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by Margaret Atwood
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air [...]
Series: The Maddaddam Trilogy: Book 2
Published: 2009
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Lee C Conley
'Only valour and steel can stand against the rising dead'Arnar is a land of warriors, its people as stalwart as the stones themselves. In a land of dark fore [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2019
Score: 77
Our rating: 7.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Anna Smith Spark
A powerhouse grimdark fantasy of bloodshed, ambition, and fate, The House of Sacrifice is the thunderous conclusion to Anna Smith Spark's Empires of Dust trilogy, which [...]
Series: Empires of Dust #3
Published: 2019
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Tad Williams
Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen [...]
Series: Last King of Osten Ard #2
Published: 2019
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Anthony Ryan
VAELIN AL SORNA RETURNSAnthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song—the first book of the Raven's Shadow series—took the fantasy world by stor [...]
Series: Raven\'s Blade #1
Published: 2019
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.4 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Nick Brown
Stay out of trouble. Though this is Marik’s mantra, he rarely seems able to follow it. Having escaped a brutal civil war in his native South, the former s [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2018
Score: 85
Our rating: 8.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Madeline Miller
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scop [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2018
Score: 100
Our rating: 10.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Peter Newman
Return to a world of crystal armour, savage wilderness, and corrupt dynasties in book two of The Deathless series from Gemmell award-winning author Peter Newman.THE [...]
Series: Deathless #2
Published: 2019
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Jay Kristoff
The epic conclusion of the internationally bestselling Nevernight Chronicle from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.The greate [...]
Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #3
Published: 2019
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Ursula Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.A lone human ambassador is sent to [...]
Series: NA
Published: 1969
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Evan Winter
Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's [...]
Series: The Burning #1
Published: 2019
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Jay Kristoff
The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.In a land where three suns a [...]
Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #2
Published: 2017
Score: 97
Our rating: 9.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Jay Kristoff
Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff.In a land where three suns almost never [...]
Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #1
Published: 2016
Score: 100
Our rating: 10.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by JRR Tolkien
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast militar [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2018
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Peter Newman
‘An exciting new writer – sharp, compelling and original’ Mark LawrenceYears have passed since the Vagrant journeyed to the Shining City, Vesper in [...]
Series: The Vagrant Trilogy #3
Published: 2017
Score: 94
Our rating: 9.4 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Peter Newman
Following Peter Newman’s brilliant debut, THE VAGRANT. This is the much-anticipated sequel, THE MALICE.In the south, the Breach stirs.Gamma’s swor [...]
Series: The Vagrant Trilogy #2
Published: 2017
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
by KJ Parker
A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.Thei [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2019
Score: 77
Our rating: 7.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Ed McDonald
A sorceress cataclysm has hit the Range, the final defensive line between the Republic and the immortal Deep Kings.Tormenting red rains sweep the land, new mons [...]
Series: The Raven’s Mark #3
Published: 2019
Score: 83
Our rating: 8.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Samantha Shannon
A world divided.A queendom without an heir.An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen S [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2019
Score: 99
Our rating: 9.8 | 1 positive reader reviews
by Ray Bradbury
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second [...]
Series: NA
Published: 1951
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Justin Call
You have heard the story before - of a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, who comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it [...]
Series: The Silent Gods #1
Published: 2019
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.0 | 1 positive reader reviews
by Tad Williams
New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams’ ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! • Volume One of The Last K [...]
Series: Last King of Osten Ard #1
Published: 2017
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Robert Jordan
The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Wi [...]
Series: Wheel of Time: Book 4
Published: 1992
Score: 82
Our rating: 8.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to dest [...]
Series: NA
Published: 1953
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.2 | 0 positive reader reviews
by George RR Martin
From the masterly imagination behind A Game of Thrones - one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time and an unmissable HBO hit series - comes a definitive history of West [...]
Series: A Song of Ice and Fire: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones
Published: 2018
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.6 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Ray Bradbury
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. [...]
Series: NA
Published: 1984
Score: 90
Our rating: 9.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Adrian Selby
The greatest empire of them all began with a road.The Circle – a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacher [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2018
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.3 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified [...]
Series: NA
Published: 1932
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Brandon Sanderson
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to de [...]
Series: Skyward #1
Published: 2018
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.6 | 2 positive reader reviews
by Anna Smith Spark
A powerhouse story of bloodshed, ambition, and fate, The Tower of Living and Dying is a continuation of Anna Smith Spark's brilliant Empires of Dust trilogy, [...]
Series: Empires of Dust #2
Published: 2018
Score: 91
Our rating: 9.1 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Peter Newman
From one of fantasy’s biggest recent breakthrough authors comes an exciting, brand new series.The demonsIn the endless forests of the Wild, hu [...]
Series: Deathless #1
Published: 2018
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Isaac Asimov
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into [...]
Series: Foundation Series #1
Published: 1942
Score: 92
Our rating: 9.1 | 1 positive reader reviews
by JRR Tolkien
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien wil [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2017
Score: 95
Our rating: 9.5 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Anna Smith Spark
They’ve finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes. They’re fools and madmen and like the art of war. And their children go hungry while we pi [...]
Series: Empires of Dust #1
Published: 2017
Score: 89
Our rating: 8.9 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Terry Brooks
The age of peace that has reigned across the Four Lands is now at an end. An army of invaders, wielding a terrible new magic, is cutting a bloody swathe across the far nort [...]
Series: The Fall of Shannara #1
Published: 2017
Score: 70
Our rating: 7.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Dario Cannizzaro
After the sudden death of his best friend Neil, involving a 6-foot giant crow and quite some Tequila, Lou’s life takes an unexpected turn towards the impossible. As L [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2017
Score: 87
Our rating: 8.7 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Tom Toner
In the far future man has spread out into the galaxy. And diversified. Some have evolved physically into strange new forms, some have become immortal. Some hark back to the [...]
Series: Amaranthine Spectrum #1
Published: 2015
Score: 80
Our rating: 8.0 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Neil Gaiman
Huginn and Muninn, the Eyes of Thought and Mind; Freyr the Blade that stands alone; Mjolnir, Thunder, strength and devastator. Gods bloodied and wounded, that live and die. [...]
Series: NA
Published: 2016
Score: 88
Our rating: 8.8 | 0 positive reader reviews
by Margaret Atwood
Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Once he was Jimmy, a member of a scientific elite; now he lives in bitter isolation and lo [...]
Series: The Maddaddam Trilogy: Book 1
Published: 2003
Score: 96
Our rating: 9.5 | 1 positive reader reviews
by Brent Weeks
Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. His strength, wit and charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exac [...]
Series: Lightbringer: Book 1
Published: 2010
Score: 93
Our rating: 9.0 | 4 positive reader reviews