Top 10
The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Del Rey, July 15 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-87432-5)
A grad student researching an obscure female horror novelist unearths a decades-old mystery with eerie connections to her own great-grandmother.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones. Saga, Mar. 18 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-7508-1)
Presented as the 1912 diary of a Lutheran priest in Montana, this historical horror novel chronicles the life of a vampire who stalks the Blackfeet reservation.
The Country Under Heaven
Frederic S. Durbin. Melville House, May 13 ($20.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-169-5)
In the 1880s, a veteran of the Union Army follows strange visions across the American West while helping townsfolk to rebuild from the Civil War—and evading the Lovecraftian monsters that roam at night. 65,000-copy announced first printing.
Harmattan Season
Tochi Onyebuchi. Tor, May 27 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-78297-7)
In a magic-infused West Africa, P.I. Boubacar is drawn into a mystery involving a woman who collapses at his doorstep—and then disappears. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
The Hymn to Dionysus
Natasha Pulley. Bloomsbury, Mar. 18 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-236-4)
Bestseller Pulley gets into the mythic retelling game with the story of an ancient Greek warrior who must track down a vanished prince, a quest that reunites him with the witch Dionysus. 65,000-copy announced first printing.
Luminous
Silvia Park. Simon & Schuster, Mar. 11 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2166-8)
Set in a near-future, reunified Korea, Park’s debut follows alienated siblings Jun, a detective investigating AI crimes; Morgan, an engineer who has built herself an artificial boyfriend; and Yoyo, an uncannily lifelike robot.
The Nightshade God
Hannah Whitten. Orbit, July 15 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-43559-8)
In the finale to Whitten’s Nightshade Crown series, heroine Lore must find a way to destroy magic forever—even as her own power grows.
The Prince Without Sorrow
Maithree Wijesekara. Harper Voyager, Mar. 18 ($18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-342055-7)
Debut author Wijesekara launches a trilogy that follows a prince whose late father orchestrated a genocide against witches—and a witch who’s out for revenge.
The River Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar. Tordotcom, Mar. 4 ($24.99, ISBN 978-1-250-34108-2)
El-Mohtar, cowinner of the Hugo Award for This Is How You Lose the Time War, makes her solo debut with the story of two sisters who live on the edge of fairyland.
Where the Axe Is Buried
Ray Nayler. MCD, Apr. 1 ($28, ISBN 978-0-374-61938-1)
Revolution brews in a near-future world divided into the Federation, whose authoritarian president repeatedly downloads his consciousness into new bodies to stay in power, and the West, which is governed by an experimental artificial intelligence.
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Ace
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley (July 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-81945-6). A Fyren Order assassin stricken by a mysterious disease seeks the help of a healer from the rival Haelan Order. As they work together to find a cure, passion ignites.
Ad Astra
Dance of Shadows by Gourav Mohanty (Feb. 25, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-0359-0027-5) continues the epic fantasy reimagining of The Mahabharata that began in Mohanty’s Sons of Darkness. Now the disparate cast works to secure lasting peace in the face of an ongoing war and a supernatural threat.
Alcove
Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell (May 6, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89242-034-1). In 1989, a young gay man reeling from the death of his partner falls in with a coven of older men who use their magic to protect the queer community.
Atria
Departure 37 by Scott Carson (Apr. 29, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-9148-1) kicks off when every pilot in the U.S. receives a midnight call from their mothers—whether dead or alive—warning them not to fly the next day. As the government investigates, a teen girl stumbles onto Cold War–era secrets.
Blackstone
Advent by Seth Ring (Mar. 4, $28.99, ISBN 979-8-8746-9257-5) launches a sci-fi LitRPG series following a new recruit to the Defense Force, humanity’s last hope against enemy aliens.
CAEZIK
Haze by Katharine Kerr (July 15, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-64710-151-0). A scrappy spaceship crew is sent to investigate a potential threat to the technology used for hyperspace travel in this far-future space opera.
CamCat
A Dagger of Lightning by Meredith R. Lyons (Apr. 1, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-7443-1157-0). Hapless 45-year-old Imogen is abducted by an alien prince who believes she’s destined to turn the tide in an extraterrestrial war.
Dafina
Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond (July 29, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-5316-8) sets a vampire tale in an alternate 1710 America, where an enslaved African man uses his powers to lead a revolt.
Daw
Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin (Mar. 18, $29, ISBN 978-0-7564-1938-7). The monstrous heroine of Qin’s debut does her best to fight her nature while dodging supernatural enemies, investigating her aunt’s murder, and falling in love with a woman who may or may not be connected to the crime.
