Catalog

Stephen King

A time-traveling teacher tries to stop the Kennedy assassination — and learns the past does not want to be changed.

George Orwell

Surveillance, doublethink, and a state that controls the past by controlling the present. The dystopia everyone quotes and few outrun.

adapted from George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti

Orwell’s surveillance-state classic, rendered in stark, oppressive graphic form.

Bethany C. Morrow

The companion to A Song Below Water, told from the siren cast as the villain of the last book’s story.

Anthony Burgess

Ultraviolence, invented slang, and a state that would rather erase your free will than let you keep choosing evil.

Becky Chambers

A tea monk and a robot walk into the wilderness. Hopepunk that actually earns the hope.

Roseanne A. Brown

The conclusion to A Song of Wraiths and Ruin — gods, rebellion, and a kingdom on the edge.

Bethany C. Morrow

Sirens hiding in plain sight in modern Portland, and the Black girl learning to stop hiding hers.

David Chart · Green Ronin

Deeper setting material for running full campaigns in the Song of Ice and Fire world.

Mark Simmons · Green Ronin

A starter sourcebook for running political, low-magic intrigue in Westeros.

Roseanne A. Brown

A crown prince and a girl seeking vengeance, both hunting the same magical prize, in a West African-inspired fantasy capital.

James S.A. Corey

A massive alien ring opens beyond Uranus. The Expanse, book three.

Jeff VanderMeer

The Southern Reach trilogy closes, and Area X’s origins finally start to surface — sideways, as ever.

Jason Bulmahn · Paizo

Deep-dive sourcebook for building and playing dozens of fantasy ancestries in 1E Pathfinder.

Alexander Macris · Autarch

Old-school fantasy that keeps going after the dungeon — build a keep, rule a domain, become the thing later adventurers raid.

Neil Gaiman

Old gods, forgotten and starving, gather for a storm against the new gods of media and technology. A road trip through the myths America actually believes in.

George Orwell

A barnyard revolution curdles into the exact tyranny it replaced. Fable-length, still sharp.

Jeff VanderMeer

Four women enter Area X. Something about the border, and about them, is not what it seems. Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy.

Jeff VanderMeer

The bureaucracy trying to understand Area X turns out to be just as strange as the zone itself. Southern Reach, book two.

James S.A. Corey

The Belt rises in open rebellion. The Expanse, book six.

Chaosium

The percentile-based engine underneath Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and a dozen other classics — the toolkit itself.

Rebecca Roanhorse

A pre-Columbian-inspired fantasy of prophecy, politics, and a god who might be returning to a world that isn’t ready.

José Saramago

A sudden epidemic of blindness strips a city down to its rawest instincts, for better and much worse.

Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle

A rhythmic, repeating parade of colorful animals — one of the best first read-alouds there is.

Ezra Claytan Daniels / Ben Passmore

A fashion designer moves into a gentrifying neighborhood’s cheapest apartment — and finds the building itself has a horrifying appetite.

James S.A. Corey

The protomolecule crisis spreads to Venus, and the crew of the Rocinante gets pulled deeper in. The Expanse, book two.

Esphyr Slobodkina

A peddler naps under a tree and wakes to find monkeys have stolen every cap he owns. A classic of the picture-book shelf.

Davis Chenault · Troll Lord Games

A monster-and-loot companion built for Castles & Crusades’ easy, old-school-flavored ruleset.

Aiden Thomas

A trans boy determined to prove himself as a brujo accidentally summons the wrong ghost — and falls for him instead.

Leslie Marmon Silko

A mixed-ancestry WWII veteran returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation and finds healing only through his people’s oldest stories. A cornerstone of Native American literature.

James S.A. Corey

Humanity’s first colony on a world beyond the ring gate, and the fight over who gets to claim it. The Expanse, book four.

Antony Johnston

A post-apocalyptic desert world, generations after ’The Big Wet,’ where survival means never trusting the ground beneath you.

Jeff VanderMeer

A city built from interlocking stories, footnotes, and mysteries — the foundational text of the Ambergris cycle.

various, orig. Robert E. Howard

The sword-and-sorcery original — Conan’s brutal, wandering adventures across the Hyborian Age.

Mike Pondsmith · R. Talsorian Games

The dystopian megacorp noir that the whole genre keeps circling back to. Style over survival, always.

Adib Khorram

A Persian-American teen visits Iran for the first time, wrestling with depression, identity, and an unlikely new friendship.

Reni K. Amayo

West African-inspired fantasy of two sisters, torn apart at birth, whose reunion could save or shatter their kingdom.

