A Fantasy By A Non Caucasian Author

The 2024 #SomethingBookishReadingChallenge - hosted by lipglossmaffia

We're in desperate need of some new fantasy stories. Game of Thrones is great and all, but we've been stuck in a "Faux-Europe Fantasy World Starring Faux-Europeans" rut for a long, long time now. It's been done. Let's move on...

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Blood Like Magic
Blood Like Magic #1

Liselle Sambury

484 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Blood Like Magic

Blood Like Magic #1

Liselle Sambury

484 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Magical Women
Sukanya Venkatraghavan with Shweta Taneja, Sejal Mehta, Trisha Das, Krishna Udayasankar, Kiran Manral, Nikita Deshpande, S. V. Sujatha, Ruchika Roy, Shreya Ila Anasuya, Samhita Arni, Asma Kazi, Tashan Mehta, Shveta Thakrar

232 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Magical Women

Sukanya Venkatraghavan with Shweta Taneja, Sejal Mehta, Trisha Das, Krishna Udayasankar, Kiran Manral, Nikita Deshpande, S. V. Sujatha, Ruchika Roy, Shreya Ila Anasuya, Samhita Arni, Asma Kazi, Tashan Mehta, Shveta Thakrar

232 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tọlá Okogwu

Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Onyeka #1

Tọlá Okogwu

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous fast-paced

Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

Onyeka #1

Tọlá Okogwu

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous fast-paced

Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traoré

Children of the Quicksands
Efua Traoré

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Children of the Quicksands

Efua Traoré

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Fevered Star
Between Earth and Sky #2

Rebecca Roanhorse with Christian Barillas (Narrator), Darrell Dennis (Narrator), Cara Gee (Narrator), Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Narrator), Nicole Lewis (Narrator)

12 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Fevered Star

Between Earth and Sky #2

Rebecca Roanhorse with Christian Barillas (Narrator), Darrell Dennis (Narrator), Cara Gee (Narrator), Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Narrator), Nicole Lewis (Narrator)

12 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan

Heart of the Sun Warrior
The Celestial Kingdom #2

Sue Lynn Tan with Natalie Naudus (Narrator)

13 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Heart of the Sun Warrior

The Celestial Kingdom #2

Sue Lynn Tan with Natalie Naudus (Narrator)

13 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

The Eternal Ones
Deathless #3

Namina Forna

480 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced

The Eternal Ones

Deathless #3

Namina Forna

480 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional medium-paced

Ikenga
Nnedi Okorafor with Ben Onwukwe (Narrator)

6 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous medium-paced

Ikenga

Nnedi Okorafor with Ben Onwukwe (Narrator)

6 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous medium-paced

The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai

The Daughters of Izdihar
The Alamaxa Duology #1

Hadeer Elsbai

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

The Daughters of Izdihar

The Alamaxa Duology #1

Hadeer Elsbai

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem
Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator)

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu with Ken Liu (Translator)

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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