Kristi Chadwick and Marlene Harris

Full of riveting speculative stories, sci-fi/mystery blends, and enchanting fantasy worlds, the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023 provide engrossing reading adventures.

In these fantasy novels, hexologists track down a blackmailer, an auditor of magic investigates a dangerous ritual, and a 15-year-old ghostalker is caught in a locked-castle mystery.

Myths and legends unfold in these forthcoming science fiction and fantasy titles, based on Beowulf, an old Chinese tale, and Greek and Nigerian mythology.

A beguiling prince vanishes and Sleeping Beauty’s fairy godmother takes center stage in these mixed-up tales.

Witches, spaceships, and dragons appear in the most spellbinding and thrilling science fiction and fantasy books of 2022.

Supervillains, an ancient storyteller, gods and monsters. The best science fiction & fantasy novels published in 2020.

Aliens, magical gangsters, and demons welcome here. The best sf and fantasy published in 2019.