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🪷2026 Fantasy Anticipated: Mouthwatering.

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I'm going to be so broke in 2026, but hey, at least my book collections are pretty.
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January

 
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Prince Arris must find true love to avoid being murdered by his new bride, a fate that has befallen all previous heirs to the throne. To survive, he held a tournament of brides, but his search leads him to Demelza, the daughter of a wizard and a swan...
The Swan's Daughter by Roshani Chokshi
 
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Graceless Heart is a fantasy romance novel by Isabel Ibañez set in Renaissance Italy, about a sculptress named Ravenna Maffei who possesses forbidden magic. She is forced to work for the immortal Luni family after entering a competition to save her b...
Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez
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Early 1900s, and gothic romance. A bratty, spoiled ex-ballerina, Petronille De Villier got married with a gold digging artisan, Arkady Kamenev, for an arrangement to escape her unsavoury family; only to find that both of them shared a darker appetite...
Fruit of the Flesh by I.V. Ophelia
 
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The next political dark fantasy with court intrigue. A peasant girl turned concubine named Wen has to compete to win and become Prince Terren's bride, to help her family and villagers. Sounds cliche, right? But that's where the cliche ends because We...
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

February

 
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Set in1920s Montreal cat shelter, Agnes Aubert must team up with a reclusive magician to save her shelter from a new location that also happens to be a front for his illegal magic shop. The plot involves Agnes and the magician, Havelock, having to pu...
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
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From the author of “Lore of the Wilds”, Analeigh Sbrana came to give us this new adult romantasy duology. If you like dark academia, and a twist about the Chosen One caught in two conflicting prophecies, this one is for you!
Heir of Prophecy by Analeigh Sbrana
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Tired of shadow daddies? Let's convert to the icy daddies. On her wedding day, Aurora Finch stumbled on the sun-blessed immortal Starmaker. She was whisked into his castle to learn the apprenticeship of a Starmaker, but also slowly falls in love with...
The Sun and the Starmaker by Rachel Griffin

March

 
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An atmospheric, haunting gothic and eldritch mix of Agnes, heir to a fallen noble houses, who must arranged her cousin's marriage to the prince. She was tasked to revive the magic of necromancy to restore her family's honor, but what happened if her ...
Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1) by Ava Reid
 
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What could be more feminine rage than a woman who become a succubus to eats her colonizer? Aicha is the story of Morocco's warrior goddess, her strange magic, fierce rebellion, and devastating romance.
Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui
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With the consequences of her murderous actions closing in, Lady Macbeth turns to the three witches for help, who give her a potion that transports her to an unknown realm. Desperately lost, she opens a door and comes face to face with a beautiful wom...
Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou

April

 
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Magical-antique experts Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling have been best friends forever, although lately each has begun secretly wishing for more than friendship. But when rumors about their relationship spread, they're forced to fake being enemies ...
The Antiquarian's Object of Desire by India Holton

June

 
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Come on, it's the author of The Prison Healer. Anything she puts out is going to be bangers with shocking plot twists. But to give a blurb, it's Shadow and Bone meets The Vampire Diaries. A young reaper hunter must team up with her childhood friend ...
Shadow Reaper by Lynette Noni
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From the author of The Bear and The Nightingale. It was such a beautiful series and I'd read whatever Katherine Arden puts out after this.
The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

October

 
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In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape. To his ...
Scorpion Deep by C.G. Drews
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May

 
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Sci-Fi. I am not a big fan of sci-fi much, but this book is SO GOOD. I like it better than the Greenbone Saga.
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
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