The Book Eaters

"I devoured this."--V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

An International Bestseller
An NPR Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022
A BookPage Best Book of 2022
A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon--like all other book-eater women--is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger--not for books, but for human minds.

Author: Sunyi Dean
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.37w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781250810182

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 13
Publishers Weekly 04/04/2022
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 46
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 08/05/2022

About the Author
Dean, Sunyi: - Sunyi Dean is an autistic SFF writer, and mother of two. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.