your Lucky Day! Discover 7 Fantasy Novels Inspired by Irish Legend

What Lurks Beyond: 6 Entrancing and Horrific Tales of Otherworldly Foes

Voyage Into 5 Fascinating Worlds With These SFF Audiobooks

Killers, Secrets and Crimes from King, Baldacci and Turow

15+ Fantasy Books to Read for AANHPI Heritage Month

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