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Given Our History by Kristyn J. MillerShipped by Angie Hockman
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Popsugar 2020 - A book with a map
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Master & Commander by Patrick O'BrianThe Night Ship by Jess KiddThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
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333 books — 404 voters

Master & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. LewisMr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
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182 books — 93 voters

Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
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796 books — 50 voters
A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi VoMaking History by K.J. Parker
2025 Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Six Wakes by Mur LaffertyA Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Space Opera Written By Women
248 books — 104 voters

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Single Man by Christopher IsherwoodThe Secret Place by Tana French
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77 books — 50 voters
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
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174 books — 91 voters

Ninth House by Leigh BardugoRedwall by Brian JacquesThe Essex Serpent by Sarah PerryThe Once and Future Witches by Alix E. HarrowForest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
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158 books — 47 voters
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettEmily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather FawcettA Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Mushrooms, Toadstools, Fungi
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Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi VoA Far Better Thing by H.G. ParryGifted & Talented by Olivie BlakeFable for the End of the World by Ava ReidThe Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Rosebud by Paul CornellThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersRiver of Teeth by Sarah GaileyWhen the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
Tor.com Print Novellas
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431 books — 75 voters


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