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• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K,

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  This gritty, complex award winner takes place in a world that has regular, massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and is full of flawed characters who are sometimes unlikeable as they struggle with moral quandaries while trying to survive.

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  Three characters are on a collision course in this dramatic, engrossing fantasy inspired by Indigenous cultures of North and Central America.

• The Priory of the Orange Tree

  Shannon, Samantha, 1991-

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  Evil dragons are plaguing the nations, and everyone has a different plan for thwarting them. Shannon’s story will keep you spell bound as each narrator’s choices bring them closer to a final confrontation where the stakes couldn’t be higher.

• The Light Brigade

  Hurley, Kameron,

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  Soldiers are reduced down to light to travel between alien battlefields, but Dietz’s drops happen out of order. They assume they’re going crazy, but the more drops they do, the more they realize there’s more to this war than people are told.

• Middlegame

  McGuire, Seanan,

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  This nonlinear fantasy is intense and creepy but utterly compelling and well crafted and follows twins, one a math genius, the other a word whiz, who aren't quite human.

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