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Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

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Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

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Embassytown

China Miéville

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

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The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)

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The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)

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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

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The Library at Mount Char

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Witch King

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The Spear Cuts Through Water

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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)

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This is How You Lose the Time War

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Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)

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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

China Miéville

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

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