Fantasy Staff Picks

Book of Night

By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Sara Amini
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

“Charlie Hall is a semiretired thief called 'The Charlatan'. But when one last opportunity turns into a mess that seems to implicate her boyfriend that she may or may not love, things in this world filled with magic and shadow take a turn for the worse. Holly Black's transition to adult fantasy is seamless and flawless in Book of Night. I... Read more

She Who Became the Sun

The Radiant Emperor Duology: Book #1

By: Shelley Parker-Chan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

“Zhu’s tooth-and-nail fight for her destiny merges hero and antihero into a transcendent figure with an incomparably strong will. She Who Became the Sun carves out a bold and bloody new genre of epic fantasy. Read more

A Discovery of Witches

A Novel

All Souls Series: Book #1

By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 23 hours 56 minutes

Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series—“a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People).

Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, Shudder, and Max!

Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into... Read more

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

Blood and Ash: Book #2

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Length: 24 hours 21 minutes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the next novel in her Blood and Ash series… Is Love Stronger Than Vengeance?A Betrayal…Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she... Read more

These Infinite Threads

This Woven Kingdom: Book #2

By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Full of explosive magic, searing romance, and heartbreaking betrayal, this breathtaking sequel to This Woven Kingdom is from the award-winning and bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sabaa Tahir, and Tomi Adeyemi.With the heat of a kiss, the walls between... Read more

This Woven Kingdom

This Woven Kingdom: Book #1

By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—Tahereh Mafi’s first in an epic, romantic trilogy inspired by Persian mythology.To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide... Read more

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

“This is it. This is the magical school story that adults who grew up in the 90s and 00s have been hoping to find: one that incorporates a beautiful, erudite, delightfully post-steampunk world of magic, but that is ultimately about the hopes and the friendships of young people who came from outside the elite class, and whose lives have been... Read more

Clytemnestra

By: Costanza Casati
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Monarch. Mother. Murderer. Magnificent.
You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offense against you. This was not the life you ever... Read more

Snape

The Definitive Analysis of Hogwarts’s Mysterious Potions Master

By: Lorrie Kim
Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J. K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the... Read more

Atalanta

By: Jennifer Saint
Narrated by: Beth Eyre
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

“This is the story of Atalanta, a mortal woman who was left as a baby in the forest, raised by bears and eventually lives with Artemis and her nymphs until one day she is swept into the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece. While that quest may be the most iconic of Atalanta's feats, it never dominates the story of Atalanta herself in this... Read more

Rhapsodic

The Bargainer Series: Book #1

By: Laura Thalassa
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if... Read more

A Strange Hymn

The Bargainer Series: Book #2

By: Laura Thalassa
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited second book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the “bargainer” she owes countless favors to.She survived the mad king … but the nightmare isn’t over.Siren Callypso Lillis still wears the physical reminders of her time as Karnon’s captive, even... Read more

The Emperor of Evening Stars

The Bargainer Series: Book #3

By: Laura Thalassa
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens & Nathaniel Priestley
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

In the beginning, there was darkness.Before he met Callie, before he became the Bargainer, there was Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother, cursed with little magic, and destined to marry a slave. But fate had something else in mind.Till darkness dies.From the barren caves of Arestys to the palace of Somnia to... Read more

Dark Harmony

The Bargainer Series: Book #4

By: Laura Thalassa
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

There are worse things than death. Things that lurk in the shadows and slip into your dreams. Things that have no business existing. Things that once slept … but have now awoken.For Callypso Lillis, the fae magic that now runs through her veins is equal parts curse and good fortune. While it bonds her to Desmond Flynn, her soul mate and the King... Read more

A Shadow Crown

The Halfling Saga: Book #2

By: Melissa Blair
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more

Witch King

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Eric Mok
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

“Demons, witches, spirits, realms; Witch King has it all. This exquisite world comes to life under Martha Wells’ craftsmanship. Kai, a Demon trapped on Earth after a devastating multi-realm attack, wakes up in a new body surrounded by people with bad intentions. After disposing of them, he embarks on a journey to find out what the hell happened... Read more

One for My Enemy

A Novel

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

"Bringing a self-assured, intelligent manner to this dark mixture of urban fantasy, romance, Russian folklore, and Shakespearean storytelling, narrator Ferdelle Capistrano has a fine time giving voice to the seven beautiful but cunning Antonova sisters and the three equally cunning Fedorov brothers--all of whom are well versed in the dark arts."... Read more

Smolder

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book #29

By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves.
 
Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the new vampire king of America. Humans think she’s gone over... Read more

Cinder & Glass

By: Melissa de la Cruz
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz pens a lush, swoon-worthy retelling of "Cinderella" set in lavish Versailles. Perfect for fans of Bridgerton and The Selection!

Cendrillon de Louvois was poised to be the most eligible maiden in all of France. But the death of her father, the king’s favorite advisor, has left Cendrillon at the... Read more

One Dark Window

By: Rachel Gillig
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking.

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.

Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of... Read more