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DPL Teens: Fantasy

Updated September 2023. Fantastic new reads hand-picked by our Teen Librarian. Newest titles at the top. Updated monthly!

Deschutes Public Library

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  • Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths.
    Book, 2023New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2023. — YA Lacelle, P
  • A bloody plague known as the mori roja has ravaged Goslind and the surrounding areas in this Gothic remix of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mask of the Red Death."
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2023] — FANTASY / RUTHERFOR MARA
  • In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2023] — FANTASY / BAKER KYLIE
  • Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can’t bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf--an ancient and profane magic--to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2023] — FANTASY / POLYDOROS ADEN
  • In a world of mermaids, spies, warriors and aristocrats, unlikely young allies Genevieve, warrior Koa, his sister Kaia and pirate-spy Alfie join forces to topple the Empire, which continues to expand through profits made from the blood of the Sea’s…
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — FANTASY / TOKUDA-HA MAGGIE
  • Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she's had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad--Emrys Myrddin's epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YA Reid, A
  • Despite the ominous warning of a fortune-telling grandmother, seventeen-year-old Clara ventures into the treacherous Forest Grimm to retrieve Sortes Fortunae, a magical book that can reverse a curse and save her village, facing deadly twists and…
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — YA Purdie, K
  • Brimming with ballgowns and betrayal, magic and mystery, decadence and darkness, House of Marionne is perfect for readers who crave morally gray characters, irresistible romance, dark academia, and a deeply intoxicating and original world.
    Book, 2023New York : Razorbill, 2023. — FANTASY / ELLE J
  • Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who…
    Book, 2023New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — FANTASY / JOSEPHSON KALYN
  • Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.
    Book, 2023New York : Margaret K. McElderry, 2023. — PAUPRETO NICKI HOUSE #1
  • Sailor Moon meets Cinder in Guardians of Dawn: Zhara, the start of a new, richly imagined fantasy series from S. Jae-Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — YA Jae-Jones, S
  • From the New York Times bestselling author of SIX CRIMSON CRANES comes a tale of two sisters—one as beautiful as the other is monstrous—who must fight to save each other when a betrothal contest gone wrong unleashes an evil that could sever their…
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — FANTASY / LIM ELIZABETH
  • As three warring fractures try to gain control of the kingdom, orphaned Zephyr, a strategist serving Xin Ren, infiltrates an enemy camp where she encounters the enigmatic Crow, an opposing strategist who might just be her match.
    Book, 2022New York : Roaring Brook Press, [2022] — FANTASY / HE JOAN
  • Sixteen-year old Koral and her brother, Emrik, risk their lives to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the sea surrounding their island. The ruling elite use the maristags for the deadly chariot tournament, the Glory Race. But when Koral…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2022] — YA Berwah, T
  • Sparks fly when eighteen-year-old Nigel meets Ori during the Culling, a competition that determines whether a magician is stripped of their powers or joins the magical society known as the Guild, but they soon realize the connection growing between…
    Book, 2023Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2023. — YA June, J
  • When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within.
    Book, 2022Boston : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — CHEE TRACI
  • When asked by the king to falsely prophesy the prince's love story for an upcoming ball, prophet and a liar Violet awakens a dead curse that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom--and her own fate.
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — FANTASY / CHEN GINA
  • Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will; she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. But under the brutal rule of the Lucis, her identity means her death. Sloane has hidden her abilities, but on her fifteenth birthday,…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — FALAYE DEBORAH BLOOD #1
  • Sequel to "The Gilded Ones" (2020): https://dpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S94C1803663
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — FORNA NAMINA GILDED #2
  • In this fantasy inspired by ancient Mesoamerica, a lineage of seers defiantly resists the shifting patriarchal state that would see them destroyed.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022. — FANTASY / HUERTA LIZZ