Fantasy genre books (761)


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The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum time-travels to 1988 East Berlin, where she meets members of an underground guild who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the wall, and learns that someone is using dark magic to change history.

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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison EN

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Reluctantly elevated to the throne when his father and brothers are killed in a suspicious accident, an exiled half-goblin is rapidly overwhelmed by ambitious sycophants, imperial burdens, and dangerous plots while searching for friendship and love.

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The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
A fantastical retelling of the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi from the internationally bestselling author of Out

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The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu EN

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Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
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An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award–winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriots’ Day,” a man having an affair finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. Throughout the collection, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a home brewer and wife during lockdow... continue

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The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
A shoreside burial coordinator who lives in self-enforced exile as penance for a long-ago mistake and a performer with a floating circus face unexpected life changes and new opportunities in the wake of an offshore storm. A first novel.

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The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / Armenia flag Armenia
Description:
"A tale of how what others understand as liabilities can be leveraged into strengths."--Provided by publisher.

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The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
In "The Great Divorce", C.S. Lewis employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory, this time exploring the question of heaven and hell. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, the theologian introduces readers to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.

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The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain EN

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Country: Asia / Bangladesh flag Bangladesh
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A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLA "Saad Z. Hossain continues to blow through the flimsy walls of genre like a whirlwind with The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, sweeping science-fiction, fantasy, myth, and satire into the wildly imaginative vortex of his ever-expanding fictional universe of alternate djinn-history and futures. Hossain's wit and wry compassion create a vision of humanity's hurtling path through time and space as both farcical and epic, leaving a blazing trail of casualties and wonders."—Indra Das When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumb... continue

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 4 (139 votes)
Description:
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's n

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The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.