“My name is Samantha.” Year published: 2021 Categories: Adult, horror Summary: Mattie can’t remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all. There’s something… Continue reading

Year published: 2001 Categories: Adult, urban fantasy Summary: In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep… Continue reading

“She does not know how to feel safe.” As I said it I knew it was true. “We will have to teach her how.” Year published: 2014 Categories: YA, fantasy LGBTQIA representation: M/M, minor side character Summary: Maresi came to the Red Abbey when she was thirteen, in the Hunger Winter. Before then, she had… Continue reading

Year published: 2016 Categories: YA, fantasy LGBTQIA representation: F/F, perspective character and side character, intersex representation, side character Summary: Imprisoned in a harem by a dangerous man with a dark magic that grants him power over life and death, the First Sisters must overcome their mistrust of one another in order to escape. But they… Continue reading

“If I can bear not to force everything to fit the looms I know…if I let the world begin to weave itself, what might it weave?” Year published: 2016 Categories: Adult, fantasy Summary: Roadsouls explores the power of art and creativity for transforming not only one’s own life but also the world one lives in. Timid… Continue reading

“Kittens should be round.” Year published: 1995 Categories: Adult, Sci-fi LGBTQIA representation: F/F, main character, her love interests and her friends Summary: She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been… Continue reading

“I cannot say Deny your pain. There is no life without pain. But use it. Grow beyond it. And do not deny your joy either, for without it life has no meaning.” Year published: 1989 Categories: Adult, historical fantasy Summary: Baudino sets this engrossing fantasy-adventure in a mythical land that replicates the political and religious tensions of… Continue reading

What cannot be healed must be transcended.” Year published: 1990 Categories: Adult, fantasy Summary: Tenar, last seen as a teenage girl in The Tombs of Atuan, is now well into middle age and widowhood. After having felt adrift for some time, she finds a new sense of purpose when she takes in a severely burned… Continue reading

“It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.” Year published: 2007 Categories: YA, fantasy, retelling (Snow White and Rose Red) Summary: Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from… Continue reading

“Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.” Year published: 2018 Categories: YA, fantasy Summary: In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. You can’t make… Continue reading