The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

The Astral Library

A Novel

Kate Quinn

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · Forthcoming

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?

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Who it’s for
A hidden library turns favorite books into doorways, carrying Alix into literary worlds under threat.
Themes
fantasy, adventure, escape
Pacing
Mixed

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About this book

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures. Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down.

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Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books. The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself?

Worlds Behind Books

A hidden library turns favorite books into doorways, carrying Alix into literary worlds under threat.

Come here for

  • A hidden library where books open doors to new lives
  • Alix and the Librarian fleeing through Austen, Holmes, and Gatsby settings

Expect

  • The Boston Public Library’s reading room and a secret library
  • Regency drawing rooms, Sherlock Holmes’s back alleys, and Gatsby’s parties

Where it sits

Contemporary Fantasy46%
Fantasy Adventure36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Action & Adventure
  • Contemporary Fantasy
  • Fantasy Adventure
  • Literary Fiction
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  • Women's Fiction
  • Magical Realism
Authors
Kate Quinn
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
Forthcoming
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
fantasy · adventure · escape
Reading lane
Action & Adventure