The Magicians

Here's a book you won't find in Select Editions, because it's just not our kind of book. But that doesn't mean it's not my kind of book. I've already started pushing it to friends, and you probably will too. It's a hoot.

Lev Grossman, via John Scalzi: What if, as a high school senior, you discovered that there was a secret college for magic, serving only the most brilliant kids in North America? This is in the real world, our world, the one with cell phones and the Internet and Dancing with the Stars and all the rest of it. A lot of things would be different... More.