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New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of March 11, 2025.
Addison, Katherine: The Tomb of Dragons (Tor 978-1250816191, $28.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 03/11/2025)
Third in the Cemeteries of Amalo series, in the same world as The Goblin Emperor. Thara Celehar must navigate investigations and intrigue after ...Read More
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T. Kingfisher’s Swordheart (Bramble) debuts on three lists, in the top 8 of each. And Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author (Morrow) and Samantha Shannon’s The Dark Mirror (Bloomsbury) debut further down on the USA Today list.
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New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of March 4, 2025.
Andrew, Kelly: I Am Made of Death (Scholastic Press 978-1546104483, $19.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 03/04/2025)
Young-adult contemporary dark fantasy novel. Thomas, trying to pay his mother’s medical bills, becomes the interpreter for a wealthy girl who communicates ...Read More
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Kristen Cicarelli’s Rebel Witch (Wednesday Books), second in the Crimson Moth series, debuts on three lists, ranking #1 on the young adult lists of both NY Times and Publishers Weekly. And Piper CJ’s The Fox and the Falcon (Bloom), second in the No Other Gods series, debuts on two lists.
The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the March 2025 issue covering upcoming titles from genre houses slated through December 2025. Find out about your favorite authors’ upcoming books!
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Samantha Allen, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet (Zando 12/24). In this paranormal romance novel, protagonist Adam, who’s out and proud but also down on his luck, is commissioned to write the autobiography (and coming-out) of Hollywood hunk Roland Rogers. The twist is that Rogers is already dead, communicating frantically through his kitchen speaker. Adam must complete the project before Rogers’ body is found.
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This week’s debut is Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales (Del Rey), third in the Emily Wilde series, ranking in the top 10 of all four print lists compiled here.
Several debuts this week. TJ Klune’s The Bones Beneath My Skin (Tor) ranks on three lists, as high as #6 at New York Times. An omnibus of the first three Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Random House Worlds) debuts on the same three lists, as high as #5 at Publishers Weekly. And middle-grade fantasy Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft (Disney Press) debuts on three lists, two
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New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of February 11, 2025.
Becker, Elizabeth: The Moonlight Healers (Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1525830426, $30, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook 02/11/2025)
Louis Winston belongs to a family whose women possess magical healing powers, which they use by moonlight. She moves to her grandmother’s orchard, ...Read More
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A new novel by Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying (Bramble), second in her Nytefall trilogy, debuts in the top 10 on three lists. Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm remains at #1 or #2 on all four print lists.
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Cambias, James L.: The Miranda Conspiracy (Baen 978-1668072400, $18.00, 320pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 02/04/2025)
SF novel set in the far-future Solar System, third in The Billion Worlds series. Our hero Zee goes to the moon of Miranda to meet his girlfriend Adya’s upper-class parents. But while they visit, her parents are targeted ...Read More
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Here’s a highlight from our 2024 Recommended Reading List: The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar, out from CLASH Books.
From the Locus review by Alexandra Pierce, available in the April 2024 issue (excerpted):
The Man Who Saw Seconds is an action thriller that uses an age-old trope – when a man is wronged, his family threatened, how will he respond? – that is genuinely thrilling: the pacing is ...Read More
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Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm soars to the top of the four print lists compiled here, selling, according to the Publishers Weekly page, over a million units in its first week. Note that three of these four lists rank the “standard edition” separately from the “deluxe limited edition”; this Locus Online page has always compiled only the top ranking version of any particular title in a particular format.
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Here’s a highlight from our 2024 Recommended Reading List: Rest in Peaches by Alex Brown, out from Page Street Publishing.
