The Book Eaters (International Edition)

About the Author\nSunyi Dean is an autistic author of fantasy fiction. The Book Eaters is her debut novel. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.\n"I devoured this."―V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue\nAn 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\nOut 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.\nDevon 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.\nBut 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.