The Everlasting (2025) is Alix E. Harrow’s fourth novel, after The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and Starling House, all of which I’ve absolutely loved. She is one of the authors that helped me discover that historical fantasy is my jam. I was fortunate that she did an event withinContinue reading “The Everlasting”
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The Shadows Tomorrow
The Shadows Tomorrow, by Noëlle Michel, translated by Frank Wynne (English translation publication day August 4, 2026, originally published in French in 2023) will bring forth concurrent emotions of both despair for humanity and relief that there are some people who still embody goodness. Set in the near future, anthropologist Eva, with a specialty inContinue reading “The Shadows Tomorrow”
We Burned So Bright
We Burned So Bright (publication day April 28, 2026) by T.J. Klune is a short standalone dystopian fantasy that also happens to be uplifting, despite being set at the end of the world because a black hole is coming to swallow the earth. As the book opens, 72-year old Rodney and 78-year old Don, aContinue reading “We Burned So Bright”
Westward Women
Westward Women (publication day March 10, 2026) by Alice Martin is completely unique–speculative fiction, but in an alternate history way. It’s 1973, and an epidemic has gripped the United States at the same time as news of Watergate has broken. Women ages 18-35 are gripped with an itch that’s impossible to satisfy–both internal and external.Continue reading “Westward Women”
The Last Bookstore on Earth
In The Last Bookstore on Earth (pub. date January 7, 2024), by Lily Braun-Arnold, the immaturity and poor choices made by the narrator indicated that it was clearly for a young adult audience. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this queer post-apocalyptic climate fiction, Narrated by Liz, a teenager who is living alone in the bookstore where sheContinue reading “The Last Bookstore on Earth”
The Sound of Stars
The Sound of Stars (2020) by Alechia Dow blew me away! I wish I remembered how I found out about it, given that it’s been out nearly 4 years and I want to read more just like it. Ellie (Janelle) Baker is 17, living in a building in New York with her parents, after anContinue reading “The Sound of Stars”
Klara and the Sun
If you’re interested in a quiet story told from the perspective of an artificially intelligent robot designed to be a companion for socially awkward children, don’t miss Klara and the Sun.
Into the Mist
If you like apocalyptic fiction with a feminist style, with teacher-characters and supernatural elements, I would recommend this one, despite some anti-fat bias.
The Book of Etta
The Book of Etta (2017) by Meg Elison is the second book in The Road to Nowhere series, which begins with The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. We meet Etta/ Eddy, a daughter of Nowhere, the town the Unnamed had come to after her long journey. Etta goes by Eddy when she is out raiding,Continue reading “The Book of Etta”
Finna
Finna (2020) by Nino Cipri is a jewel of a speculative fiction/ horror novella that can be listened to in just three hours! Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Lambda Awards, Cipri gives us Jules and Ava, recent exes who work in the same big-box Swedish furniture store and are accidentally working the sameContinue reading “Finna”
Reading While Fat 