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Anderson, Justin Lee – The Lost War (Eidyn #1)
Ashby, Madeline – Company Town
Bakis, Kirsten – King Nyx
Ball, Jesse – The Repeat Room
Bancroft, Josiah – Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel #1) ✪
Bancroft, Josiah – Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel #2) ✪
Bancroft, Josiah – The Hod King (The Books of Babel #3) ✪
Bancroft, Josiah – The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel #4)
Bancroft, Josiah – The Hexologists (The Hexologists #1)
Barger, Shaun – Mage Against the Machine
Barker, R.J. – The Bone Ships (The Tide Child #1) ✪
Barker, R.J. – Call of the Bone Ships (The Tide Child #2)
Barker, R.J. – The Bone Ship’s Wake (The Tide Child #3)
Barker, R.J. – Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken #1)
Bear, Elizabeth – The Stone in the Skull (Lotus Kingdoms #1)
Bear, Elizabeth – Ancestral Night (White Space #1)
Beauman, Ned – Venomous Lumpsucker
Beaton, E.J. – The Councillor (The Councillor #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – City of Blades (The Divine Cities #2)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – City of Miracles (The Divine Cities #3)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy #2)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson – A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
Bertino, Marie-Helene – Beautyland ✪
Bertino, Marie-Helene – Exit Zero: Stories
Bolander, Brooke – The Only Harmless Great Thing
Brennan, Marie – A Natural History of Dragons (Memoirs of Lady Trent #1)
Brown, Pierce – Iron Gold (Red Rising #4)
Bujold, Lois McMaster – The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods #1)
Bujold, Lois McMaster – Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga)
Burke, Sue – Semiosis (Semiosis #1)
Campbell, Cebo – Sky Full of Elephants
Carey, M.R. – The Girl with All the Gifts
Cargill, C. Robert – Sea of Rust
Carusso, Melissa – The Obsidian Tower (Rooks and Ruin #1)
Catrileo, Daniela – Chilco
Chakraborty, S.A. – The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1)
Chakraborty, S.A. – The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2)
Chakraborty, S.A. – The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy #3)
Chambers, Becky – A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1)
Chambers, Becky – A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot #2)
Chandrasekera, Vajra – The Saint of Bright Doors ✪
Chandrasekera, Vajra – Rakesfall
Chu, Wesley – The Art of Prophecy (The War Arts Saga #1)
Christie, Michael – Greenwood
Clark, P. Djèlí – A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Fatma el-Sha’arawi #1)
Clark, P. Djèlí – The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Fatma el-Sha’arawi #1)
Clarke, Susanna – Piranesi
Cole, Myke – The Armored Saint (The Sacred Throne #1)
Craddock, Curtis – An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms #1)
Crouch, Blake – Dark Matter ✪
Crouch, Blake – Recursion
Curtis, Grace – Floating Hotel
Davids, Nadia – Cape Fever
de Castell, Sebastien – Traitor’s Blade (Greatcoats #1)
Dickinson, Seth – Exordia
Duncan, Rod – The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #1)
Duncan, Rod – Unseemly Science (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #2)
Duncan, Rod – The Custodian of Marvels (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #3)
Duncan, Rod – The Queen of All Crows (The Map of Unknown Things #1)
Duncan, Rod – The Outlaw and the Upstart King (The Map of Unknown Things #2)
Duncan, Rod – The Fugitive & the Vanishing Man (The Map of Unknown Things #3)
Durbin, Frederic S. – A Green and Ancient Light ✪
Durbin, Frederic S. – The Country Under Heaven
Dyachenko, Marina & Sergey – Vita Nostra
Dyer, Thoraiya – Crossroads of Canopy (Titan’s Forest #1)
Eames, Nicholas – Kings of the Wyld (The Band #1)
El Akkad, Omar – American War
Evans, Erin M. – Empire of Exiles (Books of the Usurper #1)
Evenson, Brian – The Warren
Fletcher, C.A. – A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Friedman, C.S. – Nightborn: Coldfire Rising (Coldfire Trilogy #0)
Gabel, Aja – Lightbreakers
Gailey, Sarah – River of Teeth (River of Teeth #1)
Gray, Claudia – Master & Apprentice (Star Wars Canon)
Hanrahan, Gareth – The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy #1)
Hansen, Essa – Nophek Gloss (The Graven #1)
Harrow, Alix E. – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Herbert, Frank – Dune (Dune #1)
Hill, Joe – The Fireman
Hobb, Robin – Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy #2) ✪
Hobb, Robin – Assassin’s Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3)
Hobb, Robin – Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders #1)
Hobb, Robin – The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders #2)
Hobb, Robin – Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders #3)
Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Errand (Tawny Man #1)
Hobb, Robin – Golden Fool (Tawny Man #2) ✪
Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Fate (Tawny Man #3) ✪
Hobb, Robin – Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles #1)
Hobb, Robin – Dragon Haven (Rain Wild Chronicles #2)
Hobb, Robin – City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles #3)
Hobb, Robin – Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles #4)
Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Assassin (The Fitz & The Fool #1)
Hobb, Robin – Fool’s Quest (The Fitz & The Fool #2)
Hobb, Robin – Assassin’s Fate (The Fitz & The Fool #3) ✪
House, Silas – Lark Ascending
Howard, Scott Alexander – The Other Valley
Hur, Anton – Toward Eternity
Iglesias, Gabino – House of Bone and Rain
Jemisin, N.K. – The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Jemisin, N.K. – The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2)
Jemisin, N.K. – The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth #3)
Jimenez, Simon – The Vanished Birds ✪
Jimenez, Simon – The Spear Cuts Through Water ✪
Johnston, Michael – Soleri (Soleri #1)
Jordan, Robert – The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry #1)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry #2)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry #3)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – Tigana
Kay, Guy Gavriel – A Song for Arbonne ✪
Kay, Guy Gavriel – The Lions of Al-Rassan
Kay, Guy Gavriel – Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantium Mosaic #1)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – Lord of Emperors (Sarantium Mosaic #2)
Kay, Guy Gavriel – A Brightness Long Ago
Kay, Guy Gavriel – Written on the Dark
Kitagawa, Yasushi – The Lucky Ride
Klages, Ellen – Passing Strange
Klune, T.J. – The House in the Cerulean Sea ✪
Klune, T.J. – Under the Whispering Door
Klune, T.J. – In the Lives of Puppets
Kowal, Mary Robinette – The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1)
Kuang, R.F. – The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) ✪
Langmead, Oliver K. – Calypso
Lawrence, Mark – Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1)
Lee, Fonda – The Jade Setter of Janloon (The Green Bone Saga #0.5)
Lee, Fonda – Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1)
Lee, Fonda – Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) ✪
Lee, Fonda – Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga #3) ✪
Lee, Fonda – Untethered Sky
Lewis, Beth – The Wolf Road
Mastai, Elan – All Our Wrong Todays ✪
Mendelsund, Peter – Weepers
McGuire, Seanan – Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)
McGuire, Seanan – Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2)
McGuire, Seanan – Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3)
McGuire, Seanan – In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)
Michel, Lincoln – Metallic Realms
Miller, Sam J. – Blackfish City
Miller, Tom – The Philsopher’s Flight (The Philosophers #1) ✪
Min, Dolki – Walking Practice
Mitchell, David – The Bone Clocks ✪
McClellan, Brian – Promise of Blood (Powder Mage #1)
Mueller, Sara A. – The Bone Orchard
Murakami, Haruki – The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Murata, Sayaka – Vanishing World
Nagamatsu, Sequoia – How High We Go in the Dark
Nell, Richard – Kings of Paradise (Ash and Sand #1)
Neuvel, Sylvain – Waking Gods (The Themis Files #2)
Neuvel, Sylvain – Only Human (The Themis Files #3)
Neuvel, Sylvain – The Test
Newman, Emma – After Atlas (Planetfall #2) ✪
Newman, Emma – Before Mars (Planetfall #3)
Newman, Emma – Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4)
Newman, Emma – Brother’s Ruin (Industrial Magic #1)
Newman, Emma – Weaver’s Lament (Industrial Magic #2)
Nguyen, Lena – We Have Always Been Here
Niedekker, Donald – Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Nieva, Michel – Dengue Boy
North, Claire – Notes from the Burning Age
North, Claire – Slow Gods
North, Emet – In Universes
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies – Lost Ark Dreaming
O’Keefe, Megan E. – The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds #1)
O’Malley, Daniel – The Rook (The Checquy Files #1)
Onyebuchi, Tochi – Riot Baby
Packer, George – The Emergency
Palmer, Ada – Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota #1)
Palmgren, Tristan – Quietus (The Unity #1)
Park, Ed – Same Bed Different Dreams ✪
Park, Ed – An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories
Parker, K.J. – Prosper’s Demon
Powers, Richard – Playground
Pullman, Philip – La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1)
Pulley, Natasha – The Half Life of Valery K
Qudan, Rie – Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Redick, Robert V.S. – Master Assassins (The Fire Sacraments #1)
Roanhorse, Rebecca – Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) ✪
