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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsThis is the way the world ends. Again.Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter...Categorized as:
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![The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding]()
The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They've stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a ten-thousand-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blew up the son of the Archduke. Now they've gone and started a civil war. This time, they're really in trouble. As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew out of it...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Michael Whelan]()
The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Michael Whelan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsAt the outset of the final installment of our saga, Roland’s ka-tet is scattered across several different wheres and whens. Susannah Dean (still in the clutches of the demon Mia) is in End-World’s Fedic Dogan: a chamber of horrors where magic and technology can be merged and where a monstrous half-human child can be brought forth into the world... -
![The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin]()
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsThis is the way the world ends... for the last time.The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy...Categorized as:
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![Wizard and Glass by Stephen King]()
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsRoland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away... -
![Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King]()
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsRoland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers... -
![King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence]()
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsThe second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...Categorized as:
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![The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson]()
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsLia has survived Venda—but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. And only Lia can stop it.With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier—as leader. While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down...Categorized as:
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Wayfarer's Keep by T.A. White
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBranded a traitor by her people, Shea and her warlord—the fiercely dangerous Fallon—travel to the Pathfinders’ seat of power at her father’s request, hoping to form an alliance despite the distrust between them. It doesn’t take long before Shea and Fallon realize something is dangerously wrong in the place she once called home... -
![The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe]()
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAlternative cover editions for this ISBN exist here and here.Beneath the dying sun the disgraced torturer, Severian, at last comes to his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms.But Severian's journey is not ended, and high in Earth's ancient mountains he draws closer to his destiny...Categorized as:
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![Mist's Edge by T.A. White]()
Mist's Edge by T.A. White
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe pathfinder, Shea, has chosen to make a place for herself among her former captors, leaving behind her people and the life she once knew. However, not all welcome this outsider in their midst. Shea will find that surviving alone in the wilderness is child’s play next to navigating the politics that come with her new position... -
![The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody]()
The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn, young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present...Categorized as:
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![Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde]()
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win... -
![The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen]()
The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsKelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.However, power is a double-edged sword, and small actions can have grave consequences...Categorized as:
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![Finder by Connie Suttle]()
Finder by Connie Suttle
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dead god. A dying world. A girl never meant to be sentient. Siriaa is dying. A poison is spreading throughout the planet and none know how to neutralize it. Finder, working in King Tamblin's castle kitchen most of her life, has never spoken. A child of questionable parentage, Finder is an orphan assigned to perform duties nobody else wants... -
![The Sending by Isobelle Carmody]()
The Sending by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free...Categorized as:
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![Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard]()
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 85 ratingsThis is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace...Categorized as:
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![The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks]()
The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 42 ratings"Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren.It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Esterland knew of them -- except, finally, the Addershag... -
![Morrighan by Mary E. Pearson]()
Morrighan by Mary E. Pearson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBefore borders were drawn, before treaties were signed, before wars were waged anew, before the great kingdoms of the Remnant were even born and the world of old was only a hazy slate of memory told in story and legend, a girl and her family fought to survive. And that girl’s name was Morrighan...Categorized as:
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![The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks]()
The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAlthough some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic. Each Shannaran had a special death waiting for him- at the hands of The Shadowen-unless Par could find a way to free them all with the Sword of Shannara... -
![Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol]()
Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic.On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St...Categorized as:
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![The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe]()
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSeverian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange cannibalistic rituals, and the foreigner named Jonas all lie in his future...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Defiles by Richard K. Morgan]()
The Dark Defiles by Richard K. Morgan
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe final part of Richard Morgan's fast-moving and brutal fantasy brings Ringil to his final reckoning and sees the world tipping into another war with the dragon folk. And, most terrifying of all, the prophecy of a dark lord come to rule may be coming true very close to home .. -
![Pangea Online: Death and Axes: A LitRPG Novel by S.L. Rowland]()
Pangea Online: Death and Axes: A LitRPG Novel by S.L. Rowland
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEverything has a price. Pangea Online is no different. Esil has spent the past year toiling in the mines of Pangea while the more wealthy traverse its myriad of gameworlds. His luck changes forever when he stumbles upon a legendary Developer's Chest, containing an invaluable Worldpass, which grants him unlimited travel to all gameworlds... -
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![Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card]()
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him--secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny... -
![The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen]()
