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The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.

Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha’s Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.

With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.”

Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.

In Karim Dimechkie’s “The Uproar,” the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.

Joe Westmoreland captures the pleasures and pains of American wanderlust in his forgotten classic “Tramps Like Us.”

Her lawyers urged that she keep her testimony short. With legal victories in hand, she’s sharing her life story, and what it was like on the stand.

In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.

Catherine Lacey’s “The Möbius Book” is both an elliptical novella and a seething memoir. Decoding the connections is at once frustrating and exhilarating.

Dennard Dayle’s satirical new book, “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier.