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Jedediah Berry

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Jedediah Berry's latest book is Kill All Wizards, the first in the Barbaric Ledgers series. His novel The Naming Song won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction and was an LA Times Book Prize finalist. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, won the Crawford Award and the Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio 4.

He is the author of numerous stories and interactive works, including The Family Arcana. He is the co-creator, with Andrew McAlpine, of the Wildendrem adventure game setting, which began with the Ennie Award-winning The Valley of Flowers.

Together with his partner, writer Emily Houk, he runs Ninepin Press, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and games in unusual shapes. He lives in Western Massachusett

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2d6 Things About Waste Flowers by Bryn Hammond

I don't plan on doing anything like full-fledged reviews on this blog, but sometimes I'm going to roll two dice and tell you that many things about something I enjoyed reading, playing, or watching. To start off the series, here are some thoughts on Waste Flowers, a novella by Bryn Hammond. Number Rolled: 8

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	The Manual of Detection 3.57 avg rating — 5,176 ratings — published 2009 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Charles Vess (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 1,317 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naming Song 3.78 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2024 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill All Wizards (The Barbaric Ledgers, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 834 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Claire Eddy (Editor), Melissa Frain (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Window or a Small Box 3.55 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family Arcana by Jedediah Berry (Goodreads Author), Eben Kling (Illustrator) 4.55 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valley of Flowers by Jedediah Berry (Goodreads Author), Andrew McAlpine 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parallàxis: Numero 4 by Jedediah Berry (Goodreads Author), Henry James, Andrea Viscusi (Goodreads Author) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devouring Gods (The Barbaric Ledgers, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jedediah Berry

The Barbaric Ledgers (2 books)
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Jedediah Berry (Goodreads Author)

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Wildendrem (1 book)
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Jedediah Berry wrote a new blog post Enter Here Probably you’ve heard of blogs, and this is one of those, and I am starting it right here in the year 2026. Recently I’ve found myself looking for a p Read more of this blog post »
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Jedediah answered a question about The Master of Mazes: Okay.... so, I haven't been able to recall the name of this book OR the characters for years, but have always wanted to remember - and buy it. I kept asking people about "......... it's called Fern something" and all of them (+ seach engines) said "Ah, you're thinking about Ferngully". No. No, I am NOT thinking about Ferngully. THIS is the book I want to own again but specifically with the green cover. Help??? If I remember correctly, the animal friend you’re trying to find in the labyrinth is named Redfern.
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“She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.”
― Jedediah Berry

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“Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

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“The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection

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October 2017 Random Fantasy

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

35 votes, 28.7%

Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

21 votes, 17.2%

The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo

16 votes, 13.1%

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry

8 votes, 6.6%

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