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10 Fantasy Books For People Who Don’t Like Fantasy

These fantasy books won't take it personally.

The Mary Sue · Aug 18, 2025

The 10 Best Fantasy Books With Found Family (For When You’re Over Yours)

Your weird uncle. Your brain-rotted niece. Your financially more successful than you cousin. What do all of these family members have in common? They’re the last people you want to be stuck sitting with around the Thanksgiving dinner table. When you’re tired of your real family (who isn’t at times?)…

The Mary Sue · Jul 24, 2025

The 10 Best Fantasy Books With Happy Endings

Loved The Song of Achilles but still paying therapy bills due to the emotional trauma you sustained while reading it? Girl, same. You know what’s cheaper than therapy? Drowning your sorrows in new books with actually uplifting endings. If you’re tired of getting your tender fantasy heart stomped by a…

The Mary Sue · Jul 23, 2025

10 Fantasy Books That Feel Like Studio Ghibli Movies

These fantasy books might as well have rode the cat bus straight out of Miyazaki's mind.

The Mary Sue · May 21, 2025

The 10 Best Non-Violent Fantasy Books

Fantasy without violence? Whoever heard of such a thing? How else the realm supposed to defeat the Dark Lord no one’s gonna introduce him to the business end of a magic sword? While many fantasy stories feature characters who let their fists do the talking, this list made for readers…

The Mary Sue · May 19, 2025

Summer reading: 5 books on the joys and challenges of LGBTQ teen and young adult life

In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Jonathan Alexander – an English professor with a scholarly interest in the interplay between sexuality and literature – for recommendations of young adult fiction books that feature LGBT characters. What follows is a list that Alexander – who serves…

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022