The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
In this reimagining of the Iliad, the love story is not of Helen and Paris but of Achilles and his beloved, Patroclus.
Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko
This story begins when Sasha, on a beach holiday with her mother, notices a strange man keeping tabs on her.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea
Sarah Pinsker
In the titular story from this collection, the world has gone to hell, and those with means have absconded to the sea, in cruise ships where no one gets off at port.
Circe
Madeline Miller
This is a subversive and triumphant retelling of the story of Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios.
Hard Light
Elizabeth Hand
Fleeing Reykjavik amid a series of murders, Cass Neary lands in London expecting to rendevous with her longtime lover Quinn—but Quinn is nowhere to be found.
Available Dark
Elizabeth Hand
Cass Neary has arrived home in New York, after a brief stint in Maine where she just happened to be involved with several mysterious deaths.
Generation Loss
Elizabeth Hand
“My life, who could pretend there wasn’t a big fucking hole in it?”
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
A group of Jesuit scientists, led by the polyglot priest Emilio Sandoz, set off on a mission to discover the source of music emanating from the direction of Alpha Centauri.
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
A group of Mennonite women suffer for years from mysterious midnight attacks, purportedly the work of demons come to punish them for their sins. Eventually, they discover the assaults are not the work of demons but of men—their own husbands, sons, and neighbors.
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
Ren is an eleven-year-old houseboy with a mission: to find his dead master’s finger, severed and lost years ago, and bury it with his body.
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
This, the final book in the Earthsea cycle, returns to the Dry Land—the land of the dead—where the barrier between life and death is crumbling.
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
The fifth book in the Earthsea cycle breaks from the path for five short stories, each of which reveals more about the Archipelago and the customs, traditions, and people within it.
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Two decades passed between the publication of the third book of the Earthsea cycle and this, the fourth.
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
The third book in the Earthsea cycle makes plain what before had only been hinted at: the magic of the wizards carries a cost.
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
The second book in Le Guin’s extraordinary Earthsea cycle continues her subversion of the usual wizardly tropes: Ged, the antihero from the first book, reappears, but he serves as an accessory to another’s story—that of a young girl named Tenar.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
The first book in Le Guin’s famed Earthsea cycle introduces Ged, a young and brilliant, albeit cocky, wizard who attempts to use magic he doesn’t fully understand, with dire consequences.
Infinite Detail
Tim Maughan
Tim Maughan’s debut novel is tragic and charming and very close to home: in response to the normalization of extreme surveillance, an anonymous cyberterrorist group figures out how to take the whole internet down, sending the world into chaos.
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
The main character of this book is a stone. A literal stone. Well, a god in the form of a stone, but a stone nonetheless.
Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor
The second book in Okorafor’s Akata series finds Sunny settled in to her new magical school, observing the changes in her body as she grows and becomes stronger.
Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor
This young adult series centers on Sunny Nwazue, a New York-born Nigerian and albino.