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The Third Rule of Time Travel

Philip Fracassi

A sci-fi thriller about time travel and unforeseen consequences.

Beth Darlow has done the impossible. She created a machine that allows the user to travel back to any time in their life. There are only a few hangups: you can only travel for ninety seconds, and you can only observe. When Beth's husband dies in a tragic accident, she's left to raise their daughter, Isabella, and continue their shared work. However, when observing her past has a ripple effect on her present, she must figure out the cause.

Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

John Scalzi

This humorous sci-fi novel takes place in the near future, where the moon unexplainably turns into cheese.

Suddenly, inexplicably, the moon was replaced with a sphere of cheese that is the exact same mass. Scalzi takes you through an entire lunar cycle with a wide cast of characters. Scientists, preachers, billionaires, and schoolkids confront their new reality when the cycle ends in a solar eclipse. Will it be the last one?

Sci-Fi, Comedy, Contemporary

Katabasis

R.F. Kuang

A dark academia fantasy set in the 1980s where two graduate Magick students set aside their rivalry to journey to Hell and save their professor's soul.

Alice Law has sacrificed everything to become one of the brightest minds in the Magick field. She's given the chance to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, until he dies in an accident that be her fault. Now Alice, and her rival, Peter Murdoch, must journey to Hell to go after him.

Fantasy, Dark Academia, Romance

Onyx Storm
(The Empyrean #3)

Rebecca Yarros

The highly anticipated third installment in the romantasy series, Fourth Wing, wherein dragon rider Violet is finally put to the real test.

After almost eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet knows the training is over. The raging war closes in around her as she seeks allies from unfamiliar lands. Navarre needs an army, power, and magic-- and Violet might be their only hope.

Fantasy, Romance, Adult Fiction

Sunrise on the Reaping
(The Hunger Games #5)

Suzanne Collins

A dystopian young adult novel set in the Hunger Games universe, 24 years before the first book.

The fiftieth Hunger Games is upon us, and Haymitch Abernathy has been named tribute. He's ripped away from his family, the love of his life, and his home, all in the name of the Capitol's death match. When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Adventure

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V.E. Schwab

A fantasy horror story about hunger, love, and rage that spans across different countries over 500 years.

Three vampires from entirely different centuries become entangled through a shared hunger, rage, and love. Schwab explores feminine rage, forbidden love, and the ways women are told to be satisfied when they are anything but.

Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal

Oathbound
(The Legendborn Cycle #3)

Tracy Deonn

The third volume in the contemporary fantasy world of the Legendborn Cycle. Set at the University of North Carolina, a young college student made a deal with a demon, and now she could be Oathbound to him forever.

Bree has put everything at risk. She's exiled herself from the Legendborn order, cut ties with her ancestral connections, and severed friendships with those who don't understand her magic. In an attempt to save Selwyn's humanity, Bree made a deal with the Shadow King himself. Now, Merlins are going missing, including Selwyn. As time goes on, it becomes clear that Bree's past is inexplicably connected to her present.

Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic

Shield of Sparrows

Devney Perry

A political romantasy set in the fictional world of Calandra. where the gods sent monsters to remind mortals they must kneel.

Princess Odessa has been told what to do for her entire life. She must obey the monsters that plague her kingdom. She must obey her father, the King of Quentis. When a legendary monster hunter appears in her father's throne room, everything changes. Now, she must go through with an unwanted political marriage. But what if she refuses the roles others choose for her?

Fantasy, Romance

Among the Burning Flowers
(The Roots of Chaos #0.2)

Samantha Shannon

An epic fantasy about the fictional kingdom of Yscalin and its centuries-long fight against the dragons.

This prequel directly precedes Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree. Marosa can't escape the control of her father, King Sigoso. Just over the mountains, Aubrecht, her betrothed, all but officially rules Mentendon. They've vowed to bring about a better world together. Estina, Draconic hunter, isn't so optimistic about the future; maybe she's right, because the great wyrm Fýredel is waking up.

Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Adult

The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

A historical fiction romantasy set across two time periods brings two people, who otherwise wouldn't know each other, together.

Sir Una Everlasting, an orphaned girl who became a knight, is Dominion's greatest hero. Her legend is retold in children's books, songs, and recruiting posters, but her real story has been lost to time. Centuries later, struggling scholar, Owen Mallory, falls in love with her story. The two find themselves tangled together in time, and they realize if they want a different story, they'll have to rewrite it themselves.

Fantasy, Historical Fiction

The Devils

Joe Abercrombie

A dark horror fantasy set in an alternate medieval Europe that follows a disgraced monk who leads a group of murderers and monsters on a mission to escort a thief to the city of Troy.

Brother Diaz has been tasked with a holy assignment to escort the heir to the throne to his rightful place in Troy. His flock of murderers, dark magic practitioners, and monsters must work together to achieve their mission. When flesh-eating elves invade their borders and their royals care for nothing but their own comfort, Brother Diaz and the devils might be Troy's last hope.