Tracy Hickman · TSR

Classic AD&D adventure compilation — pyramids, curses, and desert peril from one of the genre’s formative designers.

Justina Ireland

The dead rose at Gettysburg. A Black girl trained to fight zombies navigates a Reconstruction-era America that still won’t see her as free.

Frank Herbert

Desert planet, spice, prophecy, empire. The science fiction novel most other science fiction novels are still arguing with.

Tom Moldvay · TSR

The red-box-era Basic Set that introduced a generation to the hobby. Simple, clean, foundational.

Aaron Allston · TSR

The classic-era D&D ruleset compiled into one dense, beloved volume — a cornerstone of OSR nostalgia.

Rob Boyle · Posthuman Studios

Post-singularity horror-sf: swap bodies, question what’s left of you, and investigate the conspiracy that ended the old solar system.

Kacen Callender

A Black trans teen navigates first love, identity, and a cruel act of transphobia aimed straight at him.

Don Turnbull · TSR

The monster book that gave 1st-edition AD&D some of its weirdest, most memorable creatures.

Jeff Grubb · TSR

AD&D 2E-era sourcebook for the Forgotten Realms — a snapshot of the setting before decades of further lore piled on.

Daniel Clowes

Two acerbic teenage girls drift apart in the last summer before adulthood catches up with them.

Tamsyn Muir

Lesbian necromancers in space, sword-fighting their way through a haunted gothic palace. Exactly as fun as that sounds.

Jael Richardson

A dystopia built on generational debt — a girl born owing a system that was never built to let her pay it off.

Stjepan Šejić (DC Comics)

A psychiatrist named Harleen Quinzel falls for her most dangerous patient. A painterly, character-driven origin for Harley Quinn.

various

Travel through time in this sword-clashing adventure spanning over a hundred years from the 1860s to the beginning of the first movie. In the thirty years since its release, Highlander has inspired a cult following and numerous spinoffs with its epic clashes between powerful immortals. Now, The American Dream follows Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod as he navigates through the American Civil War and 1950s Manhattan toward The Gathering in 1986.

N. Scott Momaday

A young Pueblo man returns from WWII fractured between worlds. Won the Pulitzer and helped launch the Native American Renaissance.

Tatsuhide Matsuoka

Read sideways so the animals leap up the page — a frog, a kitten, a fish, and finally a little girl all jump along. A beloved interactive board book for babies and toddlers.

Tracy Deonn

A grieving Black teen discovers a secret society re-fighting the Arthurian legends underneath her college campus.

James S.A. Corey

A detective, a doomed ice hauler, and a protomolecule that changes everything. Book one of The Expanse.

Gloria Naylor

A conjure woman on a Georgia sea island, and the niece pulled back home by a magic she doesn’t believe in yet.

Pelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr · Free League

A doom-metal picture book of an RPG. The world is ending, your character probably won’t survive, and it will look gorgeous the whole way down.

Emil Ferris

A ten-year-old horror-obsessed girl in 1960s Chicago investigates her neighbor’s murder, sketchbook in hand. A dazzling, singular graphic novel.

James S.A. Corey

The Rocinante’s crew splits up right as the solar system’s fragile peace shatters. The Expanse, book five.

Erick Wujcik · Palladium Books

Palladium’s martial-arts-and-espionage toolkit — build a whole dojo’s worth of fighting styles.

Tracy Hickman · TSR

An Egyptian-flavored AD&D module — tombs, traps, and ancient royal secrets.

Wizards of the Coast

The tactical-combat era of D&D — powers, grids, and set-piece battles built like a board game.

Gareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)

A gorgeously illustrated adaptation of Poe’s best-known stories and poems — The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and more.

Alan Moore

A college student becomes host to an ancient imagination-goddess in this occult-drenched superhero epic.

Alan Moore

The Promethea saga deepens — magic, myth, and metafiction collide.

Jordan Ifueko

Bound by magic to kill the prince she’s sworn to protect — a West African-inspired YA fantasy of found family and impossible loyalty.

Kevin Siembieda · Palladium Books

Dimensional rifts tore the world open and everything came through — dragons next to power armor next to demons. Utter, glorious chaos.

Kevin Siembieda · Palladium Books

The updated core rulebook for Rifts’ dimension-spanning, anything-goes post-apocalypse.

P. Djèlí Clark

Three Black women hunt literal demons wearing the Ku Klux Klan’s hoods in 1920s Georgia. Dark fantasy with real teeth.

