Genre Study: Speculative Mystery

Our 2026-2027 genre study provides an overview of genre blends in fiction by looking at key authors, tropes, and themes.

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Genre Blends: Speculative Mystery 

The Speculative Mystery meeting will be on Thursday, June 4th from 2-4pm in-person at the Skokie Public Library.  Read two books within this genre. Below is a list of suggestions; feel free to choose your own as well!

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Out of Air by Rachel Reiss (YA)

The Storyteller’s Death by Ana Davila Cardinal

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older

Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal