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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Magical or Supernatural

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  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    Douglas Westerbeke
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...
  • The Familiar
    The Familiar: A Novel
    Leigh Bardugo
    Paperback: 03/25/2025
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish ...
  • The Last Bloodcarver
    The Last Bloodcarver: (The Last Bloodcarver Duology, Book 1)
    Vanessa Le
    Paperback: 03/18/2025
     
    "A gritty world filled with a beautifully crafted cast and an intricate magic system. A smart, lush, and ...
  • Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
    Ben Okri
    Hardcover: 03/18/2025
     
    In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class ...
  • The Otherwhere Post
    Emily J. Taylor
    Hardcover: 02/25/2025
     
    The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique returns with another glittering dark fantasy about a...
  • A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
    Tia Williams
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-...
  • The Warm Hands of Ghosts
    Katherine Arden
    Paperback: 01/28/2025
     
    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie ...

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