Fantasy and Science Fiction February 2026 |
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Celebrate Women's History Month in March
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| Son of the Morning by Akwaeke EmeziAkwaeke Emezi's latest takes their skills in a new direction with a steamy and evocative dark fantasy set in the Black South that will delight romantasy fans.
Tenderhearted Galilee has always felt a deep aching, knowing that she is different than the other women from her sequestered clan. When she meets Lucifer Helel and sees right through his facade as security head for a wealthy family, she realizes he is not human -- and neither is she. |
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| The Everlasting by Alix E. HarrowInstant New York Times bestseller * USA Today bestseller * National Indie bestseller
October 2025 LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick * November 2025 Indie Next Pick!
Sir Una Everlasting's legend as a courageous knight has been memorialized in story, but her life itself has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory's love of her tale suddenly takes him back in time to Una herself, where they will be entangled in a story bound to repeat over and over again unless they rewrite history. For fans of: knighthood fantasy with compelling characters and intricate storytelling, such as Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword and Charlotte Bond's The Fireborne Blade. |
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| The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina HenryA woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel.
Jessie Campanelli has lived for years with the guilt of daring her little brother Paul to enter the abandoned house on her street, only for him to never come back out. Now that she has a child of her own, she must finally confront the evil that broke her family apart. |
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| Graceless Heart by Isabel IbañezA lush tale full of enemies-to-lovers tension, whimsical magic, villain romance, and slow-burn desire, set in an enchanted, perilous Florence where forbidden power could ignite a war.
to save her brother, sculptress Ravenna Maffei reveals her magic ability during a competition in a city where magic is forbidden. Ravenna is then kidnapped by a powerful immortal family and taken to Florence, where her powers put her in the middle of a struggle for power and catch the attention of the family heir. For fans of: historical romantasy with enemies-to-lovers romance and intricate magic worldbuilding, such as Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu. |
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| A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories by Juhea KimAn exquisite, globetrotting story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world.
In this dystopian collection of short stories, people's lives are defined and transformed by human connection and desire for love in a world shaped by climate change and other global events. Told with nuance and care for showing the effects of trauma on the protagonists of each story, |
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| The Happiness Collector by Crystal KingCrystal King's contemporary fantasy also serves as an alternate history taking place between 2018-2021, where "urban fantasy, unexpected romance, and mythology all collide" (Booklist).
Historian Aida Reale thinks she has it made when a friend recommends her for her dream job in Italy. However, cracks slowly begin to appear in the facade as she and her new colleague Luciano do more research into her company, until she realizes that they are simply pawns in a game being played by the gods. |
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| The Strength of the Few by James IslingtonThis sequel to James Islington's highly acclaimed The Will of the Many offers "evocative prose and nuanced ruminations on the nature of power and sacrifice" (Publishers Weekly) that fans of R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War will devour.
Following the events of The Will of the Many, Vis Telimus has fractured himself into three separate realities. With each reality facing its own extinction-level threat, Vis may be the only one who can stop each one from happening. |
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Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
by Ian McDonald
How to Train Your Dragon meets Mad Max in this story of an orphan in a fractured Southwest who just wants to ride a dinosaur under the lights.
Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo! Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty under the sparkling lights of a big-top. To become a buckaroo, Tif needs to learn the tools of the trade, yet few dino maestros want to take a scrawny nobody from nowhere under their wing. But when Tif frees a dino from an abusive owner and braves the roving gangs of the formerly-American west to bring the dino to safety, he catches someone's eye. And boy, how those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking carnotaur.
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Detour
by Jeff Rake
A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book of this emotional, mind-bending thriller series.
If The Martian and The Twilight Zone had a baby, it would be Detour!
After preventing an assassination attempt, a police officer is invited to participate in a civilian-assisted space mission to Titan, a moon of Saturn. Motivated by family considerations, he joins a mixed crew of civilians and experienced astronauts on a groundbreaking expedition. Following unexpected events during the mission and their return to Earth, the crew begins to experience unexplained changes and encounters that raise questions about what truly occurred in space.
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| You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph WhiteA Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025.
Though hives of festering worms have taken over Appalachia, life isn't so bad for Crane: he's been able to transition, he doesn't have to talk, and he has Levi, who treats him like a man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant and the Hive demands he carry the baby to term, Crane realizes that his body is his only value to them and he'll have to fight to keep it to himself. Andrew Joseph White's adult debut is a gruesome and thought-provoking trans body horror nightmare for fans of Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt and Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. |
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