Adult SciFi, Fantasy & Horror

These science fiction, fantasy, and horror books are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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List

The killing of a chestnut tree / Oliver Langmead.
"Meet Havelock Harper, gentleman detective. Dapper, delightful, and decidedly queer, he's here to solve your most magical mysteries. Everyone in England knows Havelock Harper, the celebrated consulting detective from the papers. But if any of them read h…
This shattered tempest : a hurricane wars novel / Thea Guanzon.
"The conclusion to the Hurricane Wars trilogy makes landfall-- and as the winds of war sweep through Lir, Talasyn and Alaric must confront the truth of their hearts and decide whether duty or desire will lead them forward. When the storm swallows the wor…
Lost on Paradise / Alan Dean Foster.
"Earth is crowded, polluted, and dismal. Like millions of others, Jonos and Liina scrape by on her poorly paying job and what little money he gets selling items scavenged from rich people's trash. Like millions of others, Jonos and Liina dream of Paradise…
A court of splintered harmony / Sarah J. Maas.
"What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful…
Red ants : stories / Kimberly Blaeser.
"The bold and genre-defying prose debut by the prize winning poet that incorporates social, historical, and supernatural elements to create a collection that is both contemporary and timeless, communal and deeply intimate. Kimberly Blaeser's singular stor…
Defy the dusk / Danielle L. Jensen.
"In the Sundered world, there are two options: Ride the dawn, or face what rises in the night. Twenty years ago, Lirien’s magic fractured the world and unleashed nocturnal creatures that brought civilization to its knees. Amidst the carnage came salvation…
The slantwise histories : collected stories / Alix E. Harrow.
"These are stories about the past as it wasn’t quite, but might have been—or could still be. These are stories about dreamers and liars and lovers and ghosts; people just like you. These are stories about places the world has seen, and some that hide just…
The Bishop of Durham attempts to surrender the city / Susanna Clarke ; illustrated by Victoria Sawdon.
"During the conquest of Northern England, the fairy host sweeps across the countryside. The city of Durham finds itself surrounded. But the encircling forces are not fairies, nor even other humans, but trees that trap the city within an eerie wood. Ranulf…
It looks like you in the dark / Mathilda Zeller.
"Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright—or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad bl…
As you wake, break the shell : a novel / Becky Chambers.
"Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant…
The tarot trials / Katee Robert.
"Kestrel has trained her whole life to compete in the Tarot Trials. Her mother won once, earning a place among the five ruling Cinque—then paid for it with her life, executed for alleged treason against the Minor Court. Now it falls to Kestrel to take up …
The haunted librarian / Auralee Wallace.
"It’s a dark and stormy night…and Amelia Bates is caught in the rain. Life hasn’t always been kind to her, and being a ghostseer certainly doesn’t make things any easier. Glowing warmly through the autumnal downpour is her safest haven: the library. Ameli…
The splintered sun / Tad Williams.
"With the old King of Hernystir's health failing, warlords carve up the land and rival factions clash over his rightful heir. Into this chaos steps exiled nobleman Flann and his allies to help the King's one legitimate heir claim his father's blessing and…
Witch daughter / Tanaz Bhathena.
"Rumors of witchcraft follow Princess Tahmineh like a storm cloud, making it impossible for her to secure herself a marriage or any kind of future. With her father, the king's, health in question, it becomes shockingly clear how desperate her situation wi…
Eternal glow : a novel / Heather Gay.
"Celeste built herself up from ridiculed outsider to pillar of the local Mormon mom group. Even among these perfectly polished and affluent women, her life appears utterly flawless, but the competition is stiff and the fall from the top is a long one. Whe…
Find me where it ends / Cassandra Khaw.
"Antigone is no stranger to death. For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog. When Antigone's own black dog arrives, she isn't afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfor…
Pan / Francesco Dimitri ; translated by Sophia McDougall.
"A brutal modern Italian retelling of the story of Peter Pan, now in English for the first time. The finest modern fantasy you'll read this year. Across the sprawling metropolis of Rome, children dream of an island that doesn't exist. An old god returns. …
The thrice-bound fool / Christopher Buehlman.
"Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on deciphering a very bad book indeed; a stolen, sentient tome that tries to kill him every time he…
A wall is also a road / Annalee Newitz.
"Gardenpath is a graduate student. They also happen to be an amoeba–a slime mold, to be exact–from an ancient civilization that dwells in the space between the stars. And when they turn their many eyes to researching a remote spot on one spiral arm of the…
His black tongue / Mitchell Lüthi.
