Fantasy
The Fury of the Gods
John Gwynne closes the Bloodsworn trilogy with battles that pull us into the fighting and character endings that stay true to the harshness of his world.
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Fantasy
The Hunger of the Gods
John Gwynne carries the first book's tension straight into a richer, wider conflict. Our review of The Hunger of the Gods explores its characters, divine power and political intrigue.
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Mystery & Thriller
The Tenant
Freida McFadden turns an ordinary financial decision into a domestic mystery about trust, control and the place called home.
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Fantasy
The Strength of the Few
James Islington's second Hierarchy novel is a substantial return for readers already invested in The Will of the Many.
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Fantasy
The Sirens
Emilia Hart joins family mystery and coastal myth in a novel for readers who like their fantasy close to recognizable history.
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Science Fiction
The Poppy Fields
Nikki Erlick builds a speculative premise around a difficult wish: to wake up after loss without having to live through its pain.
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Mystery & Thriller
The Perfect Divorce
Jeneva Rose returns to Sarah Morgan's story in a sequel where a new separation brings old questions back into view.
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Mystery & Thriller
The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman's fifth Thursday Murder Club mystery belongs on the list of readers who want company as well as a puzzle.
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Science Fiction
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami imagines surveillance reaching into sleep, turning the difference between possible harm and actual guilt into a daily struggle.
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Science Fiction
The Compound
Aisling Rawle's debut uses a reality-show competition to ask what people will accept when comfort depends on staying in the game.
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Science Fiction
The Book of Lost Hours
Hayley Gelfuso places memory inside a library, then makes preserving it a struggle over whose history survives.
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Mystery & Thriller
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson gives the countdown thriller a personal twist: the person seeking the killer is also the victim.
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Fantasy
Katabasis
R. F. Kuang sends rival students into the underworld, making professional ambition the starting point of a fantasy descent.
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Science Fiction
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor makes literary fame part of the speculative problem, asking what happens when a story outgrows its creator's control.
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Fantasy
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab brings three women's lives into a gothic story of hunger, desire and the possibility of living beyond ordinary limits.
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Mystery & Thriller
Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney offers a psychological mystery for readers drawn to uncertain perception, fractured relationships and isolation.
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Fantasy
Alchemy of Secrets
Stephanie Garber's adult debut begins a new series where urban legends offer a route into danger as well as wonder.
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