Best Books for Adults 2021

7 Books Found

Filtered by 'Fantasy'
  • The Chosen and the Beautiful

    In this retelling of The Great Gatsby, character Jordan Baker is reimagined as a queer Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers and blocked from opening certain doors to society and power.
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  • The Jasmine Throne

    Set in a world inspired by Indian history, this sweeping epic fantasy features a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic who become unlikely allies—and, eventually, much more than allies—on a dark journey to save their empire.
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  • A Master of Djinn

    Cairo, 1912: In a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry’s youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
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  • No Gods, No Monsters: A Novel

    As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events.
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  • She Who Became the Sun: A Novel

    When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother’s identity to claim another future altogether—her brother’s abandoned greatness.
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  • The Tangleroot Palace: Stories

    This dark short story collection takes us into the heart of the tangled woods, a place rife with unexpected detours, dangerous magic, and even more dangerous women.
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  • The Unbroken

    A military fantasy set in a crumbling desert empire filled with espionage, rebellion, and assassinations.
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