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VPL - Books Just For You - Fantasy, Poetry and Fiction

This Books Just For You reading list has been compiled by VPL's Readers Advisory team for reading who like J.R.R. Tolkien, Ian McDonald's "Time Was" and the poems of Frank O'Hara. Most items on this list are available in a variety of formats ranging from print books to ebooks and downloadable audio books.

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  • "A sword -and-sorcery narrative a la Tolkien...As in The Lord of the Rings, a small band of comrades--Man, Elf, Dwarf--must undertake a desperate journey into a kingdom of dread under the guidance of a mighty seer, while their threatened homeland…
    Book, 1978New York : Ballantine Books, 1978.
  • "The prose is lovely and fluid, lush descriptions of magic and immortal life buoying the narrative. A standard court fantasy, unique in its expansion on the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival." --Kirkus
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
  • A celestial event unbalances the world in this Nebula, Hugo, and Locus award-winner by Indigenous author Roanhorse. This is the first of a new trilogy set in a fantasy version of pre-Columbian South America.
    Book, 2020New York, New York : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
  • Adam Binder has always had the Sight since he was young. This has made his life difficult as although it runs in his family through his Father's bloodline he grew up disconnected from this side of the family after his Father left him when he was a…
    Book, 2020Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2020.
  • Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hell-bent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.…
    Book, 2019New York : Saga Press, [2019]
  • Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
  • I Must Be Living Twice

    New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014

    Myles, Eileen
    This collection of verse both old and new comes from celebrated poet, modern cult icon and author of "Chelsea Girls" Eileen Mylles. Known for their blend of fiction and reality, the fantastic and the mundane. Taking familiar places like the East…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
  • In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
    Book, 2011New York : Random House, c2011.
  • Part springtime journal ("why are there thorns?"),Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times' passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir…
    Book, 2016New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
  • Super Gay Poems

    LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

    Burt, Stephanie, 1971-
    Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. The poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and trans life itself. They include…
    Book, 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
  • Also a Poet

    Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

    Calhoun, Ada
    Ada Calhoun is the child of celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl who forty years prior had started work on a never completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara. Now four decades later Ada has found the cassette tapes of the interviews her father…
    Book, 2022New York : Grove Press, 2022.
  • Moral Agents

    Eight Twentieth-century American Writers

    Mendelson, Edward
    One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow,…
    Book, 2015New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
  • City Poet

    the Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

    Gooch, Brad, 1952-
    This 1993 biography of Frank O'Hara dives into the life they lived and gave one of the first intimate glaces behind the curtain into their life available for the public to consume.
    Book, 1993New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.