Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder – Subgenres

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Welcome to our last Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder!

Every Monday throughout Wyrd and Wonder, we’ve been recommending a fantasy read in five words.

For this last week, we’re each picking a sub-genre we enjoy, and recommending a title from it!

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Underlined book titles in bold contain links to reviews on this site.

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Nils:

The Hand of the Sun King by JT Greathouse – Coming of Age

Scholarly

Mystical

two

cultures

collide 

 

Gray:

Sacred Cat Island by Harmon Cooper LitRPG

Animal

Crossing

but

a

book

 

Theo:

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Fantasy of Manners

Gentle

hero

finds

his

path

 

Dorian: 

The Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft. Steampunk

Timid

professor’s

incredible

heroic

journey

Beth:

Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin Arthuian

Under-dog

knight’s

misadventures

in

Camelot

 

Nils:

Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro Historical

Can

a

hero

be

evil?

 

Beth:

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang Wuxia

Brutal

reimagining

of the

Sino-Japanese

War

 

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We hope you’ve enjoyed our series of Top Five for Wyrd and Wonder as much as we’ve enjoyed compiling them!

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