The Book Nerd Holiday Gift Guide: Fantasy, Romantasy, and Sci-Fi Books

Fantasy, romantasy, and sci-fi young adult books YULE love to give this holiday!

Immortal Consequences: A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick

Immortal Consequences: A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick

Six students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the only escape—and love can cross the boundaries between life and death.

A Forgery of Fate

A Forgery of Fate

A breathtaking romantic fantasy inspired by Beauty and the Beast about a girl who paints the future and a cursed dragon lord, bound by love and deception in a plot to bring down the gods.

The Book of Dust:  La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)

Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of His Dark Materials to expand on the story of Lyra, “one of fantasy’s most indelible heroines” (The New York Times Magazine).

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom

By Amélie Wen Zhao

Coming 02.03.26

In a world at war with demons, one girl will face the ultimate test when she is forced to enter into an ancient, deadly competition for the chance to save her mother’s soul . . . before she loses her forever. From the author of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night comes the beginning of a dark and opulent fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Throne of Glass.

The Thirteenth Child

The Thirteenth Child

Drawing on the Grimm Brothers’ dark fairytale “Godfather Death,” this sweeping novel from the author of House of Salt and Sorrows is a fantastical saga of actions and consequences.

Blood at the Root

Blood at the Root

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in the debut of a fresh fantasy series unlike anything you’ve seen before.

More Fantasy, Romantasy, and Sci-Fi Books to Gift

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