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Academia

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Transcendent Kingdom

The Idiot

Catherine House

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60 books

Adult Fantasy

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Golden Fool

Empire of Sand

The Dragon Republic

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Shiver

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Jane Eyre

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Confusing In A Good Way

Gideon the Ninth

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The Inheritance

The Fall of the House of Usher

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The Bear and the Nightingale

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15 books

Dark Academia

Ninth House

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Jane Eyre

These Violent Delights

Dead Poets Society

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A Woman Is No Man

White Teeth

Goodbye, Again

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Eastern European Folklore

The Wolf and the Woodsman

Spinning Silver

Little Thieves

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Blood Scion

Golden Fool

Only a Monster

The Witchery

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35 books

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The Choice

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16 books

Flip The Narrative

The Cruel Prince

When We Make It

These Violent Delights

Six of Crows

Galatea

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35 books

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Dreamer's Pool

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Den of Wolves

The Harp of Kings

Golden Fool

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24 books

Historical Fantasy

Dread Nation

Lovely War

The Keeper of Night

The Library of Legends

The Court of Miracles

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41 books

Historical Fiction

A Master of Djinn

Dread Nation

Lovely War

The Keeper of Night

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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History They Wont Teach

The Uses and Abuses of History

Black Spartacus

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

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Immaculate Taste

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Circe

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Giovanni's Room

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Incredible Endings

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Indigenous Stories

Firekeeper's Daughter

An American Sunrise: Poems

Son of a Trickster

Indian Horse

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Jewish

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Violet Made of Thorns

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Magical Realism

Summer of Salt

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The Midnight Library

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Blanca & Roja

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9 books

Makes You Think

When We Make It

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Being Seen

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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Policing the Black Man

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The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life

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Everything I Never Told You

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Myths And Folklore

The Keeper of Night

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Sistersong

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Circe

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Non Tropey Sff

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White Night

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Plot Twists

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House of Earth and Blood

Elantris

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22 books

Queer Authors

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The Wolf and the Woodsman

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56 books

Queer Characters

Summer of Salt

A Master of Djinn

Ocean's Echo

A Spindle Splintered

A Mirror Mended

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12 books

Queer Classic Retellings

A Spindle Splintered

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Autobiography of Red

The Last True Poets of the Sea

The Guinevere Deception

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Queer Theory

The Argonauts

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Female Masculinity

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White Girls

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Empire Of Dust

Into the Wild

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30 books

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Hamlet

Obsidio

The Kite Runner

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

A Game of Thrones

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The Wise Man's Fear

Kingdom of Ash

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The Name of the Wind

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19 books

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Ninth House

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The Raven King

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The Dream Thieves

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Baptism of Fire

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Blood Rites

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Golden Fool

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The Inheritance

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Retellings

Gilded

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21 books

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Markswoman

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Ocean's Echo

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12 books

Standalone Fantasy

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24 books

Strong Female Characters

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Mexican Gothic

Galatea

Bloody Rose

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The Light of All That Falls

Words of Radiance

Assassin's Quest

Kingdom of Ash

The Priory of the Orange Tree

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25 books

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The Demon King

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Mark of the Thief

The Hidden Palace

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Chaos Reigns

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Villian Is The Mc

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