When her father goes missing and is presumed dead, January discovers a strange book, which leads her on a journey to uncover the true nature of her father’s work, only to discover that he’s the key to her own mysterious story.Part portal fantasy, part coming-of-age adventure, and part meditation on the power and importance of storytelling, Kameron Hurley’s latest is a riff on military science fiction classics like Robert Heinlein’s As they join the fight as part of the Light Brigade, Marlon James is best known for winning the 2015 Man Booker prize for his novel In the book, a man named Tracker is tasked with a mission: to track down a missing boy. Let’s take a look at the best fantasy books to read in 2020, based on all the novels released last year, and so far this year.. In the nearish future, a plague sweeps across the world. While genre fiction is often seen as an escapist form of literature (something that’s understandably needed in 2019), the best stories often address real-world concerns and anxieties. Wilson’s story is a powerful one about the dangers of oppressive ideologies, and the power that words have to create stories and entire worlds. Annalee Newitz takes a slightly different approach in their latest novel, Jumping between the Paleozoic, the 1800s, 1990s, 2022 and other times, time travel is a known thing in Newitz’s world: historians and activists jump back and forth in time to study the past. The Ynaa appear to come in peace, but their mission is shrouded in mystery, and any threat is met with extreme, disproportionate violence. Chuck Wendig’s latest has been compared to Stephen King’s In early days of the Spanish Inquisition, a royal concubine named Fatima and a mapmaker named Hassan are forced to flee for their lives as their home of Grenada is overtaken by the Inquisitors. It’s a fast, exciting read that’s reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s A couple of years ago, Adrian Tchaikovsky released his first science fiction novel, When an alien spaceship arrives at Earth and settles over the Virgin Islands, its mysterious, shape-shifting residents promise to deliver humanity untold advances and technologies. The Moon is the perfect, clean-slate environment for science fiction authors to use as a setting for alternative, political societies. Books Advanced Search New Releases Best Sellers & More Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Best Books of the Month African American Urban Fiction 1-12 of over 20,000 results for Books : Literature & Fiction : United States : African American : Urban They have good reason to flee. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Turnbull’s debut novel is an entrancing, powerful work that explores the imbalance of power between the Ynaa and islanders, and an exploration of the archipelago’s long history of invasions. The Agent of Hel series, by Jacqueline Carey (3 books) Carey is well known for her excellent epic fantasy series Kushiel’s Legacy, but she recently tried her hand at urban fantasy, to fantastic results. Many of the books on our year-end list imagine better futures and alternate paths that could take us there, and with a speculative twist.With that in mind, here are our favorite reads of 2019. The breathtaking adventure reminded me more than a little of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best stories. Hassan has two a dangerous secrets: he’s queer, and has the ability to change the fabric of reality with his map, adding new features to the world with the stroke of a pen. A woman named Shana accompanies her sister as she walks, and as others follow in their footsteps, the country erupts into a crisis, with violent militias threatening to kill the sleepwalkers. The Agent of Hel series, while on the short side for the genre, is full to … The perfect new fantasy book for our indulgent 21st-century binge culture, A Queen in Hiding is the first in The Nine Realms quartet, which will be released back-to-back from January to April 2020. Here, we take a look at the best fantasy fiction of 2020, look back at the most loved fantasy novels of 2019 and share some of the top fantasy fiction of all time. On a distant, tidally-locked world called January, a young woman named Sophia is inadvertently branded a dissident and exiled to a city on the planet’s dark side. These are the best YA fantasy novels of 2019, ranging from historical fiction, retellings of popular legends, and wholly original fantasy worlds. Charlie Jane Anders’ latest is a deeply compassionate and complicated read that interrogates privilege, love, and what it means to be human.