Catalyst Game Labs

Cyberpunk and high fantasy collide: megacorps, street samurai, and elves running the shadows of a neon-soaked future.

Shelley Parker-Chan

A peasant girl steals her dead brother’s identity and his fate: greatness. A queer reimagining of the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

Kristen Hall-Geisler

A contemporary novel of family secrets, motorcycles, and figuring out who you are when the map you were given turns out to be wrong.

Jennifer Dugan

A closeted beauty queen and an out-and-proud track star fall for each other despite everything working against it.

Alison Bechdel

Bechdel writes herself into fiction alongside characters from Dykes to Watch Out For, decades later, in small-town Vermont.

Christian Moore · Last Unicorn Games

Explore strange new worlds under a d6 system built specifically for Trek-flavored diplomacy and away missions.

Greg Costikyan · West End Games

The original Star Wars RPG, back when the galaxy far away only had three movies to draw from. A formative piece of tabletop history.

Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz, Esau & Isaac Escorza

The last surviving Turtle, decades after losing his brothers, wages one final war on the empire that took them.

Dean Atta

A mixed-race, queer teen finds himself through drag in this verse novel about claiming space to be fully seen.

N.K. Jemisin

New York City comes alive as six human avatars to fight an eldritch enemy that wants the city dead before it’s born.

Ursula K. Le Guin

An ambiguous utopia. The anarchist moon Anarres, the capitalist world Urras, and the physicist caught between.

Alison Bechdel

Decades of Bechdel’s beloved, cult-favorite comic strip chronicling a circle of lesbian friends, collected in one volume.

N.K. Jemisin

A world of catastrophic, apocalypse-cycle geology, and the people with the power to cause or calm it. Opens the Broken Earth trilogy.

Isaac Asimov

The collapse of a galactic empire, predicted centuries in advance by mathematics — and the secret plan to shorten the coming dark age.

adapted from Lois Lowry, art by P. Craig Russell

A boy is chosen to inherit a community’s suppressed memories — and discovers exactly what "perfect" cost everyone else.

Eric Carle

A ladybug picks fights all day long with animals much bigger than she is. A gentle lesson about manners, Carle-style.

Ursula K. Le Guin

An envoy is sent to a world where people have no fixed gender. A foundational work of feminist and queer science fiction.

Ram V / Filipe Andrade

Death herself is fired and reincarnated as a mortal girl, tasked with watching over the man destined to make humanity immortal.

Colson Whitehead

Two Black boys survive a brutal Jim-Crow-era reform school in this Pulitzer-winning novel.

Gareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)

Homer’s epic homeward voyage, adapted into sweeping, cinematic comics pages.

Samantha Shannon

A doorstop of a standalone fantasy: dragons, queens, and a world that mistook its protector for its enemy.

Robert Jones Jr.

A tender, devastating love story between two enslaved men on a Deep South plantation.

Annie Proulx

A hapless man rebuilds his life in a windswept Newfoundland fishing town. Pulitzer and National Book Award winner.

Stephen King

A weaponized flu wipes out 99% of humanity, and the survivors sort themselves into the armies of good and evil.

Jeff VanderMeer

A bioengineered bird flees a ruined city in this Borne-universe novella of strange, ecological horror.

Eric Carle

A tiny caterpillar eats his way through the week and turns into something beautiful. Essential first-library material.

Robert Kirkman

Rick’s group keeps surviving the dead — and each other — in this long-running zombie-apocalypse series.

Robert Kirkman

The group encounters the most horrifying survivors they’ve faced yet — other people.

Robert Kirkman

The walled community faces a herd it might not survive.

Charles M. Ryan · Wizards of the Coast

d20-era adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic — channel the One Power, dodge the Dark One’s reach. Highly sought after collector’s item at this point.

Tommy Orange

Twelve Native characters converge on the Big Oakland Powwow in this kaleidoscopic, National Book Critics Circle-winning debut.

Alan Moore

A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against a fascist future Britain. A cornerstone of political comics.

Green Ronin

Grim, low-fantasy survival in the Warhammer world — your character is disposable and the setting wants you to know it.

Alan Moore

Superheroes, aged and compromised, in a Cold War world that never needed saving as much as it thinks it does. The book that broke the genre open.

Ella Cara Deloria

A Dakota Sioux ethnologist’s novel following one woman through the everyday and the extraordinary of Sioux life.

Walter Scott

A struggling art-school painter navigates ego, ambition, and bad decisions in this sharp, funny series.

Nikos Kazantzakis

A buttoned-up intellectual and a force-of-nature laborer test each other’s philosophies on a Cretan hillside.