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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. Holmberg
June 27, 2025
FictionRecommended

Where Grief Opens a Door

Donald Samson opens The Yonder with Coleridge's meditation on a dream so vivid its flower survives into waking life, and from that first page the book asks the same question of its reader: what would you risk to bring something real back from somewhere impossible? The premise is deceptively simple.…
BookTrib
August 20, 2026
FictionRecommended

Finding Hope in a World of Exile

The Realm of Ruin by Carson Zan Hughes begins as a classic exile-and-survival fantasy and gradually unfolds into a story about identity, belonging, trauma and what it means to rebuild a life after everything has been stripped away.
BookTrib
June 26, 2026
FictionMiscellany

Fantasy or How History Should Have Been?

The appeal of fantasy for a woman in a male-dominated world is — in a word — obvious. That aside, my love affair with fantasy started as a small child because something deep and powerful in my core has always called out to the existence of dragons, fairies and magic.…
Meghan Le Fay
May 26, 2026
BookTribListicles

Inconceivable! The Literary Legacy of The Princess Bride

Good writing can take us to places we’ve never considered. Great writing becomes part of our cultural DNA. One of the most beloved novel-to-movie adaptations of all time, The Princess Bride, is just such a piece of writing. In the hands of the late, great director Rob Reiner it has…
BookTrib
December 22, 2025