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsMagic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler—and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her... -
![The Keeper by David Baldacci]()
The Keeper by David Baldacci
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsVega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie. Now just one thing stands between Vega Jane and freedom - the Quag...Categorized as:
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Moon Chosen by P.C. Cast
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsChosen to embrace her true identity. Chosen to follow her destiny. Chosen to change her world.Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan, but she has been forced to turn from her duties, until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever...Categorized as:
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![A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer]()
A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a world where males are rarely born, they've become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding...Categorized as:
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![A Touch of Truth by Nita Round]()
A Touch of Truth by Nita Round
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree women. One bloody mystery, and a prophesy that transcends time. People have gone missing and no one knows where they've gone. The only clue left behind is blood, lots of blood, and a single silver brooch.Magda Stoner, captain of the airship Verity, has questions, and the Order for which she works has no answers to give...Categorized as:
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![The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks, Scott Brick]()
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks, Scott Brick
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsAncient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....Read by Scott Brick.15 audiocassettes (90 min. each) : analog, Dolby processed...Categorized as:
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![The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen]()
The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen a plague isn’t all that kills…As a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor’s wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and she is sent to Attic Island, a former prison turned refuge—and quarantine colony—for the ill...Categorized as:
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![Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody]()
Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book OneFor Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection...Categorized as:
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![The House of Power by Patrick Carman]()
The House of Power by Patrick Carman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFrom the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world created as a refuge from a dying Earth that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants...Categorized as:
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![The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase]()
The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer great-uncle, the mage Oron, bequeathed to her his oak-shaded chateau and a debt of magical honor. But Miss Ardhuin Andrews must hide her magical talents. How can she repay the debt? Political intrigue, duty, and echoes of an old war not truly ended combine to create a smoldering crisis in a world where magic and science coexist...Categorized as:
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![Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis]()
Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPrincess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown used to being cold... -
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Blue Adept by Piers Anthony
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him... -
![Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard]()
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsThis is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace...Categorized as:
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![Deception by C.J. Redwine]()
Deception by C.J. Redwine
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsBaalboden has been ravaged. The brutal Commander's whereabouts are unknown. And Rachel, grief stricken over her father's death, needs Logan more than ever. With their ragged group of survivors struggling to forge a future, it's up to Logan to become the leader they need—with Rachel by his side...Categorized as:
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![Kingdom of Ashes by Elena May]()
Kingdom of Ashes by Elena May
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMyra never witnessed the Nightfall. She has only heard stories from the eldest among them; tales of the Old World and of the scientists who invented the WeatherWizard - a technological innovation that controls the weather... -
![The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells]()
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsMoon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself..Categorized as:
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![Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay]()
Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation...Categorized as:
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Asunder by Jodi Meadows
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsDARKSOULSAna has always been the only one. Asunder. Apart. But after Templedark, when many residents of Heart were lost forever, some hold Ana responsible for the darksouls–and the newsouls who may be born in their place.SHADOWSMany are afraid of Ana’s presence, a constant reminder of unstoppable changes and the unknown... -
![The Jewel by Amy Ewing]()
The Jewel by Amy Ewing
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 44 ratings"Today is my last day as Violet Lasting. Tomorrow I become Lot 197."The Jewel is a shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing.Sold for six million diamantes, Violet is now Surrogate of the House of the Lake in the centre of the Lone City, the Jewel. Her sole purpose is to produce a healthy heir for the Duchess – a woman Violet fears and despises... -
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![Queen Song by Victoria Aveyard]()
Queen Song by Victoria Aveyard
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsQueen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life... -
![Frost by Kate Avery Ellison]()
Frost by Kate Avery Ellison
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the icy, monster-plagued world of the Frost, compassion might get a person killed, and Lia Weaver knows this better than anyone. After the monsters kill her parents, she must keep the family farm running or risk losing her siblings to reassignment by the village Elders. With dangers on all sides, she can't afford to let her emotions lead her astray... -
![The Gunslinger by Stephen King]()
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 81 ratingsThe Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil... -
![The Offering by Kimberly Derting]()
The Offering by Kimberly Derting
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTrue love—and world war—is at stake in the conclusion to The Pledge trilogy, a dark and romantic blend of dystopia and fantasy.Charlie, otherwise known as Queen Charlaina of Ludania, has become comfortable as a leader and a ruler...Categorized as:
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![The Diminished by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson]()
The Diminished by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the Alskad Empire, nearly all are born with a twin, two halves to form one whole…yet some face the world alone. The singleborn A rare few are singleborn in each generation, and therefore given the right to rule by the gods and goddesses. Bo Trousillion is one of these few, born into the royal line and destined to rule... -
![Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth]()
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsIn a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power—something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows...
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