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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Imaginary Locations

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  • The Tainted Cup
    Robert Jackson Bennett
    Paperback: 11/05/2024
     
    A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the ...
  • Julia
    Julia: A Novel
    Sandra Newman
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view...
  • The Palace of Eros
    Caro De Robertis
    Hardcover: 08/13/2024
     
    Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of ...
  • The Avian Hourglass
    Lindsey Drager
    Paperback: 08/13/2024
     
    At once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the ...
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call
    T. Kingfisher
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call&#...
  • Nightbirds
    Kate J. Armstrong
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is ...
  • The Last Murder at the End of the World
    Stuart Turton
    Hardcover: 05/21/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an...

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