"There is no plague in Enfaire.... Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-fearing town north of Reams. Not just dead things, but twisted forms…unholy shapes. And there are rumors, too, of a blasphemous union and of fell creatures tha…
The southern sorority of superstitious witches : a novel / Katie Ortiz.
"When Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria are invited to participate in a trial semester for women at Alabama's most prestigious university, they each have their own reasons for accepting. Lucille wants freedom from both her father's control and reminders of…
Cursed city / Kate Golden.
"Welcome back to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense, where the line between hunter and hunted has never been thinner. Viv Abbot will do whatever it takes to rescue Reid Graveheart, the reformed Brood demon she loves-even if it means teaming up with his vi…
The Court of Venus / Bel Banta.
"DELUXE EDITION-a gorgeous hardcover featuring gold edges, illustrated endpapers, front and back foil case stamps and 8 full-page interior illustrations The Court of Venus is an ensnaring romantic fantasy in which a moon-blessed magician is summoned back …
The scarlet ball / Nghi Vo.
"Judith Ban, former convent girl, courtesan, and failed thief, is on the lookout for her next identity. The daughter of a Vietnamese adventuress and a French naval officer, she’s no stranger to risk, but she’s unprepared for the secrets of New York’s lege…
Off the reservation : a novel / Stephen Graham Jones.
"Five years have passed since the massacre on the Blackfeet reservation in Stephen Graham Jones's breakout bestseller The Only Good Indians. Nathan Yellow Tail, one of the survivors of the revenge murders, finds himself in the hospital after a terrible ac…
Look what the cat dragged in : a novel / Jason Rekulak ; illustrations by Doogie Horner and Will Staehle.
"Meet Penny Padgett, a twenty-seven-year-old cartoonist in Philadelphia who agrees to pet-sit a very peculiar cat named Godfrey in her home. At first, he's a warm and affectionate companion who follows Penny all around the house and insists on sleeping by…
Dive bar at the end of the road / Kelley Armstrong.
"A forested road at night, slick from the pounding rain and eerily illuminated by flashes of lightning. Just before midnight, a car swerves to avoid something-or someone-mysteriously standing in the road, only to slam into a fallen tree instead. In the pi…
Trad wife : a novel / Sarah Langan.
"Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic three-hundred-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven well-behaved children, and a life of from-scratch meals and pastoral bliss, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behi…
Monsters of Ohio / John Scalzi.
" Welcome to Richland, Ohio. Things aren't great. The town’s biggest employer is closing shop, and Richland's on the brink. It's where Mike Boyd, with his own set of problems, finds himself returning to after decades away. He's not planning to stay. But R…
Public access afterworld : a novel / Jane Schoenbrun.
"At 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger. On Ju…
To dream in darkness : a novel / Ann Liang.
"China in the age of brilliance, where gods freely wander the three realms. Amongst them is the cruel and beautiful Death God, who has never failed to collect a soul on time. Until now. For when he seeks out Rujia, the noble god of healing—and the only go…
Astarion / T. Kingfisher.
"You're too pretty to die. Astarion Ancunin was supposed to be a magistrate, not a vampire spawn. He was supposed to serve the law, not the vicious vampire lord Cazador Szarr. And he was supposed to drink fine wine, not rat blood. Alas-the city of Baldur'…
Between sky & sea : a novel / Leena Kazak.
"Prince Zevayr of Arbinj has built his name on fear and blood. As the Dark Commander, he is a weapon first and a man second--honed for war and hollowed out by loss. The battlefield has taken everything from him, including his closest friend, leaving behin…
Archipelago of light / Dmitri Lincoln Mehlhorn ; foreword by Reid Hoffman.
"Across thirty-six years and six continents, the liberal order is dying, and seven strangers are building what comes next. A tech visionary and an engineer who thinks through his body. An intelligence analyst radicalized by a murder. A trafficking survivo…
The lost spectacular / Zoe Duhaime.
Both magical fable and a tender love story, The Night Circus meets The Midnight Library in this dazzling ode to the life-changing power of books, as childhood loves-turned-rivals chase each other through the stories that shaped them, leaping through class…
Other worlds than these / Stephen King and Peter Straub.
"Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among ot…
Victorious / V.E. Schwab.
"The triumphant conclusion to the Villains series from V.E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Eli Ever. Victor Vale. Two men, first best friends, then mortal enem…
Our infinite and inevitable ends / A.D. Sui.
"On a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, Dr. Cassandra Barlowe is right where she wants to be: working on an island of floating trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as far away from Dr. Yana Gulsvig as possible. Cas’s research on plastic…