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This guide encompasses the genres Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, also commonly known as Speculative Fiction.

Welcome, horror, science fiction & fantasy readers!

This guide will help you find your next great Horror, Science Fiction or Fantasy read. This group, which is commonly called Speculative Fiction, will often cross multiple genres so if you see books that you think should be in another genre as well, you're probably right! In these guides we are highlighting the classics, some local authors, staff picks and books that will help introduce you to each genre if you're not familiar with them. Get ready to dive into other worlds with these titles!

Staff picks

Goblin: a novel in six novellas by Josh Malerman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Patient by Jasper DeWitt
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman

What's new?

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Rain by Joe Hill
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Classic Monsters Unleashed edited by Kim Newman
Haunted Tales edited by Lisa Morton
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Questland by Carrie Vaughn
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht
Red X by David Demchuk

Outstanding audiobooks

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Clune
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
Crosstalk by Connie Willis
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Great graphic novels

After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor
Destroyer by Victor LaValle
Saga by Brian Vaughan
Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
The Strain by David Lapham
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way
Locke and Key by Joe Hill
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Aliens: Salvation by Dave Gibbons
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Clean Room Vol.1 by Gail Simone
Delphine by Richard Sala
Gideon Falls Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire
I Am A Hero Vol. 1 by Kengo Hanazawa
Bitch Planet: Book 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
RASL, vol. 1 by Jeff Smith
Mooncop by Tom Gauld

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