Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (collectively known as speculative fiction or science fiction/fantasy)

In its broadest sense, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient myths and legends to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today, including
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Sorcery of Thorns
Magic for Liars
Storm and Fury (The Harbinger, #1)
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1)
The Beholder
Time After Time
The Girl in Red
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
Wolf Rain (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #3; Psy-Changeling, #18)
Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
The Chosen (Contender, #1)
The Haunted
All of Us with Wings
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    Madeline Miller

    Author of Circe

    Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches and writes. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.

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