Recs if you like The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar...
Incredible Fantasy You've Probably Never Heard Of
Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!
Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' fantasy. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)
South Asian Fantasy
Fantasy inspired by Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and/or Afghanistan (myths, setting, etc.)
BIPOC fantasy!!
We have a lot of requests in our library for these, so I figured I would provide the page bound community with our list!
Dragons, dragons, dragons!
A compendium of books featuring dragons
Canadian Literature
I wish we could make communal lists, because this would be a helpful one to be able to ask others to contribute to
Books that bring forth the desi dhamaka
Desi at heart, Desi as charged
aisa des hai mera
fantasy books written by south asian authors, featuring south asian characters
The Champaca Reading Challenge
Champaca Bookstore’s 2026 Reading Challenge.
This year, join us in reading a book: that’s a coming-of-age story about sea creatures that was previously banned about technology by José Saramgo, Toni Morrison, or Eunice de Souza set in extreme weather conditions about time travel about language about the means of production with an animal on the cover about flying about cities
