Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Also fulfills: Read a book with an unreliable narrator. Read a dual-timeline story. Read a book over 500 pages. Maybe: Read a book outside your comfort zone

Two rival magicians, teacher and student, reignite magic in 19th-century England, altering the course of history and the Napoleonic Wars. Hugo AwardWinner Locus AwardWinner World Fantasy AwardWinner

Also fulfills: Read a book that won an award. Read a fantasy novel.

In a privatized prison system, gladiator-style fighters Loretta Thurwar and Hurricane Staxxx compete in death matches for their freedom, while confronting systemic racism and corporate exploitation. National Book Award Finalist.

Also fulfills: Read a debut novel.

A curmudgeonly professor’s research on faeries is complicated by a charming rival in a remote village harboring magical secrets.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read a romance.

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.

Also fulfills: Read a book with LGBTQ+ representation. Read a historical fiction set before 1800. 

There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel.

A hilarious fantasy where a woman stuck in a time loop decides to become the Dark Lord herself instead of fighting him.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read a time travel story.

A thief claimed as a lost prince discovers his fate is tied to the empire’s destruction, challenging prophecies and heroic tales.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read an epic series starter.

When the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside the books.

Also fulfills: Read a fantasy novel. Read a time travel story. Read a book about books/libraries.