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The Knife of Never Letting Go
A boy whose every thought spills like noise into the air meets a girl who carries real silence. This is a story about becoming yourself in a world that has already decided what you are.
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Starling House
A girl with nothing to lose is drawn to a house that knows her better than she knows herself. Southern gothic, gritty, and full of teeth—about inheritance, longing, and places that claim you back.
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The Night Circus
A black-and-white circus that appears without warning and a rivalry that becomes a love story. Lush, atmospheric, and impossibly enchanting — a world that feels like stepping into a dream.
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A Deadly Education
A girl with too much power and too little trust tries to survive a school that eats the weak. Brutal, funny, and sharp—it’s about choosing kindness in a place built to punish it.
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Fairy Tale
A boy steps through a shed door into a ruined kingdom that feels both cursed and familiar. It’s a story about choosing who you’ll be when the world you enter is already broken—and whether you can carry light into a place that’s forgotten it.
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The Hazel Wood
A girl whose family is cursed by stories learns those stories want her home. Dark, literary, and edged with fairytale menace—the kind of book that reminds you magic has claws.
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Demon Copperhead
A boy grows up in the shadow of poverty and addiction, scraping together a life that keeps trying to fall apart. This is an Appalachian saga that refuses to look away.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
A woman haunted by visions walks through the cracks in time to uncover her lineage. Atmospheric, romantic, and beautifully tangled — a story about inheritance, second chances, and the magic of choosing yourself.
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Circe
A witch tells her own story for once. It’s about exile, transformation, and carving out a life from the scraps the gods leave behind. Fierce and tender in equal measure.
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In the Lives of Puppets
A found family of odd machines sets out to save the human they love. Soft, strange, queer, and full of that unmistakable Klune warmth — a reminder that even metal hearts can glow.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Inspired by Chinese legend, this is a luminous story of magic, devotion, and destiny. Beautiful, romantic, and full of celestial wonder — a true myth-lover’s feast.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
A strict caseworker visits a home full of magical children and discovers belonging where he least expected it. Cozy, colorful, and full of found-family magic.
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Piranesi
A quiet man tends to an infinite House of tides and statues, believing it loves him back. It’s gentle, sacred, and unsettling in the way truth is unsettling—like remembering a dream you lived in too long.
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Vicious
A quiet man tends to an infinite House of tides and statues, believing it loves him back. It’s gentle, sacred, and unsettling in the way truth is unsettling—like remembering a dream you lived in too long.
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Spinning Silver
Two exhausted artists tethered by magic and circumstance learn how to carry each other’s burdens. Tender, strange, and full of gentle wonder—like finding color in a place that thought itself gray.
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1984
A bleak look at what happens when power rewrites truth itself. Cold, relentless, and important—because it shows how easily a person can disappear while still standing in plain sight.
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Ready Player One
A neon-bright treasure hunt through a collapsing future, stitched together with nostalgia, game lore, and stubborn hope. A fast, immersive story about escape — and the cost of living outside yourself too long.
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Howl's Moving Castle
A chaotic wizard, a stubborn girl under a curse, and a castle that refuses to stay still. Charming and full of sideways magic — it feels like being welcomed into a very strange, very lovable household.
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The Song of Achilles
A love story that feels both ancient and painfully familiar. Soft at first, then devastating—about devotion, destiny, and the ache of loving someone the world was already planning to break.
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Under the Whispering Door
A man dies, finds a tea shop on the edge of the afterlife, and learns—slowly, stubbornly—how to be a better person than he ever managed while living. Gentle, queer, and healing.
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The Book of Lost Things
A boy grieving his mother slips into a world where stories twist, sharpen, and take on teeth. Dark, fairytale-haunted, and aching with the things we lose on the way to growing up.
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The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
A man with no memory stumbles into medieval chaos with only a glitching handbook to guide him. Chaotic, clever, and self-aware—perfect for when you want something weird and not too serious.
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Tress of the Emerald Sea
A soft-hearted girl crosses a deadly sea because love nudges her forward. It’s sweet, imaginative, and quietly brave—the kind of tale that reminds you heroism often looks like hope refusing to die.
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Two exhausted artists tethered by magic and circumstance learn how to carry each other’s burdens. Tender, strange, and full of gentle wonder—like finding color in a place that thought itself gray.
