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Discover the season's most anticipated new fantasy books, perfect for fans of master storytellers like Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Brandon Sanderson, Leigh Bardugo and Travis Baldree. Check back often as more titles are added. Your next epic quest starts right here at Bookfinity.
New Fantasy Books September 2026
Doctor Strange: Endless Nightmare: A Graphic Novel (Marvel Arts)
by Kevin J Anderson - Raúl Allén - Patricia Martín
The latest book in the critically acclaimed, award-winning Marvel Arts line of stand-alone graphic novels curated by Alex Ross, featuring Doctor Strange in a psychedelic trip to the Nightmare Realm, brought to life by the creative team behind the national bestselling graphic novel adaptations of Dune
When Stephen Strange encounters a mysterious patient at his hospital who won't stop raving about how life is "nothing but the dream of a sleeping god," the rest of the world is suddenly struck with insomnia.
In order to prevent chaos from unfolding as the people around him become more and more desperate for sleep, Doctor Strange must embark into the mind of the madman who seems to have heralded this disaster, taking a psychedelic trip into the Nightmare Realm.
Kevin J. Anderson, Raúl Allén, and Patricia Martín, the creative team behind our trilogy of bestselling graphic novel adaptations of Dune, reunite to combine their creative talents once again.
In this visually stunning, fantastical adventure that has shades of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, Doctor Strange: Endless Nightmare explores the boundary between dreams and reality, combining forces with an unlikely ally in order to end a waking nightmare that threatens to destroy the world.
Galinda (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Charmed Childhood
by Gregory Maguire
In this sister volume to Elphie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Gregory Maguire shares the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent, and popular favorite character.
A deluxe limited edition hardcover featuring stenciled edges, designed endpapers, and more--is available for a limited time while supplies last!
Who was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University?
Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a "ga."
The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions--but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family's business strategies.
Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it. However, as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood.
Galinda reveals the girl behind the bubbly, shallow cliché--offering fans of Wicked their first richer glimpse into the life of a beloved and iconic character.
Harbinger
by Geneva Lee
Arden Icaros was never supposed to matter. From the poorest of five noble bloodlines, she prefers life on the family farm with dirt under her nails over the fine dresses at court. She just needs to get through one boring ceremony, inherit her earth magic, and return home.
Instead, she's handed a dagger and with it, an impossible choice. Now Arden is branded an omen of war, half the nobility wants her dead, and assassins are tracking her every move. Her only chance of survival lies with the most feared man in Antares.
They call him Bishop. No one remembers the name he had before he dedicated his life to his order. Empowered to execute first and question later, Bishop is ruthless, terrifying, and utterly loyal to the kingdom that wants Arden dead.
He should kill her. Instead, he offers her sanctuary.
But the longer Arden stays under Bishop's protection, the more dangerous he becomes. Because Bishop has secrets powerful enough to topple kingdoms...and a need for Arden that could ruin them both.
Pictures of You
by Josh Malerman
A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist's dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House.
After a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve walls, and the deep, dark corners are nothing like the hotel she and Jack rented.
More worrisome yet: Emily has no memory of this place from the night before.
Where is she?
A woman's voice directs her to remain in bed.
Just so ...
And beyond the end of the bed, a picture frame upon an easel--a frame with no canvas, no painting, no art.
Only ... there is the silhouette of a person Emily does not recognize. A person emanating demand, danger, evil. And the way the woman talks ... and the things she says ... She's acting as if Emily herself is the painting. The still life. The art.
Emily is as scared as she is confused. But it's immediately clear Jack's life is on the line with her own. And if she attempts to escape the bed and the wood frame of this nightmare masterwork, neither will survive the experience.
Emily is fierce, independent, brilliant, but to get out of this, she'll have to think like an artist herself.
The clock is ticking.
For Emily.
For Jack.
For being forever trapped.
Josh Malerman's unforgettable and terrifying Incidents Around the House became an instant classic of horror--and now Malerman has done it again. Pictures of You is a tale of thrilling terror that will chill you until the last page--and have you thinking of the heroine's search for love and the meaning of art long after.
The Rouse
by China Miéville
From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making--a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.
Maur's life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.
So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets--and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.
Tempest
by Victoria Aveyard
"A TRIUMPHANT, EPIC ADVENTURE." - Rebecca Yarros
From Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen, comes a romantic fantasy epic like no other in which a fallen noblewoman faces off against her former love--the last great pirate captain--amid a brutal war for the high seas.
Cat Rose knows what it is to live in two worlds, in two times. Before--as Lady Catrine Rose of the Meridian Empire, chained to a loathsome lord with a dwindling fortune. And after--as the Widow Rose, queen of a pirate tavern in the Lyrian Sea, determined to be the master of her own fate.
But tides turn and winds change. The Meridian Empire looms on the horizon, the full weight of her navy falling on the Lyrian, bent on reclaiming the wealthy colonies and crushing the pirate republic once and for all. Ship after ship is captured, save for one, captained by a pirate who continually evades both noose and blade: the legendary Valerian Kane.
With his fearsome ship and uncanny connection to the song of the sea, Valerian is the only man who might rally the pirates who remain. The only man who threatens the Empire. And the only man Cat has ever loved, blazing in and out of her life like a star.
Desperate for victory, the Empire offers Cat a devastating choice: bring them Valerian or hang. In truth, no choice at all.
But Cat Rose is nothing if not a survivor.
A storm is rising on the Lyrian. What will it leave in its wake?
Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection)
by Rebecca Yarros
The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day contains 13 stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons. The deluxe first edition includes 16 beautiful original full-color illustrations by artist Joe Requeza. This breathtaking collectible is available only in the US and Canada while supplies last.
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