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The Divine Invasion
The Divine Invasion (1981), Philip K. Dick's VALIS-trilogy novel (working title VALIS REGAINED), a science fiction nativity in which exiled God, Herb Asher, and Emmanuel confront Belial on Earth.
The Familiar (Bardugo novel)
The Familiar is Leigh Bardugo's 2024 Flatiron standalone historical fantasy set in Inquisition-era Madrid, following conversa scullion Luzia Cotado and the immortal Santángel in an occult competition after the 1588 Armada.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea is a 2020 cozy queer fantasy novel by TJ Klune (Tor Books), first of the Cerulean Chronicles, following caseworker Linus Baker at Marsyas Island Orphanage; Alex Award and Mythopoeic Award winner with sequel Somewhere Beyond the Sea.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is V.E. Schwab's 2020 Tor Books historical fantasy about Addie LaRue, cursed in 1714 with immortality and being forgotten, until Henry remembers her; NYT bestseller.
The Knight and the Moth
The Knight and the Moth is a 2025 gothic romantasy novel by Rachel Gillig (Orbit), first in the Stonewater Kingdom series, following Diviner Sybil Delling and knight Rodrick Myndacious in Traum; sequel The Knave and the Moon.
The Memory Police
The Memory Police (Hisoyaka na kessho, 密やかな結晶) is Yoko Ogawa's 1994 dystopian novel, translated by Stephen Snyder in 2019, about an island where objects and memories disappear and a secret police enforces the forgetting; NBA finalist 2019.
The River Has Roots
The River Has Roots is Amal El-Mohtar's 2025 Tordotcom fantasy novella, her solo debut, about sisters Esther and Ysabel tending magic willows on the River Liss; it won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Aurora Awards.
The Saint of Bright Doors
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera's 2023 Tordotcom debut novel, follows Fetter, a shadowless son raised to kill his saint father, the Perfect and Kind, in the city of Luriat; it won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a 2024 Hugo finalist.
The Scholomance Trilogy
The Scholomance Trilogy is Naomi Novik's dark magic-school fantasy series: A Deadly Education (2020), The Last Graduate (2021), and The Golden Enclaves (2022), following Galadriel "El" Higgins through a monster-filled school named for the Eastern European Scholomance legend.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is Sangu Mandanna's 2022 cozy fantasy romance (Berkley) about Mika Moon, a lonely witch hired to tutor three young witches at Nowhere House, finding found family and love with librarian Jamie Kelly.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is Ursula K. Le Guin's first short story collection (Harper & Row, 1975), gathering seventeen stories from 1962 to 1974 with author introductions, including the Hugo-winning "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and Nebula-winning "The Day Before the Revolution"; it won the 1976 Locus Award for Best Collection.
These Violent Delights
These Violent Delights is Chloe Gong's 2020 debut YA novel, a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1926 Shanghai, where gang heirs Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov unite against a monstrous contagion; its sequel is Our Violent Ends.
Wuxia (武侠)
Wuxia (武侠), literally "martial chivalry", is the Chinese genre of martial-arts hero fiction and film centered on the xia knight-errant and the jianghu world, spanning Tang tales, Republican novels, Jin Yong, and Shanghai-to-Hong Kong cinema.