Fantasy in 2026 runs the whole register: dragon war college blockbusters, sapphic vampire epics, medieval horror pilgrimages and romantasy that outsells everything else in the store. These 8 earned their hype. Every pick links to our full preview, trailer included.
Quick picks:
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros: our preview + trailer
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab: our preview + trailer
- The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden: our preview + trailer
How we picked
Every book here lives on the Curatsy Bookshelf, our library of the 120 most talked-about new books, each with a full preview and an original thirty-second cinematic trailer. For this list we weighed reader buzz, author track record and how hard the premise refuses to leave your head. We only feature books we would hand to a friend.
1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Past the edge of every map, something older than dragons is stirring.
The Empyrean's third flight, the fastest-selling adult novel in two decades. Past the edge of every map, something older than dragons is stirring.
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→ Get it on Amazon2. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Three women. Five centuries. One hunger.
Three women across five centuries, bound by the same hunger. Schwab's sapphic vampire epic is as gorgeous as promised.
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→ Get it on Amazon3. The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Somewhere between the trenches, there is a hotel that should not exist.
A nurse searches WWI Flanders for her brother while a fiddler makes deals in a hotel that should not exist.
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→ Get it on Amazon4. Innamorata by Ava Reid
In the house of teeth, love is a haunting.
Reid's gothic romantasy: lush, dangerous and impossible to put down quietly.
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→ Get it on Amazon5. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
A disgraced knight crosses plague-ruined 1348 France.
A knight, an orphan and plague-era France where the war in heaven has spilled onto the road. Dark fantasy at full power.
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→ Get it on Amazon6. Riftborne by Bree Grenwich and Parker Lyle
The rift chose her. The enemy commander chose her too.
The chart-topping romantasy: chosen by a rift, wanted by the enemy.
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→ Get it on Amazon7. Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen
Bound to a fury. Neither of them is sorry.
A fury claims her mortal and the argument about it is half the fun.
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→ Get it on Amazon8. The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley
Paris, 1870. The theatre's stars have not aged in a century.
A theatre troupe of vampires in 1870 Paris, surviving on discretion until reckless newcomers start leaving corpses in public.
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