“Thoughtful social commentary about race and the justice system is baked into this entertainingly absurd, page-turning slasher […]. Delightfully heart-pounding, suspenseful, and campy horror.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Quinn Marcelo wouldn’t necessarily win the award for Most Popular Person at her school, but unbeknownst to her peers, Quinn entertains them ...Read More
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Addison, Katherine: The Orb of Cairado (Subterranean Press 978-1645242130, $45.00, 120pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 01/31/2025)
Original fantasy novella, set in the award-winning world of The Goblin Emperor. Ulcetha is a disgraced scholar, framed and kicked out the University, and he makes a living crafting elven forgeries. But when his friend dies ...Read More
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Grady Hendrix’s Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Berkley) debuts strongly on print lists, ranking as high as #1 at Publishers Weekly and #2 at New York Times.
Jesse Ball, The Repeat Room (Catapult 9/24) This absurd dystopian (and possibly truly Kafkaesque) SF novel details a jury system where a single juror is chosen to relive the defendant’s experience; in this case, a menial worker experiences an illicit psychosexual relationship with a tragic end. “It’s in the novel’s absurdity that we are asked to view justice and the worth of a single human life in a new light.” ...Read More
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Burke, Ava: Haunting and Homicide (The Quick Brown Fox/Crooked Lane 978-1639109289, $29.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/21/2025)
Fantasy mystery novel, first in the Ghost Tour Mystery series. Tallulah “Lou” Thatcher can see ghosts, which helps her host viral ghost tours in New Orleans. When her rival tour guide is murdered by ...Read More
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No fewer than nine titles published on January 7, 2025 debut on one or more lists this week, most prominently (on three lists each) Mai Corland’s Four Ruined Realms (Entangled: Red Tower Books) and Fonda Lee & Shannon Lee’s Breath of the Dragon (Wednesday Books). The other seven are by Lily Braun-Arnold, Seanan McGuire, Sue Lynn Tan, Kristin Cast, J.T. Geissinger, Danielle L. Jensen, and Martha Wells.
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Shea, Brian & Byrnes, Raquel: Aurora Fragment (Severn River 9781648756221, $18.99, 312pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 01/14/2025)
Science fiction murder mystery novel. Detective Morgan Reed is drawn to an isolated Alaskan town, haunted by the intrusive memories of a killer. He teams up with the local detective to find a missing intern, ...Read More
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With publication due a week from tomorrow, Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm remains at or near the top of the three Amazon lists today.
Feehan, Christine: Dark Hope (Penguin Random House/Berkley 9780593819609, $29, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 01/07/2025)
Paranormal romance novel, the 38th in the Carpathians series. Silke Vriese Reinders knows a war is coming. The demon slayer has seen it over and over again in the cards — and the battle won’t just be ...Read More
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Xiran Jay Zhao’s Heavenly Tyrant (Tundra), sequel to Iron Window (2021), debuts on two lists, ranking #1 on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list, and #10 on the combined USA Today list.
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Already ranking on Amazon bestseller lists for 40 weeks now, and with publication due on January 21st, Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm creeps upwards on the three Amazon lists this week, ranking #1 on Amazon.com this morning.
Aliette de Bodard, In the Shadow of the Ship (Subterranean 9/24) This far-future SF mystery novella is the latest installment in the author’s popular and ambitious Xuya universe. Khuyĕn, now a magistrate, returns to the sentient ship Nightjar and the family she hasn’t seen since fleeing as a teen to attend her grandmother’s funeral… but a disappearance forces her to face the past. “A sharp-edged and glittering science-fictional gem.” ...Read More
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Lackey, Mercedes: Miss Amelia’s List (Astra House/DAW 9780756419097, $28, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 12/24/2024)
Fantasy novel, 17th in the Elemental Master series. In 1815 Miss Amelia Stonehold, goes to the Devon town of Axminster, looking to buy and staff a property, and possibly find a husband. But the Honorable Captain Harold Roughtower has his eyes fixed on her fortune and his plans for her wealth include the hidden Roman temple ...Read More
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Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth drops a notch or two on the four print lists compiled here, but remains solidly in the top 10 on all of them.
