Fantasy genre books (484)


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The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy that's "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger) A USA Today Bestseller! An Indie Next Pick! One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020" One of Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies” A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends hi... continue

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The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila EN

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Description:
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

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The Hunger Games : The First Book of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

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The Hurricane Wars : A Novel by Thea Guanzon EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash of light and dark, their magic combines to create a new force the likes of which has never been seen. This rare power could be the key to saving m... continue

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The Iliad by Homer EN

Rating: 4 (11 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate. This is the Iliad: an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven. Above all, this is a tale of the... continue

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury EN

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Description:
You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man i... continue

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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Writing his Comedy (the epithet Divine was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. It tells the story of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.

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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina : A Novel by Zoraida Córdova EN

Rating: 5 (6 votes)
Description:
"A ... novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited"--

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The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"A police inspector [reluctantly returns] to her hometown in Basque Country--a place engulfed in mythology and superstition--to solve a series of eerie murders"--From Amazon.com.