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji (May 20, $29, ISBN 978-0-7564-1991-2). A mysterious woman with preternatural technological abilities becomes the target of detective Ethan Krol’s investigation into the impossible drowning deaths of a father and son inside their apartment.
Del Rey
The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare (Mar. 4, $32, ISBN 978-0-525-62002-0). The sequel to bestseller Clare’s Sword Catcher finds heroine Lin forced to prove her lie that she’s the Goddess Reborn. Meanwhile, series hero Kel travels deeper into the criminal underworld.
ECW
Seventhblade by Tonia Laird (June 17, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77041-807-3). Laird’s debut fantasy follows an Indigenous woman who sets out to avenge the death of her son at the hands of a colonizing empire.
Erewhon
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo (May 27, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64566-086-6), brings together 22 sci-fi shorts about LGBTQ+ lives in the near and distant future.
Ezeekat
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (May 13, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-964721-13-2). After the ancient vampire Dracula kills every human passenger of the sentient spaceship Demeter, the ship seeks revenge.
Flatiron
The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth (Mar. 18, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-90859-9) follows a paranormal investigator as she looks into a series of deaths at a Denver hotel, leading her to a sinister cult and surprising family secrets.
Gallery
One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford (July 15, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-8121-1). After microbiologist Kesta’s husband is infected by a zombie virus, she does everything she can to hide him from the government and keep him—and their romance—alive.
Graydon House
The Moonlight Healers by Elizabeth Becker (Feb. 11, $30, ISBN 978-1-5258-3042-6) toggles between WWII France and 2019 Virginia to track a family’s healing powers from one generation to the next.
Griffin
Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel (Feb. 4, $19 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-250-90632-8). The 25-year-old Black heroine of Viel’s debut struggles to raise her younger brothers after their parents’ deaths—a task that becomes infinitely harder when creatures from her recurring nightmare start hunting them.
Hanover Square
The Dallergut Dream-Making District by Miye Lee (June 24, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-335-01535-8) returns to the world of The Dallergut Dream Department Store, this time exploring the factories where dreams are made—and exposing the dark underbelly of this magical industry.
Harper Paperbacks
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki (Feb. 25, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-341087-9). A Scottish woman time travels to 1877 Japan, where she falls in love with a samurai—despite already knowing his tragic fate. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
Harpervia
Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek, trans. by Kasia Beresford (July 15, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-337794-3). War between Russia and Ukraine leads to heightened tensions aboard the International Space Station, where commander Lucy Poplasky investigates an ammonia leak that may be sabotage.
Hell’s Hundred
The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark (May 6, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-642-7) retells Sweeney Todd through a series of letters between a journalist and Todd’s accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, who recounts her life and crimes. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Library of America
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, edited by André M. Carrington (Feb. 4, $24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-59853-811-3), collects new fantasy, sci-fi, and horror shorts from contemporary Afrofuturist writers.
Little, Brown
In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy (July 15, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-316-58760-0) stars a siren who must hide her monstrous nature to evade prosecution—until the ruler of a nearby kingdom recruits her to help him take down a far more vicious threat.
Minotaur
Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan (Apr. 15, $28, ISBN 978-1-250-32423-8). The sequel to Bless Your Heart sees the return of Lenore Evans and her granddaughter, Luna, who are responsible for keeping the undead from rising in their small Southern town. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Mira
Their Monstrous Hearts by Yigit Turhan (Apr. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-7783-6827-4). After a struggling writer inherits his grandmother’s Italian villa (and her eerie butterfly collection), he sets out to uncover the truth of how she died—and what exactly lurks in her mysterious greenhouse.
Morrow
Anima Rising by Christopher Moore (May 13, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-243415-9). In 1911, the painter Gustav Klimt saves a woman from the Danube canal. The last thing she remembers is being trapped in the Arctic with Victor Frankenstein 100 years earlier.
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King (July 22, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-344623-6). A reclusive college student unearths a family secret involving long-forgotten magic and her grandmother’s experience working at a Shanghai pencil factory during WWII.
Nightfire
Overgrowth by Mira Grant (May 6, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-76823-0). The next horror outing from bestseller Grant, a penname for Seanan McGuire, has a sci-fi twist: since childhood, Anastasia Miller has insisted that she’s an alien. No one believes her—until her extraterrestrial family arrives in force.
