Every fantasy book we've recommended, in one place.
Two immortals meet in seventeenth-century Africa: a man who survives by taking bodies, a woman who survives by changing her own. Their argument lasts centuries and crosses an ocean. The best entry point to Butler after Parable.
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Post-apocalyptic Sudan, a girl born of violence and marked for it, who grows into a sorcerer capable of ending the people who made her. Heavy subject matter handled without flinching. Won the World Fantasy Award.
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A world that ends regularly, and the people who can quiet earthquakes with their minds and are enslaved for it. Jemisin won the Hugo three years running for this trilogy, which had never been done. Start here.
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New York wakes up. Each borough gets a human avatar, and they have to find each other before something older takes the city apart. Funny, angry, and the most fun Jemisin has put on a page.
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Toronto's core has been abandoned by the government and rebuilt by the people left in it. A young mother turns to her grandmother's Caribbean spirit work to survive a gang lord. Hopkinson's first novel and still a standout.
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A grieving sixteen-year-old at UNC stumbles into a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights and discovers her own family line has older magic. Southern Black rootwork against Arthurian legend, and rootwork holds its own.
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Two Black teenagers in Portland, one of them a siren hiding what her voice can do in a city that polices Black girls for less. The magic is a metaphor and Morrow never pretends otherwise. It works.
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