Fantasy

Lark and the Wild Hunt / Jennifer Adam

When her brother disappears into the Fae realm, twelve-year-old Lark must try to save him by solving riddles, fixing an ancient clock, and trusting her new Fae friend, Rook.

Children of blood and bone / Tomi Adeyemi

Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother, Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.

House of Hollow / Krystal Sutherland

Iris, Grey and Vivi Hollow are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month later with no memory of what happened to them eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. Ten years later when Grey goes missing, Iris and Vivi must unravel the past to find her.

Beyond the ruby veil / Mara Fitzgerald

After Emanuela Ragno kills the one person in Occhia who can create water, she must find a way to save her city from dying of thirst.

A wilderness of stars / Shea Ernshaw

An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.

The gilded ones / Namina Forna

Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. On the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity, and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.

Bright ruined things / Samantha Cohoe

Growing up on an island where the powerful Prosper family controls both the magic and the spirits who inhibit it, eighteen-year-old Mae longs for magic of her own to impress her best friend Coco and her crush Miles. When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae and her friends start to unravel the mysteries of the island and a secret from Mae's past.

Children of Ragnarok / Cinda Williams Chima

Desperate to escape her demon master, runecaster Reggin Eiklund flees to the Grove, while Eiric Halvorsen, falsely accused of murdering his modir and stepfadir, journeys to the Grove at the behest of a powerful jarl interested in restoring magic to the world.

The betrothed / Kiera Cass

When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked--and thrilled. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true, but Hollis soon realizes falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be.

Silver in the bone / Alexandra Bracken

Tamsin Lark goes on a quest to find the infamous ring from Arthurian legend to break her brother's curse.

Blood debts / Terry J. Benton-Walker

Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans's magic and non-magic communities and find out who cursed their mother.

The cruel prince / Holly Black

Jude was stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality, but many of the fey despise humans, especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

The stars of Mount Quixx / S.M. Beiko

Sent away for the summer, Constance and Ivory Ivyweather, were promised a vacation but the sisters aren't sure what to make of the town of Quixx and its creeping fog that never seems to lift.

Blood and moonlight / Erin Beaty

Rising above the city of Collis is the Holy Sanctum. And watching over its spires is Catrin, an orphan girl with unique skills—for she alone can spot the building’s flaws in construction before they turn deadly. But when Catrin witnesses a murderer escaping the scene of his crime, she’s pulled into a dangerous chain of events where the only certainty is that the killer will strike again.

Shadow and bone / Leigh Bardugo

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegée of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

Blade breaker / Victoria Aveyard

Dom, a grieving immortal, Sorasa, an outcast assassin, Valtik, an old sorceress, and Corayne, a pirate's daughter, must assemble an army to face Queen Erida and Taristan's wicked forces.

Nightbirds / Kate J. Armstrong

In Simta, the magic of women is outlawed but four girls with unusual powers have the chance to change it all.

Before takeoff / Adi Alsaid

James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover and both are drawn to a mysterious flashing green light - and each other. They discover that the flashing green light is actually a button, which Michelle presses. Before they can figure up from down, snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles sprout up in the C terminal; and earthquakes split the ground apart in between.

In every generation / Kendare Blake

This brand-new story set in the beloved Buffy-verse follows the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers as they come together to conquer a new evil on the rise.

The Carrefour curse / Dianne K. Salerni

When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours.

The bones of ruin / Sarah Raughley

An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is.

Revelle / Lyssa Mia Smith

With Prohibition threatening their livelihood, Luxe Revelle, the star of her family's fantastical show, agrees to pose as the girlfriend of the son of Charmant's wealthiest family and finds herself playing a dangerous game when she meets the boy who is her destiny.

Before we disappear / Shaun David Hutchinson

Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1909 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

The chaos of stars / Kiersten White

Sixteen-year-old Isadora, the mortal daughter of Isis and Osiris, is sick of being in the middle of family drama so she jumps at the chance to leave Egypt and start a new life in San Diego with her brother.

Jade fire gold / June C.L. Tan

Ahn is no one, with no past and no family. Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child. When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaiming the throne. Ahn sees a way to finally unlock her past and understand her lethal magical abilities. But they may have to pay a far deadlier price than either could have imagined.

The Ivory Key / Akshaya Raman

Vira, Ronak, Kaleb, and Riya are siblings, but they are pretty distant from one another, living separate lives. But one thing finally unites them: the search for the Ivory Key, a legendary item that will provide a new source of magic.

This woven kingdom / Tahereh Mafi

To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world.

The buried and the bound / Rochelle Hassan

Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown.

In Nightfall / Suzanne Young

Soon after arriving in the tiny tourist town of Nightfall, Oregon, siblings Theo and Marco break their grandmother's rule not to leave the house after dark and befriend a mysterious group of beguiling girls who are far from what they seem.

Divine rivals / Rebecca Ross

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again… All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

All that glitters / Gita Trelease

After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.

Horrid / Katrina Leno

Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.

The sun and the star / Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro

Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld as they attempt to rescue an old friend.

Fireborne / Rosaria Munda.

Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power.

Night of the raven, dawn of the dove / Rati Mehrotra

After a bloody palace uprising, Katyani, a young guardswoman to the royal family, discovers she is not who she thought she was and becomes a major pawn in the political games of a monster-filled land on the brink of war.

Rebel of fire and flight / Aneesa Marufu

Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic that threatens their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.

The memory eater / Rebecca Mahoney

Seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow must save her town from a memory-devouring monster.

The bone houses / Emily Lloyd-Jones

When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever.

Unraveller / Frances Hardinge

Fifteen-year-old Kellen's unique ability to unravel curses unfortunately does not protect him from becoming cursed, and unless he and his best friend and ally Nettle can remove his hex, Kellen is in danger of unravelling everything--and everyone--around him.

Curses / Lish McBride

Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday.

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