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Curmudgeonly scholar Emily Wilde must brave the beautiful but haunted Black Forest and open a portal to a long-lost, eldritch realm dreaded by the Folk, in this fourth instalment of the bestselling Emily Wilde series.
Driven by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Emily Wilde has made a name for herself as the world's foremost scholar of faeries. Along the way, she's rescued a faerie kingdom and helped her now-husband - fellow professor Wendell Bambleby, dashing and infuriating in equal measure - regain his throne. And while understanding her fellow mortals has never been her strong suit, she's also made a small number of friends.
But two years later, one of those friends goes missing in the beautiful but faerie-haunted Black Forest in Germany, a region of picturesque villages and sinister Folk.
And if she's to save him, Emily will have to reckon with the darker side of her own nature, and how ruthless she's prepared to be to solve the most tantalising of scholarly mysteries: the history of the ancient and long-lost realm she's named Dark Faerie, the only place the Folk fear.
But Emily is not alone - she has her beloved Wendell, and her niece Ariadne, who hopes to follow in her footsteps. Told from the perspective of all three characters, this instalment of the Emily Wilde series opens a magical portal to the most wondrous and dread faerie realm of all.
A line has been drawn—and the hockey world is divided. For the first time in their professional hockey careers, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have nothing to hide.
For more than a decade, they kept their love a secret, but now they’re out, married, and even playing on the same team. The support is incredible. Most of the time.
They’ve gotten a lot of love from fans who are thrilled for them. But some people in the hockey world are still reeling from their relationship reveal, and the backlash—led by popular hockey podcast Top Shelf and the #TakeBackHockey movement—is getting louder.
Ilya and Shane are finally able to stand together in the light, the way they’d always wanted. And now they might be facing their biggest challenge yet.
This book is a very light read. It’s funny, witty, and was a breath of fresh air when I first read it. It’s about a girl that is pulled out of the real world and placed in a “videogame” world, where she has to defeat the dark lord, and each time she dies, the world is reset and she start again from scratch. If you liked Dungeon Crawler Carl, you will love How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying.
Staff pick for September!
This book is not a light read. The first half its a bit confusing but if you let her cook, it will definitely pay off. It’s an epic space opera, where you follow an AI inhabiting a human body, that is seeking revenge. There’s themes of grieve, genocide and colonization. Something that I really liked, but made it veeery confusing at first, is the usage of she/her as the pronoun for everyone. It was a great reading experience.
Current read of the Queer Book Club
Shannon Bell is a nobody. But she can act.
So when she's accepted into one of London's most elite drama schools, it feels like her chance at a life that's far from her drab home town.
There, Shannon meets Victoria: dazzling, wealthy, beautiful Victoria. The two become inseparable, Victoria the shining centre of Shannon's new world.
And suddenly, Shannon is no longer a nobody. Instead, she's on the inside, part of Victoria's exclusive set of promising young somethings. They spend their days competing for roles, and their nights vying for each other's affections.
But when Victoria's privilege begins to single her out from her peers, Shannon finds their friendship - and her jealousy - spinning out of control, with fatal consequences.
Current read of the Mystery Book Club
Agatha Christie's break-out crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', with its devilish locked-room puzzle, that catapulted Christie to her Queen of Crime status.Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself.But guilty secrets rarely stay secret.
Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really driven her to suicide? Sadly, Roger Ackroyd wasn't going to live long enough to find out ...
Current read of the Fantasy Book Club
Maia, the youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment.
Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favour with the naive new emperor, and overwhelmed by the burdens of his new life, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the spectre of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor.
John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell in this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few.
My job, when you think about it, isnt so different from a lot of peoples.
The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but thats a them problem: its been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live foreverlimited resources be damnedthere was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.
So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours.
Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, Im really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someones got to do it.
Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it.
Still.
This next job...I dont know. Its something I havent had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties.
Strange, that it got thrown my way.
Im sure itll all go totally fine though.
This is a pre-order, the book will be available for delivery/pick-up after release date: December 8th, 2026
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson-creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy-comes a new standalone novel set in his Cosmere universe.
In the next Cosmere standalone novel, Hoid has an epic tale to share: In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a young woman named December learns a devastating plague is on its way. But who will believe her? Against impossible odds, she sets sail up the River Violet to warn the king's court, determination-and wisdom beyond her years-burning in her eyes. With a chatty priestess and a fledgling fashion designer at her side, she must navigate incredulous royal officials, twisted court intrigue, and a roguish count who might hold the key to her quest-and her heart.
The novels of Hoid's Travails are standalone tales narrated by the worldhopping storyteller Hoid, and can be read in any order.
Current read of the Mystery/Thriller book club
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY?I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered.
Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty. Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier.
Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, secrets from his past and why he left home bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend's crime.
Current read of the Classics book club
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society.
This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later: the complex relationships, public and private, between men and women of different classes.
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Next read for the Everything book club
Who knows what the storm will blow in…Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind.
But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She’s young. She’s alone.
And she’s covered in blood. The girl won't explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The girl has a dark secret. One she’ll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
In this taut, deadly tale of endurance and desperation, Freida McFadden explores how far one girl will go to save herself – and the deadly repercussions of survival at any cost.
The Everything Book Club current read.
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles his fate with those of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. So begins a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond.
The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature.
'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought' Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.
It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
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Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
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What to say about Tress of the Emerald Sea that isn’t just a constant stream of love and adoration.. This is one of Daan’s favorite Brandon Sanderson novels. A whimsical story about love, pirates, and most of all… cups.
This book turned Brandon from a good author, to one of my favorites. If you’re a fantasy reader and haven’t read any of Brandon Sanderson’s work, this is a good entry point to his Cosmere universe.
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers.
But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts.
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Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion's greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children's books and recruiting posters - but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory - failed soldier, struggling scholar - falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting.
Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way.
If they want to rewrite Una's legend, and finally tell a different story, they'll have to rewrite history itself - and change their lives in the process .
What the book club thought about it:
Not for everyone, but definitely will make you feel things. If you read books because of comfort, then this is not for you, sorry. If you like to explore art through words, then stay for a treat. Artfully written, very meta, and it will leave you with a “WTF!!??” feeling that will linger for a couple weeks at least. Hate it or love it, you will have to read it to find out.
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Honestly, no words are good enough to describe this masterpiece of a book. But heed my words, DO NOT READ IN PUBLIC unless you are comfortable with crying your eyes out in front of people.
The Names tells the story of Bear, Julian and Gordon. They are the same, but different. Each name tells the story of what destiny awaits you, depending on the name you are given.
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This book is a trip. A trip the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, a trip to the Cultural Revolution, and a trip to the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism and inescapability of fate in stunningly rendered folklore.
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One of the best books I’ve ever read in my life. In simple words: People are becoming trees. But the background talks about how society has driven us to be so tired, so done, that the best option is to change our very essence, transform our DNA to be able to become one with nature once again.
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This book reads as a novel but is, in fact, a real life story.
It explores all they ways a woman can be oppressed, harassed, diminished, erased. It deals with morality and justice, what actions are good or bad, depending if you are a man or a woman. A must read for the feminist struggle.
The Coin is a weird book. It will definitely make you feel uncomfortable. A perfect book for a book club, as it ignites great conversations.
From the point of view of a rich Palestinian woman living in New York, The Coin will drag you through her psyche. This book is a conversation between Her and the reader. weird, uncomfortable and amazingly written.
On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire—love itself, bottled and sold to the highest bidder by Leandros, a power-hungry descendent of the god Eros. Eirene and her beloved twin sister, Phoebe, have always managed to escape Desire’s thrall. Until Leandros’ wife dies mysteriously and he sets his sights on Phoebe.
Determined to keep her sister safe, Eirene strikes a bargain with Leandros: if she can complete the four elaborate tasks he sets her, he will find another bride. But it soon becomes clear that the tasks are part of something bigger; something related to Desire and Lamia, the strange, neglected daughter Leandros keeps locked away. Lamia knows her father hides her for her own protection, though as she and Eirene grow closer, she finds herself longing for the outside world.
But the price of freedom is high, and with something deadly—something hungry—stalking the night, that price must be paid in blood
A rediscovered queer classic: the subversive, blazingly beautiful oddball romance between an ageing trans woman and a young revolutionary by a Latin American icon
It is spring 1986 and Santiago's streets are aflame with protests against the dictator Augusto Pinochet. From her lavishly decorated hovel, the Queen of the Corner embroiders linen for the wealthy, dreams of romance and listens to boleros to drown out the rioting and gunshots. When handsome young macho Carlos waltzes into her life, the ageing queer swiftly agrees to help with his clandestine activities.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekija escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin, renouncing her womanhood to live as a man. Her decision sets off a brutal chain of events, destroying her family and separating her from the one she loves the most. Years later, as Bekija - now Matija - tells their story to a visiting journalist, long-buried truths come to light, along with the realization of all that might have been.
Earth as we know it has ended: The apocalypse is being televised!
Carl, and his ex’s cat, Princess Donut, embark on a life-of-death adventure, while being part of an alien show.
This book is addictive, fun and a social commentary. With lovable characters and a compelling story, Matt Dinniman really hit all the spots we needed in these current times.
What the Fantasy/Sci-fi Book Club thought of this book:
“Totally worth the hype! Carl is such a likeable character, and Princess Donut is amazing too. The world-building is fun and not too complicated. Story-wise, you'll be hooked from the start. You discover the dungeon and the plot of the story alongside Carl and Donut. Some questions get answered in the book, but some won't, which made for a lively book club discussion. The book is even a real page-turner in parts. Couldn't put it down. Also love the humor. Would recommend it to everyone!” - Review by Marieke
Ana’s favorite Fantasy series, The name of the wind tells the story of Kvote, a prodigy orphan, that is on a mission to uncover the truth about his parents murder at the hands of the Chandra.
Full of adventure, introspection and whimsical characters, Patrick Rothfuss uses beautiful prose to create a world like no other.
An unfinished trilogy? yes, but still the most beautifully written fantasy book out there. Worth every second spent reading it, and re-reading it.
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Will of the Many has a very classic fantasy trope: a young man’s, Vis, kingdom gets taken over by the Republic and he wants to avenge his family, and homeland. Vis becomes an orphan and hides in a part of the Republic far away from his homeland and memories, only to be taken in by one of the Senators.
Even with the classic tropes used in the book, James Islington is doing things in such a different way, that the whole book kept me at the edge of my seat. Twists and turns at every corner. I was so enamored by this story that it was very hard to put down. Normally a book like this takes me ~4 weeks to finish. I was done in a week. A month later I was still constantly thinking about it!
If you are a fantasy fan reader, READ THIS BOOK IMMEDIATELY!
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