The QTL’s Favorite Books To Recommend

Today we have the QTL’s favorite books to recommend! As people who run a book review site, we unsurprisingly get a number of requests for book recommendations. Oftentimes, when people are just getting started in Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror, we like to give them huge genre staples that everyone already knows. But, as the people around us have started to read more and more, we have been getting increasing requests for book recommendations that are a little less known. Well, we have you covered.

Over the last 10 years, we have reviewed over 1000 different books (which feels surreal). Below is a list of 70 books that the QTL team has covered that we feel both deserve more attention and are absolutely worth your time. No matter how well-read in the genre you are, we are sure that there will be at least a few books you haven’t heard of that are worth adding to your TBR list. Every single one of these books is a novel that at least one of us absolutely loved. Come discover your next hidden gem that you can recommend to your friends and family.

• The Dagger And The Coin by Daniel Abraham
• Fetch Phillips Archives by Luke Arnold
• Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
• Twelve Kings in Sharakhai by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
• Jhereg by Steven Brust
• Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick
• Crucible of Chaos by Sebastien de Castell
• Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
• The Greatcoats by Sebastien de Castell
• The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan
• A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
• Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
• The Black Company by Glen Cook
• I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by Marisa Crane
• The Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
• This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
• Leech by Hiron Ennes
• Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
• Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
• The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
• The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan
• Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
• Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
• The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington
• The Will of the Many by James Islington
• A Lush And Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs
• The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• For the Killing of Kings by Howard Andrew Jones
• Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones
• Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
• Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune
• The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood
• Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• Wild Massive by Scott Moore
• Blood of an Exile by Brian Naslund
• Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
• Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
• Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K. J. Parker
• Under My Skin by K.J. Parker
• The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
• Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
• There Is No Anti-Memetics Division  by qntm
• Marrow by Robert Reed
• Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
• The Scarlet Odyssey by C.T. Rwizi
• The Seven Swords by Anthony Ryan
• The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan
• When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson
• Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• Rosewater by Tade Thompson
• The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• The Singing Hills by Nghi Vo
• Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
• Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler
• A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe by Alex White
• Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja