Books like Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

A historian uncovers an alchemical manuscript that awakens a hidden world of witches, vampires, and daemons in Oxford, compelling her to confront long‑held fears and a forbidden romance.

A tale of witches, neurosurgeons, and secrets in New Orleans, exploring the power of the past and the present.

In Victorian London, a brave young society girl stumbles into the mystery of Jack the Ripper, weaving history, detective work, and Gothic intrigue into a gripping YA suspense.

Evie O'Neill discovers she has supernatural abilities while navigating the seedy underworld of 1920s New York City.

Batman faces a brutal murder and a mysterious killer whale in Gotham City, forcing him to confront the city's most powerful and dangerous criminals.

Ellen Datlow’s anthology reimagines classic fairy tales with a feminist twist, swapping villains and updating characters across 19 stories in an inventive, contemporary American fantasy setting.

A masterful spy thriller set during World War II, Agent Garbo tells the true story of Juan Pujol, a Barcelona poultry farmer who rose to become one of the most brilliant spies in history.

Suzanne Brockmann’s "Born to Darkness" is a fiction thriller that examines the intersection of U.S. special forces, drug–control efforts and cartel power struggles, while delving into hormonal influences and man‑woman dynamics.

A New York Times bestseller exploring motivation, psychology, and happiness, written by bestselling author Brendon Burchard.

A romance novel set in Montana featuring a surgeon who struggles with emotions and a therapist dog's love for his patients.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Isbetta -- Izzy to her friends -- had happy memories from when she was very young, and her father had been one of the greatest Bards in the land. But that was before she was given over to a foster mother who raised her in poverty, apprenticing her to a weaver. Izzy had looked forward to being free of both her apprenticeship and her foster mother, when she could make her own living as a weaver, and that time was only nineteen days away.Then a new ruler seized the throne of her country by force, and Izzy and her friend Giraud, only surviving heir of an out-of-favor Lord, were running for their lives. They would be pursued by assassins, captured by a monster who demanded that they free it from a curse, make friends with a dwarf, and be entrusted with a spell that was supposed to remake the world into a paradise -- a spell with a fatal flaw. And Izzy would find that her father had not abandoned her, but had been murdered by a mysterious figure known as the Black Heron. Determined to find the Black Heron, she would search using her newly discovered powers as a Bard. Unfortunately, she lacked any Bardic training, and was much too powerful a Bard for her own good -- and perhaps, for the good of the whole world.