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Emily Varga



Emily Varga is a YA Fantasy author with a fondness for getting lost in bookstores, eating copious amounts of rice, and watching a lot of terrible reality tv. She has lived all over the world, but currently calls the Rocky Mountains of western Canada home, where she lives with her family and their menagerie of pets. When she’s not writing, Emily works as a family lawyer, where she learned more about storytelling than she ever expected.

Emily’s debut novel For She is Wrath is a Pakistani-inspired Count of Monte Cristo retelling.
 


Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
   For She is Wrath (2024)
   The River She Became (2026)
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Award nominations
2025 Waterstones Children's Book Prize (nominee) : For She is Wrath


Emily Varga recommends
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An Ocean Apart (2025)
Jill Tew
"One of my new favorite books! The Selection series for this generation--with sizzling romance, page-turning chemistry, addicting banter, and a baddie main character who must make a heart-wrenching choice. I'm obsessed! The dystopian world is complex and layered as we watch the most dysfunctional version of The Bachelor ever. Tew has written an instant YA classic and is an auto-buy author for me!"
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Hazelthorn (2025)
C G Drews
"CG Drews unleashes a gorgeous atmospheric narrative that rots through the boundaries of YA horror and gives the reader a visceral and unsettling tale of murder, mania, loyalty and a garden with much more bite than you would expect. I loved every single second of this haunting book, and the twists absolutely had me screaming. This is the botanical queer horror that readers never knew they needed."
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To Steal from Thieves (2025)
(Thieves & Kings, book 1)
M K Lobb
"If you took Six of Crows, set it in London during the Great Exhibition & added alchemy, then you'd get M.K. Lobb's To Steal from Thieves. Lobb has written the fast-paced, sexy, magical caper of my dreams - I'm a little jealous of anyone about to experience it for the first time!"

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