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Guest authors curate lists of five books centered on a theme — a common subgenre, a shared trope, an unusual character trait, a specific plot point, or whatever else sparks their imagination!

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Photo of high school lockers

Five Books Where the Real Horror Is High School

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Photo of brightly colored pill capsules

Five Books About Fictional Mind-Altering Drugs

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Illustration of a succubus and an orc standing back to back behind the counter of a coffee and pastry shop, from the cover of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes

5 Books That Worldbuild Through Fashion and Food

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Detail from the cover of Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil

5 SFF Books Featuring Villainous Team-ups

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Detail from the cover of Pedro Domingos' 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire

5 SFF Books About Elections and Technology

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Photo of high school lockers

Five Books Where the Real Horror Is High School

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Photo of brightly colored pill capsules

Five Books About Fictional Mind-Altering Drugs

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Illustration of a succubus and an orc standing back to back behind the counter of a coffee and pastry shop, from the cover of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes

5 Books That Worldbuild Through Fashion and Food

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Detail from the cover of Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil

5 SFF Books Featuring Villainous Team-ups

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Comment number: 12
Detail from the cover of Pedro Domingos' 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire

5 SFF Books About Elections and Technology

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Collection of 5 gothic horror books

Five Books Featuring Horrific Family Inheritances

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Collection of 5 book covers from "middle books" of different SFF trilogies

5 Excellent Middle Books in SFF Trilogies

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Photo of a rose laying on an open book

Five Books With Characters Who Hate Everyone… Except You

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Photo of a pine forest

Rooted in Majesty: 5 Novels Set in Real or Imagined National Parks

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Illustration of three women with glowing eyes; the central figure also has glowing markings on her skin, and lightning crackles behind her. From the cover of Tobi Ogundiran's In the Shadow of the Fall

5 Books Featuring Smaller West African Deities

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Covers of six books that mix SFF with closed-circle mystery

Six Closed Circle Mysteries To Ensnare Your Brain

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This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma.

Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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Collection of 5 book covers of SFF by Korean authors, translated into English

Five Works of Korean SFF in Translation

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Black and white photo of a carousel and carnival booths lit up at night

5 Books About Carnivals That Aren’t All Fun & Games

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Collection of 5 books featuring reincarnated gods

5 SFF Books Featuring Teenaged Reincarnated Deities

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Woodcut print of witches and devils dancing in a circle

5 Books Where the Devil Plays a Central Role

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Photo of a vintage yellow Volkswagen bus on a road, driving away from the camera. The andscape is a desert, with scrub brush at the side of the road and buttes in the background.

5 Books That Prove Travel Is Terrifying

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Photograph of two artist's palettes and a box of other art supplies, including paintbrushes and paint tubes.

Painting With Words: Great Fantasies That Feature Visual Art

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Close-up photo of a statue, depicting one person handing a chalice to another person

5 Books About Regretting That Cult You Joined

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Photo of a map of the United States with several pins placed at various cities

5 SFF Books Set in the American South

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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