Books: the poppy war The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin