I love an intersection of historical fiction and mystery, two genres I love. Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements.

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, and fears feel real and true.

I loved this book. If you're in for a new character-driven, superhero-focused, smart, wicked, and action-packed book, this is it.

01 The Pull of the Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia, doctor, Kathleen, and a young volunteer,...

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.

The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.

The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.

I was frustrated by what felt like disjointed cause and effect and lack of clear motivation on the characters' parts.

This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks have power; hobgoblins...

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.

Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.

Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.

Sloane is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults.

Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others and a desire to develop its own sense of duty and sense of self.