Beat the Backlist 2024 - hosted by austinedecker

anthology or omnibus edition
either a collection of short stories or other volumes, as long as they're all bound up together
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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights by Catriona Ward, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Laura Purcell, Natasha Pulley

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights

Catriona Ward, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Laura Purcell, Natasha Pulley

452 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction mystery short stories mysterious medium-paced
The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly

The Amberlough Dossier: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty

The Amberlough Dossier #1-3

Lara Elena Donnelly

1043 pages • digital • 2020

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology by C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders, Claudie Arseneault, RoAnna Sylver

Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology

C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders, Claudie Arseneault, RoAnna Sylver

297 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Joshua Whitehead

194 pages • paperback • 2019

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Best of Beyond the Stars by Jennifer Foehner Wells, Michael Anderle, Patrice Fitzgerald, Susan Kaye Quinn, Samuel Peralta, Ann Christy, Jeff Seymour, G.S. Jennsen, David Adams, Nick Webb

Best of Beyond the Stars

Beyond the Stars: Space Opera Anthologies #5

Jennifer Foehner Wells, Michael Anderle, Patrice Fitzgerald, Susan Kaye Quinn, Samuel Peralta, Ann Christy, Jeff Seymour, G.S. Jennsen, David Adams, Nick Webb

485 pages • 2018

fiction science fiction short stories reflective fast-paced
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

Earthsea: The First Four Books

Earthsea Cycle #1-4

Ursula K. Le Guin

912 pages • paperback • 1984

fiction classics fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Nightblade Epic Volume Two: A Book of Underrealm by Garrett Robinson

The Nightblade Epic Volume Two: A Book of Underrealm

Nightblade Epic #4-6

Garrett Robinson

828 pages • hardcover

fiction fantasy adventurous medium-paced
Fragile Things: Short Fictions & Wonders by Neil Gaiman

Fragile Things: Short Fictions & Wonders

Neil Gaiman

448 pages • paperback • 2006

fiction fantasy horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Ascendant Trilogy by K Arsenault Rivera

The Ascendant Trilogy

Ascendant #1-3

K Arsenault Rivera

1442 pages • digital • 2020

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-4

Douglas Adams

768 pages • paperback • 1986

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous funny fast-paced