The 50 Best Contemporary Books of 2024
Top 50 Free Contemporary Books - April 2024
When Naelen Spencer shows up at Clarke Gannon’s apartment saying he wants to hire her to hunt his sister down, she’s got zilch inc...
The first female werewolf in centuries has to stay hidden. Micheal Dylan Connolly was born a girl against all odds, and she must m...
The Golden Compass meets Narnia in this YA fantasy trilogy. This is Book 1. Bekk cannot seem to stay awake. As a sophomore in high...
which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the life of...
Book 1 in the thrilling 7-book Atlantis Saga The US government, the US military, and world-renowned scientists are all after one t...
Try to imagine this. Try to imagine that you’re the last of a dying, powerful breed. Try to imagine that you can’t live alone. You...
All of the elemental powers are in the palm of her hand, and it won't be enough to save her. When Kaitlyn Alder is involuntar...
To keep an ancient evil from entering and destroying the world, foes become friends and enemies become allies. Good and Evil, God ...
An Epic Fallen Angel Fantasy Series The Cinderella Hour is a spellbinding paranormal romance that will sweep you off your ...
No Second Chance. Death, Life, or Love — Unbounded Always Play For Keeps. There are only two ways to kill Unbounded, and fire isn’...
Ever since a devastating magical war tore apart Ada Fletcher's homeworld, she and her family have lived undercover on the low...
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Save London from an impending vampire apocalypse? Sorry, my week is all booked. That's a book pun—I'm a librarian. Speci...
Something is devouring wizards.  And Amethyst Rey has just discovered she's next on the menu. Amethyst is being stal...
amused myself hugely and wrote a bad novel. Then I returned to London and, with a friend of my own age, took and furnished a small...
— So begins the apocalypse, with death and a story of love — An old soul (several centuries old), the lover, fighter, and telekine...
Raphael is an Angel of Order. . . sort of. His affinity for chaos makes him the perfect choice to investigate the trespass in Alas...
Dara was born with natural power, but it’ll be her death sentence if she’s caught. The aristocratic Witch Kin hold the monopoly on...
Every kid wishes for magic, but not Miriam Mermelstein. She wished for something real, but what turned out to be real, was not wha...
2023 Ontario Author Project Winner in Adult Fiction Rich with folklore and paranormal intrigue, The Hollow Gods is an atmospheric ...
They say some things can’t wait. One is destiny. The other is murder. Sonia tells herself she’s normal. She isn’t. A rare witch wi...
From New York Times Bestselling author L.P. Dover comes a fantastical tale of intoxicating romance and gripping intrigue. Ancient ...
A hapless hiker. A rogue cougar. An outcome no one expected. Wyatt took a dead-end job in his hometown for two reasons: hiking, an...
One false move — or trusting the wrong person — can turn the Gifted into the hunted. Captured by the Northern Alliance Betterment ...
He's killed three men in the few days she's known him. Yes, it's self-defense. But when he tried to kill her, it wa...
They can’t afford the cost of the villa, San Salvatore, on their own and must advertise for two others, eventually recruiting an e...
What if The Little Mermaid was a boy? Adrian is the son of Poseidon, and heir to the sea's throne. As a merman of the royal c...
Every fifty years, the most powerful ethereal and infernal beings convene on Earth to resolve conflicts with mediation by kopides-...
Alyssa's a student at one of the most prestigious academies for magical beings. Not that she's much of a magical being. ...
In this first book of the Paragon Seven series, seven queer people of color with superpowers work together to ov...
Can British magick be saved? Hell yes. Imagine modern Britain without magick. No fae enclaves. No flying chairs. No magick wands. ...
This engrossing and moving novel, with its diversity of memorable characters, offers many insights into political, religious and s...
Your curse is your biggest strength. I just didn't know it yet. Jamie Hunt's the high school quarterback in his senior y...
What if the beasts you wrote about were real? If they were knocking at your door, would you let them in? During a pandemic, Gracie...
He was just supposed to be a hot hookup. Something sexy to take my mind off being poor, living in a run-down apartment, and kicked...
A young man gets hired to work at a new hotel, completely unaware that his orientation and training includes being brainwashed, hy...
Tyler was a regular high school student until he was thrust into a fantasy world of magic and dragons. Now his new world is threat...
Her name was Capri, and she was Air. Abandoned as a young child, Capri Summers grew up in an orphanage with the knowledge that she...
Two brothers. One light, one dark. Ana is drawn to, and afraid of, them both. With impeccable pacing, Cradit shifts effortlessly b...
No one ever said surviving life would be easy. Ben Reed is not who everyone thinks, and worse, he can't remember anything. Ov...
Gamer. Nerd. Sorceress. Jade Crow lives a quiet life running her comic book and game store in Wylde, Idaho. After twenty-five year...
The future of the human race hangs in the balance. A powerful alien race called the Jegg has invaded Earth, wiping out half of the...
