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The Naming Song

Published
Sep 2024
Main Genre
Fantasy Fantasy
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Pages
384

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A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.

"The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page." —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestseller

There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing

When the words went away, the world changed.

All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named—Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names—could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown.

For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future—for the words she carries will reshape the world.

The Naming Song is a book of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.

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Oct 2025 Tor ISBN 1250908027
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First Edition Sep 2024 Tor ISBN 1250907985
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Sep 2024 Tor ISBN 1250908019
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Sep 2024 -- Not Selected ISBN B0CQHM2RV2
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Mar 2025 Titan (UK) ISBN 1835413943
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Sep 2024 -- Not Selected ISBN B0CW3VLWBF
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