Staff Book Recs

Sleep-deprived narrator meets a strange man and creates an underground fight club that quickly evolves into a much more sinister and powerful force.

Dissociated, sleeping pill-addicted narrator falls into a year of sleep with the help of her naive therapist.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to escape into something soft, magical, and deeply comforting. It’s a cozy fantasy about Viv, an orc mercenary who retires from a life of battle to open a coffee shop in a city that’s never even heard of coffee. What unfolds is a gentle, heartwarming story of friendship, community, and chasing a quieter kind of happiness. I fell in love with the found family, the magical creatures, and the slow, satisfying pace. The audiobook (narrate

Set in the eerie expanses near the Salton Sea, this borderland Gothic novel intertwines a missing girl's mystery, mother/daughter trauma (a Demeter/Persephone retelling), folklore, and environmental injustice in poetic (and at times brutal) fashion.

The story follows Robin Swift, a Chinese orphan taken to study at Babel, Oxford's prestigious translation institute, where students learn to manipulate reality through silver-working. As Robin excels, he discovers the darker side of Babel's work, which is deeply entwined with British colonialism, prompting him to question his loyalty and consider resistance.

Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.

A dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom, but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking.

An epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.

Galaxy "Alex" Stern, a college student with a troubled past and the ability to see ghosts as she investigates magical and occult activities at Yale University.

Three women in three different timelines face the consequences of hungering for more in life.

A true crime and psychological thriller lover's dream book. Mary enters her mid-life crisis with visions of past murders close to home...

An Afro-Latina discovers slam poetry using it to understand her mother’s religion and her relationship with the world.

This Norse-inspired romantasy novel is about a woman blessed by gods to unite a nation under a power-hungry king with a very handsome son.

A young boy with a strange ability is kidnapped and held prisoner deep in the woods with a monster lurking in the basement...

This gothic romantasy novel has a unique magic system, romantic tension, and an engaging plot. Hugely popular at BotB.

In a world where an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. The government initiates eating "special meat"... humans.

A young woman uncovers her father's past as a scholar researching Vlad the Impaler (Dracula), which led to his disappearance years later.

A beautifully written story about two women fueled by deep hatred and obsession, forced to live together... What could possibly happen?