Math City is a place where is into Math book, and also the pages of the book are the streets of Math City. In this City, Monster N...
A hard-as-nails cop with a secret bloodline Homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis is up against a vicious serial killer unlike any s...
"A fast moving, engaging tale in what promises to be an epic fantasy romance series," Kirkus Reviews. The first time Cha...
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR  Megan Linski conjures a fantasy shifter romance where fae bond with fated mates and royals ...
Ceridwen Gault: Mom of Teens, Teacher of School, Mage-In-Hiding After staying as far away as inhumanely possible from the supernat...
Beth Ryder knows she's different. In a tiny rural town, being an orphaned and perpetually single amateur photographer cripple...
Eighteen-year-old Moira, an air elemental, never thought that waking up with an unusual blue fire on her arm would turn her life u...
Fifteen-year-old Amelina Scott lives in Cambridge with her dysfunctional family, a mysterious black cat, and an unusual girl who i...
Top 50 Paid Contemporary Books - April 2024
“True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author’s neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.” —Gu...
“Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”— The Wall Street Journal “ Freakishly compelling ...
In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a ...
The fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, ...
Inara spent two hundred years as a devoted shadow to her mother, sacrificing everything to do what was best for their family. She ...
Praised for having “the perfect blend of action, romance, suspense, and paranormal”*, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrica...
Every time Alora goes to sleep, she wakes up on another world, a magical world, a world that's about to collide with Earth in...
With his talent for divining the future, Alex Verus should have foreseen his friends’ reactions to the revelations about his previ...
View our feature on Rob Thurman’s Trick of the Light . When Trixa learns of a powerful artifact known as the Light of Life, she kn...
For Mage Alex Verus, everything is on the line in the tenth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Marked. On...
The Phoenix has risen, and we'd all better get out of her way. Healed and beautiful, well, perfect if you ask her, Phoenix no...
What kind of assassin works pro bono? It’s hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I ne...
“A new kind of vampire story, and the result is a surprising and spellbinding tale.” —Laura Moriarty, New York Times bestselling a...
New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new...
A hilarious comic fantasy from the bestselling cult creator of the Brentford Triangle Trilogy Once upon a time Jack set out to fin...
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER! A 2021 Alex Award winner! The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner!...
Demon patrol officer Ella Grey is all about saving the ones she loves, even as she fends off the reaper that's trying to eat ...
The super-rich control everything—including magic—in this thrilling and brilliant, contemporary fantasy from the author of the Ale...
Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who’s always up for a fight—even if it means putting her life on the line... The Ma...
View our feature on Glen Cook's Cruel Zinc Melodies . Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no o...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he’s ...
"Night Watch turns out to be an unexpectedly moving novel about sacrifice and responsibility, its final scenes leaving one ne...
The fourth Kate Daniels novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who “defines urban fantasy” (Fresh Fiction). Kate Dani...
Set in the same world as Faith Hunter’s New York Times bestselling Jane Yellowrock novels, the second Soulwood novel tells the sto...
A down on his luck wizard-for-hire must save his new boss from a deadly ice demon in this urban fantasy novel for fans of Jim Butc...
In a world where magic walks and demons ride, you can't always play by the rules. Jayné Heller thinks of herself as a realist...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series has been hailed as “one of the best” ( Fiction Vixen ...
“This is one of my coziest reads of the last year, and I find myself thinking about its enchanted setting all the time.” - Emily H...
Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is six fo...
Now in hardcover, the fourteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times -bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series When Octo...
Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot water when he intercepts a frien...
I never got involved in the dirt and the details of an investigation. I never let my preconceptions muddy a reconstruction. And I ...
When academies start to die… …The future of druid-kind hangs in the balance. Is Dragondale next? The students have something else ...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in the same world as Faith Hunter's bestselling Jane Yellowrock novels, the fourth Soulwood...
Death never dances alone. Death is due a soul, and Ben Reed is on a mission to reap it.  With his memories back… well, mo...
The 17th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series. October is very happy with her...
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND INDIE BESTSELLER One of Buzzfeed 's "Best Books of 2022"! An Indie Next Pick! A Lo...
The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas S...
Nora knows she needs to move on, and forget about magic. She's back in graduate school, and her life is going surprisingly we...
“In the history of comic fantasy, Mr. Pratchett has no equals for invention or for range. . . . Those who don’t [know him] can do ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed t...
When my mama gets kidnapped from prison, it don't take too long for the culprit to come forward. Seems Atlanta's head va...
From the bestselling author of The Spaceship Next Door: “I don’t know how old I am.My earliest memory is something along the lines...
“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the n...
From the very beginning, Chancery cared nothing for power, but fate has forced her to gather all the staridium necessary to rule t...
New York Times -bestselling October Daye faerie series • Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire • "Top of...
From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes an intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in New York Ci...
Beth’s dangerously sexy and seemingly all-powerful boss has disappeared, leaving an increasingly desperate group of Nolanders — an...
The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the New Y...
The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Mag...
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