Keeping up with patron demand is always one of your highest priorities – and biggest challenges. Our End of Year Sale is a great time to maximize your collection development dollars and serve more readers for less, including on incredibly popular books like Fourth Wing and Iron Flame.  

Many libraries see a jump in circulation at the start of January as users with new devices discover Libby and your digital collection for the first time, or patrons turn to their local library to help turn their resolutions into reality.  

Start prepping now with our End of Year Sale! This list of readalikes is perfect for those patrons who have already read the big titles and are looking for more as well as for those users who are on hold and want to read something similar while they wait.

Liked Fourth Wing? Read A Promise of Fire next 

About A Promise of Fire:  

Cat Fisa isn’t who she pretends to be. She’s perfectly content living disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus, avoiding the destiny the Gods—and her dangerous family—have saddled her with. As far as she’s concerned, the magic humming within her blood can live and die with her. She won’t be a pawn in anyone’s game. 

But then she locks eyes with an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south and her illusion of safety is shattered forever. 

Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker—the woman who divines truth through lies—and he wants her to be a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm. Kidnapping her off the street is simple enough, but keeping her by his side is infuriatingly tough. Cat fights him at every turn, showing a ferocity of spirit that burns hot…and leaves him desperate for more. But can he ever hope to prove to his once-captive that he wants her there by his side as his equal, his companion…and maybe someday, his Queen? 

Save on ebook of A Promise of Fire on sale here 

Liked You Shouldn’t Have Come Here? Read Midnight is the Darkest Hour next 

About Midnight is the Darkest Hour: 

In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners’ bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep in the swamp next to mysterious carved symbols, Bottom Springs is thrown into uproar—and Ruth realizes only she and Everett, an old friend with a dark past, have the power to comb the town’s secret underbelly in search of true evil. 

A dark and powerful novel like fans have come to expect from Ashley Winstead, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is an examination of the ways we’ve come to expect love, religion, and stories to save us, the lengths we have to go to in order to take back power, and the monstrous work of being a girl in this world. 

Save on ebook of Midnight is the Darkest Hour on sale here 

Liked Assistant to the Villain? Read A Letter to Three Witches next 

About A Letter to Three Witches: 

Nearly a century ago, Gwen Engel’s great-great-grandfather cast a spell with catastrophic side-effects. As a result, the Grand Council of Witches forbade his descendants from practicing witchcraft. The Council even planted anonymous snitches called Watchers in the community to report any errant spellcasting…

Yet magic may still be alive and not so well in Zenobia. Gwen and her cousins, Trudy and Milo, receive a letter from Gwen’s adopted sister, Tannith, informing them that she’s bewitched one of their partners and will run away with him at the end of the week. While Gwen frets about whether to trust her scientist boyfriend, currently out of town on a beetle-studying trip, she’s worried that local grad student Jeremy is secretly a Watcher doing his own research.

Cousin Trudy is so stressed that she accidentally enchants her cupcakes, creating havoc among her bakery customers—and in her marriage. Perhaps it’s time the family took back control and figured out how to harness their powers. How else can Gwen decide whether her growing feelings for Jeremy are real—or the result of too many of Trudy’s cupcakes? 

Save on ebook of A Letter to Three Witches on sale here 

Find all these books and more in our End of Year Sale 

Between now and December 31st, you can save up to 50% on all these books and more. To help you get started shopping, we’ve put together some lists: 

For those patrons looking forward to cozying up by the fire with a movie, don’t miss out on our Kanopy offer happening now: Libraries* that add Pay Per Use (PPU) will get the 1st full month FREE. But hurry – this offer is only good through December 22nd, 2023!   

Looking for even more ways to maximize your budget at the end of the year? View all of our options to diversity your collection for less here.  

*Kanopy offer valid for new customers and PLUS-only customers in the United States and Canada.