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By Book Moon

This is an occasionally updated list of some of the books recommended by Book Moon's very own Kelly Link.
Here's Kelly's official bio: Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, Get in Trouble, and White Cat, Black Dog. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband, daughter, six chickens, and a very good black dog, in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Looking Glass Sound
Catriona Ward
$27.99 $26.03If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.

Fever House
Keith Rosson
$28.00 $26.04What a time to be undead! Keith Rosson has written an epic nightmare of a book, the kind that will jolt you out of whatever reading rut you’ve fallen into.

Maddalena and the Dark
Julia Fine
$28.99 $26.96A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady. Julia Fine is an extraordinary writer.

This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
$16.99 $15.80If Iain M. Banks and Gerard Manley Hopkins had ever been able to collaborate on a science fiction project, well, it wouldn’t be half as much fun as this novella. There is all the pleasure of a long series, and all the details of a much larger world, presented in miniature here.

Uranians: Stories
Theodore McCombs
$25.00 $23.25Exquisite, unsettling, richly felt stories, in which both tenderness and the possibility of estrangement open up doors to the fantastic and the surreal.

Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Emma Törzs
$30.00 $27.90A twisty and thrilling fantasy in which both the magic and the characters have real complexity, real shadows. If, like me, you’re a fan of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo, pick up this book at once.

The Beast You Are: Stories
Paul Tremblay
$30.00 $27.90Inventive, entertaining, and guaranteed to trouble your sleep. I savored this collection – and I’m still thinking about the show-stopping tour-de-force novella in verse, ‘The Beast You Are.’ I’ve never read anything like it, but now I want more, more, more.

The Curator
Owen King
$28.99 $26.96The Curator feels a little like Owen King somehow brought a curiosity cabinet to life. There are terrors here, but also marvels and delights, and a set of the most interesting characters I’ve met in some time. Put The Curator on the same shelf as other classics of the uncanny and uncategorizable, like Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast. I loved it.

Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez and Pablo Gerardo Camacho
$28.99 $26.96Reader, beware! Our Share of Night is a novel so disquieting, so unsettling that I could neither put it down nor read it late at night. Mariana Enriquez’s short stories had already made me a fan for life—her novel is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
$21.95 $20.41A collection as assured, as generous, and as wide-ranging as Drinking from Graveyard Wells will always feel like the most profound and surprising gift. I loved these stories.

The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
$26.99 $25.10Absolutely gorgeous, beautifully observed, autobiographical fiction.

The House of Rust
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
$16.00 $14.88A novel stuffed to bursting with marvels and fairy-tale delights. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber casts a mighty spell.

The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern
Rita Zoey Chin
$17.99 $16.73The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is a bittersweet and achingly tender coming of age novel. Like V. E. Schwab and Audrey Niffenegger, Rita Zoey Chin is an expert guide to that territory in which magic, loss, and possibility change not only the characters but the reader, too.

Thistlefoot
Gennarose Nethercott
$28.00 $26.04Irresistible, exuberant, and—appropriately—surefooted, GennaRose Nethercott’s Thistlefoot brims over with earthy magic, picaresque adventures, and eccentric and formidable characters. It’s a fabulous, weird, gorgeous book.

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Zoraida Córdova
$17.00 $15.81I fell hard for this book. The dynamic, powerful mixture of secrets, stories, and longing that bind families together is Zoraida Córdova’s narrative engine, but her ability to evoke landscape and the numinous make The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina feel like an invitation into an enchanted garden.

Valleyesque: Stories
Fernando A Flores
$16.00 $14.88These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives.

Sleepwalk
Dan Chaon
$27.99 $26.03How to describe this excellent novel? Slapstick of the sinister might capture something of its peculiar, bighearted and epic scope, but Dan Chaon’s books are always hard to sum up. Anyway, I loved it.

Maria, Maria: & Other Stories
Marytza K. Rubio
$24.95 $23.20Loved this collection—gorgeous, formally inventive, playful, and full of strangeness.

These Prisoning Hills
Christopher Rowe
$15.99 $14.87Christopher Rowe is one of the finest and most humane writers of science fiction working today. His territory lies within the ruptured space where technology, humanity, and the natural world intersect, and his subject matter is trauma and the possibility of restoration, which he addresses with both tenderness and clinical skill.

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
David Hoon Kim
$26.00 $24.18The kind of book that holds you in a dream as you read it, intricate and frictionless and always marvelous. David Hoon Kim in his deep understanding of the strangeness of human experience and the connective bands between past, present, and future, belongs in the same company as writers like Emily St. John Mandel and Lauren Groff.

Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
Melissa Lozada-Oliva
$23.00 $21.39Dazzling, playful, and likely to break your heart at least twice. I love Dreaming of You five-hundred times as much as I hate writing blurbs. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a magician.

Summer in the City of Roses
Michelle Ruiz Keil
$18.99 $17.66A gorgeous, tender, warm-hearted reworking of mythic material that also feels resolutely set in the world that we live in.

The Anthill
Julianne Pachico
$16.95 $15.76As in all good ghost stories—and Pachico’s The Anthill is superb—the haunting operates like a kind of blacklight, showing us how loss and trauma, invisible under ordinary circumstances, reverberate nevertheless through the life of an individual, a family, a country.

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
$18.00 $16.74An absolutely immersive fantasy novel with three of my favorite characters in recent memory.

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
Joy Williams
$16.95 $15.76Sunglass sporting master of the short story! Joy Williams' fiction is dazzling, funny, and unflinching. Medicinal yet always delicious.