Maddalena and the Dark The Beast You Are: Stories Sleepwalk Fever House Thistlefoot Summer in the City of Roses Our Share of Night
The Curator The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories The Hero of This Book The Anthill Spinning Silver This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern Looking Glass Sound Maria, Maria: & Other Stories Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost Maddalena and the Dark These Prisoning Hills Uranians: Stories
Looking Glass Sound The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse Valleyesque: Stories The House of Rust Fever House

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By Book Moon

By Book Moon
Looking Glass Sound

Looking Glass Sound

Catriona Ward

$27.99 $26.03

If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.

Fever House

Fever House

Keith Rosson

$28.00 $26.04

What 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

Maddalena and the Dark

Julia Fine

$28.99 $26.96

A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich and strange and heady. Julia Fine is an extraordinary writer.

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

$16.99 $15.80

If 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

Uranians: Stories

Theodore McCombs

$25.00 $23.25

Exquisite, 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

Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

Emma Törzs

$30.00 $27.90

A 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

The Beast You Are: Stories

Paul Tremblay

$30.00 $27.90

Inventive, 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

The Curator

Owen King

$28.99 $26.96

The 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

Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez and Pablo Gerardo Camacho

$28.99 $26.96

Reader, 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

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

$21.95 $20.41

A 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

The Hero of This Book

Elizabeth McCracken

$26.99 $25.10

Absolutely gorgeous, beautifully observed, autobiographical fiction.

The House of Rust

The House of Rust

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

$16.00 $14.88

A novel stuffed to bursting with marvels and fairy-tale delights. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber casts a mighty spell.

The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

Rita Zoey Chin

$17.99 $16.73

The 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

Thistlefoot

Gennarose Nethercott

$28.00 $26.04

Irresistible, 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

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Zoraida Córdova

$17.00 $15.81

I 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

Valleyesque: Stories

Fernando A Flores

$16.00 $14.88

These 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

Sleepwalk

Dan Chaon

$27.99 $26.03

How 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

Maria, Maria: & Other Stories

Marytza K. Rubio

$24.95 $23.20

Loved this collection—gorgeous, formally inventive, playful, and full of strangeness.

These Prisoning Hills

These Prisoning Hills

Christopher Rowe

$15.99 $14.87

Christopher 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

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost

David Hoon Kim

$26.00 $24.18

The 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

Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

$23.00 $21.39

Dazzling, 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

Summer in the City of Roses

Michelle Ruiz Keil

$18.99 $17.66

A gorgeous, tender, warm-hearted reworking of mythic material that also feels resolutely set in the world that we live in.

The Anthill

The Anthill

Julianne Pachico

$16.95 $15.76

As 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

Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik

$18.00 $16.74

An absolutely immersive fantasy novel with three of my favorite characters in recent memory.

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Joy Williams

$16.95 $15.76

Sunglass sporting master of the short story! Joy Williams' fiction is dazzling, funny, and unflinching. Medicinal yet always delicious.