Orbit
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (May 20, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-58270-4). When diviner Sybil Delling’s fellow prophetesses go missing from the cathedral where they live, she turns to brash knight Roderick, who doesn’t believe in her visions, for help investigating.
Pantheon
Two Truths and a Lie by Cory O’Brien (Mar. 4, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-68728-4). Retired combat-drone operator Orr Vue works to clear his ex-boyfriend of murder charges in a flooded, near-future Los Angeles.
Penguin Books
Human Rites by Juno Dawson (July 8, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-14-313716-0) concludes the HMRC series as the witches of Her Majesties Royal Coven face off against Lucifer himself.
Poisoned Pen
Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen (Mar. 25, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7282-8157-5). In 1887, a woman descends into madness following the discovery of an ancient corpse on her husband’s estate. Meanwhile, her twin sister searches for a cure. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Putnam
Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda (June 17, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-85117-3) puts a contemporary horror twist on Euripides’s The Bacchae as recently widowed Lena travels to Athens with her adult son—and finds herself seduced by a group of mysterious, hard-partying women. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Random House Canada
The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd (Apr. 29, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-0390-1246-2). An assassin with the power to kill via a single touch is sent to dispatch an immortal prince. When he fails, the men develop an unlikely bond in Byrd’s queer romantasy debut.
Redhook
The Palace of Illusions by Rowenna Miller (June 10, $19.99 trade paper,
ISBN 978-0-316-57194-4) riffs on The Nutcracker as, in the run-up to the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, a clockmaker’s granddaughter discovers a mirror world full of magic.
Run for It
My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie (July 1, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-316-57818-9). The latest horror outing from DiLouie is presented as the oral history of a fictional 1990s punk band fronted by the Antichrist.
Saga
A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde (June 3, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-8683-4). In Ayinde’s debut, the nobles of a war-torn country invoke ancestral spirits to fight on their behalf while commoners founder without magic—until street rat Temi manages to summon a powerful spirit.
SCRIBNER
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. by Sarah Moses (Mar. 4, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-5188-7). The Tender Is the Flesh author sets her sophomore novel in a climate change–ravaged near future. Against this backdrop, a woman seduced by a mysterious religious cult strives to climb its ranks.
Solaris
The Price of Everything by Jon McGoran (Apr. 8, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83786-235-1). In a cyberpunk near-future world, Armand Pierce works for the cutthroat Courier’s Guild, responsible for delivering his client’s missives at any cost. When his most recent delivery vanishes, he’s forced to go on the run.
St. Martin’s
The Night Birds by Christopher Golden (May 6, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-28591-1). The government employee in charge of overseeing a half-sunken, 19th-century freighter in the Gulf of Mexico agrees to let his ex-girlfriend and two strangers who claim to be on the run from vengeful witches hide out on the ship.
Tachyon
If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw (June 17, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-61696-434-4). An ancient genie attempts to modernize his operation by opening a “wishing kiosk” at the mall, in Habershaw’s cozy urban fantasy debut.
Titan
A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang (Apr. 8, $22.99, ISBN 978-1-80336-938-9). Liu Lufeng, a princess of the treelike Feng people who have the power to control the wind, must marry a human king to uphold an ancient treaty in this science-fantasy novella from Nebula Award winner Jiang.
Tor
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (June 10, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-32052-0). This vampire tale from bestseller Schwab chronicles the interconnected stories of three women in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1837 London, and 2019 Boston.
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie (May 6, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-88005-5). Bestseller Abercrombie’s latest epic fantasy follows a monk who must lead a congregation of monsters and wielders of dark magic on a holy mission.
Tor UK
Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian (May 6, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-0350-4998-1) launches the Spells for Life and Death duology with the story of Cambridge student Aurelia Schwartz, who works to keep her magic hidden until a threat forces her to team up with her fellow witch and classroom rival Theodore Ingram.
Union Square
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara (Apr. 1, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4549-5809-3). In Abeysekara’s ancient Rome–inspired romantic fantasy debut, a prosecutor with the ability to tell when someone is lying can’t resist her attraction to the stoic judge who may be responsible for a past attempt on her life.
Viking
A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan (July 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-83196-0). During WWII, British witch Lydia Polk treks through occupied France searching for a powerful spell book that would cause immense damage if it fell into the hands of the witches of the Third Reich.
WordFire
Residue: Paramentals Rising by John Harrison (Feb. 11, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-68057-737-2). A woman searches for her missing sister in a postapocalyptic New York City replete with strange monsters made of negative psychic energy.
