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- Five Fantasy Novels Where Heists Match the MagicA brilliant fantasy heist is built from two interlocking puzzles. The characters must work out how to steal something valuable, escape people who have prepared…
- How IndieBound Links Can Support Local Bookshops On Your BlogA book blog can do more than recommend memorable stories. With the right links, it can help readers discover independent booksellers, place an order through a…
- Mythic Aztec Gods In Fiction And RetellingStories shaped by the Mexica world offer a distinctive kind of mythological reading. The gods are connected to warfare, agriculture, childbirth, rain, death,…
- Solar Futures And The Rise Of Solarpunk FictionScience fiction has long imagined the future through sleek spacecraft, hostile artificial intelligence and cities glowing beneath permanent night. Solarpunk…
- Thrillers That Borrow History Without Becoming Historical FictionA historical setting can give a thriller its atmosphere without making the book primarily a historical novel. The difference is often found in the reading…
- Five books that explore the afterlife in unique waysAn afterlife usually arrives through familiar gates: heaven, hell, reincarnation or a cemetery where the dead keep their old habits. The books in this guide…
- Why The Traitor Baru Cormorant Makes Economics Feel PersonalSome fantasy novels build their worlds around enchanted bloodlines, ancient prophecies, or spectacular battles. Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant…
- Where enemies become lovers in slow-burn adult fantasy romanceAmong recent releases, Amanda Castillo’s A Deal with the Devil offers the best new adult fantasy romance with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers trope. It joins a…
- How To Curate A Spooky October Reading List Beyond The UsualOctober invites a particular kind of reading: eerie enough to feel seasonal, varied enough to avoid a month of interchangeable haunted houses. A satisfying…
- Beyond Altered Carbon: Science Fiction Reads on Memory and SelfSpeculative fiction has always obsessed over a particular question: what happens when the substance of who we are begins to slide. Memories can be borrowed,…
