Fantasy genre books (761)


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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Description:
Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy that's "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger) A USA Today Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020" One of Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies” A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends hi... continue

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The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A notable work of horror-fiction by Hodgson. âeoeThe House on the Borderlandâe is the story of two friends who visit a remote village in rural Ireland and find a manuscript in the ruins of an old house. It describes the experiences of an old man âe" the original owner of this curious house. This classic will keep you engrossed till the very end with its eerie setting and spine-chilling plot. Marvellous!

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The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins EN

Rating: 5 (9 votes)
Description:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

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The Hurricane Wars : A Novel by Thea Guanzon EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash of light and dark, their magic combines to create a new force the likes of which has never been seen. This rare power could be the key to saving m... continue

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The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
Description:
The audacious first novel from the award-winning and highly acclaimed Helen Oyeyemi. Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly’s visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn’t actually know who her friend is at all. Drawing on Nigerian mythology, Helen Oyeyemi presents a striking variation... continue

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The Iliad by Homer EN

Rating: 4 (16 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy. High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate. This is the Iliad- an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and mom... continue

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man i... continue

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The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
The Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian - Little Bull - who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard For Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be - proud, fearless and defiant. But being in charge of a real, live, human being is a heavy responsibility, as Omri soon discovers. And when his best friend, Patrick, is let in on the secret, he soon realises that life-changing decisions lie ahead.

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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.