Fantasy, Horror

Brigands and Breadknives
(Legends and Lattes #2)

Travis Baldree

A cozy fantasy novel about doing what makes you happy and rediscovering yourself.

Fern has been a bookseller for decades, but when the ennui becomes too much, she moves to the city of Thune to be near her long-absent friend's coffee shop. That is, until a drunken night sees the rattkin waking far from Thune in the company of a legendary warrior, a chaos-goblin, and the world's worst hangover. Together, Fern and the warrior fight off bounty hunters trying to claim the goblin, and Fern might reconnect with who she really is.

Fantasy, Romance, LGBTQ+

Shroud

Adrian Tchaikovsky

An atmospheric sci-fi horror set in the distant future on a planet uninhabitable to humans, on which two people have crash-landed.

Shroud is completely inhospitable to human life-- no human should ever land on its surface. That is, until a catastrophic incident leads Juna and Mai to stage an emergency landing on the nearest planet. The pair journeys across land, sea, and air in an attempt to get back home. During their time at Shroud, Juna and Mai begin to understand its dominant species, and it understands them back. When they arrive home, they'll have to explain the impossible adventure they've been on and the extraordinary discoveries they made-- if they make it back at all.

Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Horror

All the Water in the World

Eiren Caffall

A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the near future, where climate change has completely flooded New York City, and only one group of people remains.

In the years following the glaciers melting, Nonie, her family, and their researcher friends have created a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The ragtag group spends their days foraging, hunting, and saving the most important collections of human history and science. A superstorm breaches the city's flood walls, and Nonie and her family must escape down the Hudson River with nothing but a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Will they be able to show the new world humanities greatest achievements?

Sci-Fi, Post Apocalyptic, Thriller

Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove

A science fiction horror novel that explores the real difference between being a monster and being human.

Demeter is a passenger ship-- one of the best-- who just wants to shuttle her humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. She would be able to do that, except her passengers keep dying, and no one believes her when she says Dracula is the cause. To avoid being decommissioned and seek the revenge she so desperately wants, Demeter joins forces with a werewolf, an engineer built from the dead, a mummy, a vampire, and a fleet of spider drones to take down Dracula once and for all.

Sci-Fi, Paranormal, LGBTQ+

Automatic Noodle

Annalee Newitz

A cozy near-future sci-fi story of abandoned AIs who open their own restaurant.

While San Francisco rebuilds following a war, a group of abandoned food service bots left in a ghost kitchen take over their delivery app account. They produce some of the best hand-pulled noodles in the city, under a rebranded "neighborhood lunch spot". Out of nowhere, someone starts review bombing their feedback page, and the bots must get to the bottom of it before their reputation plummets.

Sci-Fi, Cozy, Dystopian

Where the Axe is Buried

Ray Nayler

A cyberpunk dystopian thriller where two major governments, one whose leader downloaded his brain to a new body to keep control, and another entirely led by AI, become increasingly unstable.

The authoritarian Federation is led by a man who intends to keep himself in power indefinitely. Western Europe completely renounced human governance for more efficient AI Prime Ministers. When a plot to assassinate the President of the Federation coincides with a malfunction artificial mind, both sides start to crumble. Lilia, whose invention could bring down the President, goes missing. Lillia's fate becomes intertwined with a worldwide group fighting against the current world.

Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy

The Strength of the Few
(Hierarchy #2)

James Islington

A high fantasy novel set across three different dimensions, where the main character leads entirely different lives,

Following The Will of the Many, Vis has been replicated across three separate worlds. Within Obiteum, Luceum, and Res, there are three different bodies and three different lives. Vis must hide, kill, trust, and overall prove himself again, and again, and again. In order to stop the coming Cataclysm, Vis needs to understand the nature of what happened to him and why it happened in the first place.

Sci-Fi, Dark Academia, High Fantasy

Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

A contemporary sci-fi novel that follows two separate tales: one of an author whose life was upended, and the story she writes that might just change her life.

Zelu doesn't know what to do next. After the loss of her university job and the rejection of her latest novel, her life is thrown upside down. Disabled and unemployed —her nosy, judgmental family only makes matters worse. She decides to take a risk and write a book unlike any of her others, a sci-fi drama about the end of humanity. As time goes on, the line between reality and fiction becomes unclear.

Sci-Fi, Contemporary, Literary Fiction

The Luminous Dead

Caitlin Starling

A science fiction horror deep dive into spelunking on a distant planet.

Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, but she didn't know how dangerous it would be. Where she thought she'd be cataloguing mineral deposits and dealing with routine risks, she finds herself descending deeper with no clear objective. Her only contact with the outside world, Em, has no problem injecting her with drugs or withholding integral information. As she dives deeper, their secrets come to life. Gyre must navigate through fear and paranoia if she's to climb out alive.

Sci-Fi, Horror, LGBTQ+