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Gilead
2004

Tree of Smoke
2007

Embracing Defeat
1999

Shadow Country
2008

The Known World
2003

The haunted land
1995

The Obelisk Gate
2016

Hominids
2002

The Uplift War
1987

SLAN
1946

Some Desperate Glory
2022

Darwin's radio
1999

The Terminal Experiment
1995

A Master of Djinn
2021

Saint of Bright Doors
2023

Ramona and Her Father
1977

Call It Courage
1940

When You Reach Me
2009

Tar Beach
1991

Remember When
1996

A killing in Amish country
2016

Lirael Daughter of the Clayr
2001

salt slow
2019

The Secret Romantic's Book of Magic
2025