Featured fantasy picks

Brother Diaz arrives in the Sacred City expecting honor but instead must lead a congregation of killers and sorcerers on a brutal mission, navigating monstrous threats, political treachery and a perilous path where righteousness and damnation are disturbingly intertwined.

Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.

An immortal, grumpy ghost hunter cursed to wander eternally outlives everyone he loves. When he takes a job as a cemetery groundskeeper to banish a vengeful spirit, he unexpectedly finds a found family and a reason to live. 

A cynical Ratkin bookseller deals with midlife existential dread and moves to the city of Thune. After a drunken night, she stows away on a wagon with an elven bounty hunter and a chaos goblin, embarking on a transformative road trip. 

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes and blows storms of hamburgers - until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, but one very tall, annoyingly handsome person-- Hugh Balfour-- is standing in her way.

In the final days of Pompeii, two boys-- Felix and Loren-- must grapple with closely-guarded secrets and untangle myth, magic and memory to escape the burning city alive.

Set in London during World War II, a 12-year-old orphan who accidentally unleashes a shadow monster must team up with unlikely allies to hunt it down.

Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After he and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago, everything is different.

A kidnapped Nahua girl, enslaved and thrust into the heart of Spanish conquest, uses her wit, magic and resilience to carve her own destiny and rewrite her legacy as both traitor and goddess amidst a clash of empires.

Meet an unlikely fairy and his new best friend in this laugh-out-loud picture book about acceptance, being yourself and standing up to anyone who tries to diminish your sparkle.

A healer, Hazel, a 13th child promised to one of the gods, discovers all gifts come with a price as she is forced to work with Death. When she meets a rakish prince marked to die, she must choose between her heart and Death itself.

Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a small owl that has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris make the good and noble choice and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies?

Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world-- or just get to the next level-- in a videogame-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.

When Evander, a reclusive boy, inherits his guardian's estate-- which includes a sentient, carnivorous garden-- he must find out who killed his guardian before they come for him next.

Teenage Somadina searches for her missing twin brother, Jayaike, in the Sacred Forest, while learning to navigate her frightening new magical ability.

A collection of horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters-- both human and supernatural-- face down death and survive.

In the late 1980s, a coven of queer witches on New York's Fire Island strives to protect a young man facing a devastating tragedy.

A prophetess is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight.

Blending magic and science, a talented arcane engineer at NASA investigates two separate murder mysteries while balancing her career and raising two younger sisters.

Set in 16th century Korea, this queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology follows Kai Song, who is determined to be a warrior as she must come to terms with her true identity and take control of her destiny after learning a deadly secret.

After pulling a sword from a quicksilver pool, Saeris Fane is transported to the Fae realm of Yvelia where she discovers her alchemical abilities and connection to a brooding Fae warrior, and gets embroiled in the long-standing war between the Fae and vampires.

An undead fox serving as the Usher of Souls has his life upended when a mysterious badger soul appears.

Nineteen-year-old Annie, heir to the Fairfax Whaling Company, navigates a treacherous voyage, a scheming fiancé, ancient sea fae and a growing bond with a half-finfolk captain as she races to break a deadly curse and protect her family's legacy.

12-year-old Lu travels across a world of gigantic, living animal-landscapes to find her missing grandmother. Joined by her friend, Lu follows her grandmother's journal, uncovering family secrets, exploring breathtaking creatures and learning to understand her heritage.

Vis grapples with a dangerous secret that could change the course of history across alternate dimensions, in this follow-up to 2023's The Will of the Many.

Birdie has big plans for eighth grade, including getting a boyfriend, but after her best friend Deve fights against it, the trickster West African god Anansi appears and grants Birdie's wish, which she soon regrets and tries to undo.

Eleven-year-old Lebanese American Bashir discovers a ring containing a jinn. When a demon lord kidnaps his parents, Bashir joins a secret society to stop the demon, traveling across Arab cities to find the legendary Jewel of the Nile.

Graduate students Alice and Peter must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul: perhaps at the cost of their own.

Shunned by his soldiers, haunted by past tragedies, Sargent Holt Hawley is a broken man. But the child of a powerful ally has gone missing, and war is on the horizon.

Two teen girls from colliding parallel universes meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.

While in Egypt for her uncle's wedding, Sahara Rashad, who lives by logic and has never believed in magic, embarks on an adventure of a lifetime when her late mother's necklace leads her to Ali Baba's magical treasure and the discovery of her true legacy.

Jenna Chen has spent her life in her flawless cousin's shadow. When a desperate wish to become Jessica comes true, Jenna suddenly gets to live the life she's dreamed of.

In the warm, late afternoon sunlight, a girl sits on the couch reading a book. Her kitten dozes nearby. But when Kitten notices a mouse and dives after it through a framed poster on the wall, an epic chase through time, art, and history ensues.

Dragged to a magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor, Tamlin, is a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him grow, so do the threats against the faerie lands. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever.

A disillusioned Italian World War 1 flying ace is living with a curse that turns him into a pig. He now works as a bounty hunter facing sky pirates and a brash American rival.

In this sequel to Strange Beasts, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, and Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the famed criminal mastermind, are sent to investigate mysterious disappearances in Ireland.

It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but Tien doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?

At night, Lola de La Peña becomes the masked vigilante Salvación to protect her family and town from a man wielding deadly magic, but her mission is complicated when she begins falling for Alejandro, a member of his dangerous entourage.

Following the death of her mother, 11-year-old Anne discovers she has a twin brother, so she journeys to an enchanted world to find him and meets monsters and other villains while learning to lean into magic and her Jewish faith.

When Mal barges into his life, along with a baby griffin, demanding his help, Christopher embarks on an adventure of a lifetime with this fierce girl to save the Archipelago, a hidden world where magical creatures have thrived for thousands of years.

Teenager Willow Stokes gets by selling fraudulent charms and magical items at her father's shoppe, but when outlander Bri unintentionally turns her fake wares real, the girls' paths intertwine as they join forces to search for a missing grimoire to break Bri's curse.

Alchemist Helena Marino, a prisoner with amnesia, fights to survive in a necromancy-ridden world as the ruthless High Reeve attempts to unearth the vital secrets hidden within her missing memories.

Young witch Ophelia partners with Blackwell, a powerful ghost, to save her sister, but when the competition turns deadly, his help may very well damn her instead.

Two lost souls who board The Elsewhere Express, a magical, dream-built train. Aboard, they must confront their grief, heal their personal trauma and hunt down a sinister stowaway threatening to destroy the train.

A cowardly, attention-seeking knight finds himself the subject of a prophecy, he must be killed to defeat an evil sorcerer. Refusing to die, the knight defects to the enemy, sparking a hilarious, genre-bending romance.

Nine-year-old Frank's ordinary life takes a terrifying turn when he shapeshifts into a werewolf, but he soon discovers he is not alone.

Maeve Abenthy lives under a fake name and avoids putting down roots to escape the stain of her father’s crime, and then she receives a letter saying her father was innocent and starts looking into his past.

Moving from Mexico to Chicago for their dad’s new job, nine-year-old twins Emma and Martin are gifted a book  that transports them into Mexican legend where they must stop the god of rain from destroying the legendary city of Texcoco.

Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.