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Asian-Inspired Fantasy With More Than a Decorative Setting
Asian-Inspired Fantasy With More Than a Decorative Setting
by book_guy  • 
8 in common: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, The Stardust Thief and 6 more
A convincing fantasy world gives people more than striking scenery to move through. These 25 books make family obligations, religious ideas, political institutions, everyday practices or the...
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Historical Fantasy Where the Past Shapes the Magic
Historical Fantasy Where the Past Shapes the Magic
by book_guy  • 
4 in common: Gods of Jade and Shadow, The bird king [large print] and 2 more
The most convincing historical fantasy lets the past set the terms of the impossible. A spirit must find work in an immigrant city; a mapmaker's gift becomes dangerous to a ruler; a ghost...
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Urban Fantasy With Cities You Can Almost Walk Through
Urban Fantasy With Cities You Can Almost Walk Through
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Black Water Sister, The ghost bride and 1 more
A good fantasy city has more than a recognisable skyline: someone has to work a shift, cross a boundary, find a room and get home. These 25 books make those routes matter. London’s hidden...
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Retellings That Give Familiar Stories a New Argument
Retellings That Give Familiar Stories a New Argument
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Kaikeyi and The Palace of Illusions
A retelling becomes interesting when changing the viewpoint changes what a familiar story means. These books dispute heroic reputations, follow people treated as prizes or obstacles, and give...
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African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Skin of the Sea and Akata witch
Lagos can be full of fallen gods, Mombasa can open onto a sea of monsters, and an invented empire can build its power by deciding which histories may be told. This selection follows African...
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Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
Fantasy Where Religion Is More Than a Sinister Priesthood
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: The bird king [large print] and Golem and the Jinni
Belief can shape how someone buries a stranger, listens to a neighbour or understands an obligation, long before it becomes a struggle for a throne. These fantasies take those smaller acts...
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Dark Fantasy With More to Offer Than Relentless Misery
Dark Fantasy With More to Offer Than Relentless Misery
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Devourers
A dangerous world needs something worth noticing inside it: a friendship, a filthy joke, an astonishing creature, or a choice that still matters. These books earn their darkness through different...
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Fantasy With Ingenious Magic Systems
Fantasy With Ingenious Magic Systems
by book_guy  • 
In common: Akata witch
A good magical rule gives a character something to work with and something to work around. These 25 novels and novellas make that pleasure part of the reading: precise commands, limited materials...
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Political Fantasy Where Decisions Have Lasting Consequences
Political Fantasy Where Decisions Have Lasting Consequences
by book_guy  • 
In common: The City of Brass
A political fantasy becomes convincing when a decision changes what other people can do: who may practise magic, which interests a government protects, whose labour supports an empire, or what an...
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Romantic Fantasy Where Both the Romance and the Fantasy Matter
Romantic Fantasy Where Both the Romance and the Fantasy Matter
by book_guy  • 
In common: Daughter of the Moon Goddess
These books make attraction part of the way a fantasy world works: a political marriage, a dangerous magical secret, a shared investigation or a disagreement about who deserves power. Start with...
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Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
The order in which we learn about a life can change what we think happened. These novels use returns, reversals, competing recollections or literal jumps through time to make that difference felt...
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Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
People do not stop being funny when life becomes difficult. Their habits, awkward conversations and attempts to keep things going can become more revealing under pressure. These 25 novels earn...
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Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
Fantasy About Craft, Trade and Making a Living
by book_guy  • 
In common: Golem and the Jinni
These fantasies pay attention to what people can make, repair, sell or provide, and to the lives those activities support. Start with The Magic of Recluce for patient craft training, Legends...
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Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
by book_guy  • 
In common: Golem and the Jinni
A whole weekend with one book is a chance to settle into another place, rather than simply finish a large number of pages. These novels offer an inhabited world, a reason to keep turning the pages...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
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Science Fiction for Readers Who Usually Prefer Realism
Science Fiction for Readers Who Usually Prefer Realism
by book_guy  • 
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If you usually choose novels for their people, social observation or moral tensions, these books offer several ways into science fiction. Start with Never Let Me Go for an intimate voice, Station...
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Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
by book_guy  • 
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The best comic futures have rules, even when those rules are appalling. These books make joke and invention work together: copyright can bankrupt a universe in Year Zero, obsolete heroes need new...
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