I loved the dark academia setting, Sciona's bid to become the first female in the High Magistry, and her rethinking of long-held...

I was hooked on the story of a team of young women fighting for admittance to a guild, their bonds, and their adventures. But the...

ICYMI: This series by Naomi Novik introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully faulted handlers, and...

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, delve into never-before-revealed...

Fairy Tales and Retellings For this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts; characters living...

I felt like the story started off slowly, but once the world was built and the background established, I was hooked on the interpersonal...

The first in Jensen's fantasy series ticked many of my boxes--strong female main character, a tension-filled Chosen One premise, a fight...

Sarah Rees Brennan offers a funny, dark, clever story within a story in which the heroes and villains are redefined, redemption is always...

A leviathan lurks in the ocean, threatening destruction on a grand scale, while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart...

The first installment in Faizal's Blood and Tea series offers intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming...

Six Great Bossy Fantasy Reads I knew I was reading some gooood science fiction and fantasy, but didn't realize I'd read and loved enough...

Schwab returns to the world of the four Londons in the first of a wonderfully paced new series featuring established characters, their...

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

Dowry of Blood is a shadowy, spooky, sultry story imagining Dracula's wife Constanta and their relationship, in which he exerts control...

In this return to the world of Elfhame (Folk of the Air trilogy), Holly Black takes us deeper into the story of characters Wren and Oak...

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy...

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her strategic swearing, her strength,...

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the...

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E. Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of...