Roanhorse, Rebecca – Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky #2)
Robson, Kelly – Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
Rountree, Josh – The Legend of Charlie Fish
Rowland, Alexandra – A Conspiracy of Truths (Conspiracy of Truths #1)
Rowland, Alexandra – A Choir of Lies (Conspiracy of Truths #2)
Ryan, Anthony – The Waking Fire (The Draconis Memoria #1)
Ryan, Anthony – The Legion of Flame (The Draconis Memoria #2)
Russell, Karen – The Antidote
Saintcrow, Lilith – Afterwar
Sanderson, Brandon – The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1)
Sanderson, Brandon – Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
Sanderson, Brandon – Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3)
Sanderson, Brandon – Arcanum Unbounded (Cosmere)
Saunders, George – Lincoln in the Bardo
Schwab, V.E. – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Shel, Mike – Aching God (Iconoclasts #1)
Shel, Mike – Sin Eater (Iconoclasts #2)
Shel, Mike – Idols Fall (Iconoclasts #3)
Skrutskie, Emily – Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy #1)
Smith, Alexis – Marrow Island
Soule, Charles – Light of the Jedi (Star War Canon: The High Republic)
Stålenhag, Simon – Tales from the Loop
Stålenhag, Simon – Sunset at Zero Point
Starling, Caitlin – The Luminous Dead
St. John Mandel, Emily – Sea of Tranquility
Staveley, Brian – The Emperor’s Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #1)
Staveley, Brian – The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #2)
Steele, Allen – Avengers of the Moon
Sterling, Michelle Min – Camp Zero
Sullivan, Michael J. – Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire #1)
Sullivan, Michael J. – Age of Swords (The Legends of the First Empire #2)
Sullivan, Michael J. – The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations #1)
Sullivan, Michael J. – Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations #2)
Sullivan, Michael J. – Nyphron Rising (The Riyria Revelations #3)
Sullivan, Michael J. – The Emerald Storm (The Riyria Revelations #4)
Sullivan, Michael J. – Wintertide (The Riyria Revelations #1)
Sullivan, Michael J. – Percepliquis (The Riyria Revelations #2)
Swan, Richard – The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf #1)
Tesh, Emily – Silver in the Wood
Tchaikovsky, Adrian – Children of Time ✪
Tchaikovsky, Adrian – Elder Race
Thien, Madeleine – The Book of Records
Thompson, Tage – Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy #1)
Tidhar, Lavie – Unholy Land ✪
Tidhar, Lavie – Neom
Tidhar, Lavie – The Circumference of the World
Tingle, Chuck – Lucky Day
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1)
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2)
Tregillis, Ian – Come the Revolution (The Alchemy Wars #0)
Tregillis, Ian – The Mechanical (The Alchemy Wars #1) ✪
Tregillis, Ian – The Liberation (The Alchemy Wars #3) ✪
Urbanski, Debbie – After World: A Novel
Urbanski, Debbie – Portalmania: Stories
VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) ✪
VanderMeer, Jeff – Authority (Southern Reach #2)
VanderMeer, Jeff – Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
VanderMeer, Jeff – Borne (Borne #1)
VanderMeer, Jeff – The Strange Bird (Borne #1.5) ✪
VanderMeer, Jeff – Dead Astronauts (Borne #2)
Vaughn, Carrie – Bannerless (The Bannerless Saga #1)
Vo, Nghi – Siren Queen
Weeks, Brent – The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1)
Weeks, Brent – The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer #2)
Weldon, Glen – The Caped Crusade
Wells, Martha – All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1)
Wells, Martha – Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2)
Wells, Martha – Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)
Wells, Martha – Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4)
Wells, Martha – Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5)
Wells, Martha – Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6)
Weir, Andy – Artemis
Wexler, Django – The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns #1)
Williams, Phillip B. – Ours ✪
Williams, Tad – The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #1)
Williams, Tad – Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #2)
Williams, Tad – To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #3)
Williams, Tad – The Heart of What Was Lost (Osten Ard Saga)
Williams, Tad – Brothers of the Wind (Osten Ard Saga)
Williams, Tad – The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard #1)
Williams, Tad – Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard #2)
Yuszczuk, Marina – Thirst
Zahn, Timothy – Thrawn (Thrawn #1; Star Wars Canon)
Zahn, Timothy – Thrawn: Alliances (Thrawn #2; Star Wars Canon)
Zahn, Timothy – Thrawn: Treason (Thrawn #3; Star Wars Canon)
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