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- One Last Stop
Casey McQuistonstandalone novel2021
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One Last Stop is a 2021 LGBTQ romance novel written by American author Casey McQuiston. The novel is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman named Jane Su she meets on a subway, a punk butch lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway.
- Watership Down
series21 books1972
completed
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Watership Down is Richard Adams's 1972 novel following a group of rabbits who flee the destruction of their warren and cross the English countryside of Hampshire in search of a new home, developing over the journey a full rabbit culture of language, proverbs, and mythology. Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.
- The Secret of Platform 13
series2 books1994
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Eva Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) follows a rescue party of three magical misfits -- a giant, a wizard, and a young hag named Odge -- who cross from a hidden magical island to King's Cross Station's Platform 13 to recover an infant prince kidnapped as a baby and raised, unaware of his heritage, in the ordinary world. A 2019 sequel, Beyond Platform 13, was written by Sibéal Pounder after Ibbotson's death, continuing the story for new readers.
- James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahlstandalone novel1961
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James and the Giant Peach is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been re-illustrated versions of it over the years, drawn by Michael Simeon, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 which was directed by Henry Selick, and a musical in 2010.
- Monster Mission
Eva Ibbotsonstandalone novel1999
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Monster Mission is a children's book written by Eva Ibbotson. It was also published under the title Island of the Aunts. It was a Publishers Weekly bestseller and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2000.
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandannastandalone novel2022
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is a 2022 cozy fantasy and romance novel, and the adult debut from author Sangu Mandanna.
- Wayward Children
series18 books2016
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Wayward Children is a series of fantasy novellas by American author Seanan McGuire. It takes place at a boarding school for children who have journeyed to magical lands and been forcibly returned to the real world. The volumes alternate between being set at the school versus showing the lives of the children while they were in their alternate worlds.
- Bod Owens
series3 books2007
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The Graveyard Book follows Nobody "Bod" Owens, a toddler who escapes the murder of his family and is raised among the ghosts of an old English graveyard, absorbing their otherworldly customs while a threat from his past waits beyond the gates. Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel. Bod's story spans the original novel and that graphic-novel retelling rather than continuing in a prose sequel.
- The Great Ghost Rescue
Eva Ibbotsonstandalone novel1975
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The Great Ghost Rescue is a children's novel authored by Eva Ibbotson. It was published by Macmillan in 1975 and was Ibbotson's first published novel. The story deals with a ghost called Humphrey the Horrible.
- Adam Binder
series4 books2020
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The Adam Binder novels are a series of urban fantasy novels by David R. Slayton. The series consists of four novels, White Trash Warlock (2020), Trailer Park Trickster (2021), Deadbeat Druid (2022), and Redneck Revenant (2025). The novels received critical praise for their depiction of poverty, LGBT issues, and family relationships in the setting of urban fantasy novels. A spin-off novel set between books three and four, Rogue Community College, was published in October, 2024.
- Montgomery / Taggert
series10 books1988
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These Jude Deveraux romances are linked less by one continuing plot than by recurring family surnames — Montgomery and Taggert — that Deveraux threads through much of her historical and contemporary romance writing. A Knight in Shining Armor, her best-known novel, is a standalone time-travel romance whose heroine, Dougless Montgomery, falls for a sixteenth-century English lord pulled forward into her present; The Maiden instead belongs to her more tightly connected medieval Montgomery-brothers sequence. Readers should expect a loose family of stories connected by name and world rather than one continuous saga.
- Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allenstandalone novel2014
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Lost Lake is a light fantasy novel written in 2014 by Sarah Addison Allen. It was written during the author’s bout with advanced stage cancer.
- Pack / Pride Universe
series20 books2006
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Shelly Laurenston's Pride novels, beginning with The Mane Event, are paranormal romances set among shapeshifter clans — lions, hyenas, wolves, and more — who mix pack politics with broad comedy and romantic pairings across a sprawling ensemble cast. The connected Pack books extend the same shared world with a different cluster of characters.
- The People
series33 books1952
completed
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The People follows a group of telepathic, gifted humanoids who crash-landed in the American frontier generations ago and now live quietly scattered among ordinary humans, hiding their abilities while raising children who must learn to control powers that frighten their neighbors. Zenna Henderson told their story mostly through linked short fiction, gathered into the fix-up novels Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh and later omnibus collections. It's less a plotted series than a mosaic of related stories about faith, belonging, and exile.
- The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Postonstandalone novel2023
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Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it. And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed. After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
- Fledgling
Octavia E. Butlerstandalone novel2005
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Fledgling is a science fiction vampire novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 2005. It was the author's final book published before her death in 2006.
