For your consideration this awards season
(displayed in publication order)
A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
A Sunday Times Bestseller
Target Book Club Pick, March 2025
Amazon Editors’ Pick, March 2025
Goodreads Editors’ Pick, March 2025
In the beloved tradition of Howl’s Moving Castle and The House in the Cerulean Sea, a whimsical and unforgettable cozy fantasy about adventure, common sense, and the power of love, as a cheeky butcher’s daughter, a befuddlingly handsome sorcerer, and his clever talking cat unlock magical secrets in the dark heart of their kingdom…
“Down-to-earth and completely irresistible, Foss is fantastic, as is her talking cat! A Harvest of Hearts is that rare story that feels both classic and unique at the same time. I loved it!” —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop
A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.
“A visionary book that is at once pensive, rollicking, and truly, bone-deep unsettling. Alex Gonzalez’s rekt is an absolute stunner.” —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author
“Gonzalez is a talented author who delivers solid character development and sharp writing about grief and guilt, but what sets this novel apart is its unflinching brutality. It’s tough to read a book filled with horrific accidents and vicious murders, but Gonzalez makes the price of entry worth it with his sharp assessment of human nature.” —The New York Times Book Review
★ “With the adrenaline of The Running Man, the violence and cruelty of the Squid Game series, and a dash of Fight Club, Sammy’s story links toxic masculinity and the rise of shock videos on the 2000s internet. Like clicking links online, Gonzalez’s world is addictive, compulsive, and impossible to leave—precisely because it could be our own.”—Booklist, starred review
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel 2025
BookRiot’s, The Best Books of 2025
Amazon Best Romantasy Books of 2025
Audible Best Romantasy Books of 2025
Library Journal, Best Books of 2025, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Reader’s Digest Top 10 of the Year, 2025
Washington Independent Review of Books, Best of 2025
Publishers’ Weekly, Starred Review
The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York.
“A lushly illustrated historical romance . . . This book is a charming fable — an elemental dance of fire and water.” ―The New York Times Book Review
“ WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON may be a debut, but it reads like someone at the top of their game. Lush prose, diverse characters, and a love story to swoon over? This book has got it all. Venessa Kelley is a dynamic writer who understands that little details matter just as much as the narrative itself. A feast for the senses!” —TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo
A USA Today Bestseller
Publishers’ Weekly, Starred Review
Kirkus, Starred Review
Library Journal, Best Books of 2025, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures.
“In these dark times, there’s nothing more radical than what Amplitudes says just by existing: there is a future, and we are in it.” —Adam Sass, award-winning author of Surrender Your Sons and The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers
I loved this anthology. Every story feels bigger than its word count, each a singular universe that stayed with me for long after I finished reading. Amplitudes left me expanded, curious, a bit heartsore, and terribly excited for the future of queer and trans literature. This is required reading.”—Chana Porter, Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of The Thick and the Lean
Ten Sleep by Nicholas Belardes
A modern Western horror about a trio of young people on a 10-day cattle drive that leads them through a canyon haunted by ancient mysteries and savage beasts who existed long before humankind.
“Open these pages and fall into a cattle drive up in the high lonesome country, where it’s not just the cattle and the work that are challenging—here there be monsters, too.” —Stephen Graham Jones, best-selling author of The Only Good Indians
“Nicholas Belardes’s Ten Sleep is a masterful work bringing together deep, ancient magic with a gut churning dread of the haunted spaces of the American west.” —Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series
“A haunting and atmospheric tale of old wounds and ancient creatures that blurs the lines between past and present. A deliciously unsettling journey into the unknown.” —Tim Waggoner, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Lord of the Feast
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde
Publishers’ Weekly, Starred Review
Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy.
“Remarkably imaginative and fun!” —Shannon Chakraborty, NYT-bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“Fran Wilde delivers the thrills in this roaring twenties cyberpunk mashup of heists, counter-heists, family lies and family ties. When the Canarviers start stealing, you can’t stop reading.” —Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugo-Award winning internationally bestselling author and National Book Award finalist
“A whirlwind, glittering novel of fabulous fashion and thrilling entertainment in a future Washington. I was entranced!” —Aliette de Bodard, award-winning author of Navigational Entanglements
The Changeling Queen by Kimberly Bea
A lyrical, sensual, feminist retelling of the Scottish “Ballad of Tam Lin,” combining folklore, desire, sacrifice, and nature’s wonder in a tale perfect for fans of Natalie Haynes, Genevieve Gornichec, Holly Black, Quicksilver by Callie Hart, and Outlander
“Lush, lyrical, and subversive, The Changeling Queen is a stirring anthem for female agency and desire, sung in counterpoint to the familiar ballad we thought we knew.” —Lyra Selene, International bestselling author of A Feather So Black
“With language as lush as the woods of Faery, Kimberly Bea casts storytelling magic. An atmospheric, immersive tale of love and sacrifice.” —Lauren J. A. Bear, author of Mother of Rome
“Rich with folklore, magic, mystery and a strange, dark beauty all its own, this lovely novel is as intoxicating as the Fae themselves. Opening its pages was like stepping through the veil into a long- ago time, when magic was rife and Faery was that much closer. Just beautiful.” —Kell Woods, author of Upon a Starlit Tide
The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo
“Manibo is the kind of writer who knows what’s forever: the gothic, the triumph of queers, the family fable.” —Meg Elison, author of Find Layla
“For all its beauty, no saints, no heroes, no angels inhabit this villa — only ghosts and secrets. Manibo has crafted a pitch-perfect modern gothic, in which the personal is political and there is no such thing as the past: only facets of a dangerous and suffocating present.” —Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning author Premee Mohamed
“Manibo weaves the tumultuous history of the Philippines with folklore and family drama to great effect—kinda like if Knives Out had a sleep paralysis demon sitting on its chest.” —Reactor, “30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025”
“Manibo has crafted a very enjoyable novel that sits right in the centre of modern Gothic horror.” —Ancillary Review of Books
Diana M. Pho 