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VPL -Books Just For You -Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Humor

This Books Just For You personalized reading list was prepared by a Vancouver Public Library employee for a reader seeking Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Humorous Literature. Some of the patron's favorite books and TV shows include The Sword of Kaigen, If We Were Villains, Harrow the Ninth, Lost, Daredevil, and Stranger Things while their favorite authors include R.F. Kuang and Oscar Wilde. This list includes both light humorous books and books with heavier themes.

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  • The first book in a series of novellas about a heavily armed and socially anxious security bot that wishes humans would stop putting themselves in danger so it can watch its shows in peace.
    Book, 2017New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017.
  • First book in the Southern Reach trilogy. Suggested because you like the TV show Lost.
    Book, 2014Toronto : HarperCollins Pub., c2014.
  • First book in the wuxia inspired War Arts Saga. Suggested because you like R.F. Kuang.
    Book, 2022New York : Del Rey, [2022]
  • Suggested because you like Harrow the Ninth.
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020]
  • The first book in the triple Hugo Award winning Broken Earth trilogy.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Orbit, Hachette Book Group, 2015.
  • First book in the Aurelian Cycle. The children of a revolution face difficult choices when they become the riders of the dragons that were once used to oppress their people.
    Book, 2019New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
  • First book in the Dandelion Dynasty series and winner of the Locus Award for First Novel.
    Book, 2015New York : Saga Press, [2015]
  • First book in the Dark Tower series which was one of the inspirations for the TV show Lost.
    Book, 1988New York : New American Library, [1988], c1982.
  • First book in the Green Bone Saga. Suggested because you like Sword of Kaigen.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Orbit, 2017.
  • Suggested because you like the TV show Stranger Things.
    Book, 2017New York : Bloomhouse Books/Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
  • An ambassador to an intergalactic empire tries to figure out what happened to her predecessor, a process hindered by the sabotage of a memory transfer process that was supposed to give her access to the previous ambassador's knowledge.
    Book, 2019New York : Tor, 2019.
  • Suggested because you like If We Were Villains.
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, [2019]
  • Suggested because you like the TV show Lost.
    Book, 2019New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2019]
  • A Xhosa inspired fantasy novel and the first book in the Burning Quartet.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Orbit, 2019.
  • Suggested because you like If We Were Villains.
    Book, 1992New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.