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Magic in the title - Extreme Reader 2026

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2026 challenge! Additional category information: • Variations may include magical, magician, magics, magick

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  • Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself headfirst into the world of "single mothers by choice." When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc--her on and off-again…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — F ALLEN-J
  • Black Magic

    What Black Leaders Learned From Trauma and Triumph

    Sanders, Chad,
    When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 305.896073 SA563B 2021
  • An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy--featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many more! Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and…
    Book, 2018New York : Bantam, 2018. — F BOOK
  • Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's…
    Book, 2015New York : Tor, 2015. — F SCHWA-V
  • An illustrated, illuminating history of magic from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its most audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's secret…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 793.809 C7939D 2021
  • If a computer could help you wield your own magic... would you use it? When Seven Jones enrolls at a San Diego community college to appease her parents, the last thing she wants to do is join some stupid club. And she certainly doesn't expect to…
    Book, 2025London : Angry Robot, 2025. — F SHIPT-L
  • Fritzi is a champion. After escaping the clutches of Dieter Kirch, the sadistic leader of the witch hunters, Fritzi and Otto have taken refuge among the witches of the Black Forest. Fritzi is finally ready to assume her place on the council as the…
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024] — YF RAASC-S
  • Yael Clauneck is the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. They're on the precipice of a predetermined life when they flee their own graduation party, galloping away in search of...well,…
    Book, 2025New York : Del Rey, 2025. — F PACTO-J
  • Magic Can't Save Us

    Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

    Denslow, Josh,
    Many relationships are doomed from the start. But what if there was a way to save them? The characters in Magic Can't Save Us think they may have the answers-why visit a human counselor when you could spend the night in a house haunted by a…
    Book, 2025New Orleans : University of New Orleans Press, 2025. — F DENSL-J
  • When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to…
    Book, 2019New York : Tor, 2019. — F GAILE-S
  • From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona…
    Book, 2023New York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YF MAGIC
  • Reluctantly giving up her California practice working with troubled children, Julia Cates is forced to draw on all her skills to deal with a young mute girl found abandoned and terrified in her Pacific Northwest hometown.
    Book, 2006New York : Ballantine Books, 2006 — F HANNA-K
  • Growing up brilliant and curious in Alabama, Scooter was told he was destined for greatness. Now newly married and a graduate student in humanities at New York University, he goes about discovering just what he is destined to be great at. Anchored…
    Book, 2005New York : Pantheon Books, [2005] — F MURRA-A
  • Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria…
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — F HOFFM-A
  • Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
    Book, 2008New York : Delacorte Press, [2008] — YF SCOTT-M
  • The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides…
    Book, 2021New York : Scribner, 2021. — F TOIBI-C
  • Long ago and faraway (and somewhere south of France), lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance with Oxatania, and to that end,…
    Book, 2025New York : Ace, 2025. — F SACHA-L
  • It is 1912, and for the last seventy years magic has all but disappeared from the world. Yet magic is all Biddy has ever known. Orphaned as a baby, Biddy grew up on Hy-Brasil, a legendary island off the coast of Ireland hidden by magic and glimpsed…
    Book, 2023New York : Redhook, an imprint of Orbit, 2023. — F PARRY-H
  • Mochi Magic

    50 Traditional and Modern Recipes for the Japanese Treat

    Becker, Kaori,
    Food writer Kaori Becker's easy-to-follow techniques for creating and cooking with mochi deliver the perfect mix of fun and tradition.
    Book, 2020North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2020] — 641.5952 B3886M 2020
  • Night Magic

    Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

    Henion, Leigh Ann,
    In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit. Because no matter…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an imprint of Workman Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2024. — 635.953 HENION 2024