A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of…
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
“Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.” A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new…
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
“People misunderstand. Love is the most powerful force in the world. It can change minds, change hearts, reshape the heavens and the earth. That is why people condemn it, say a woman is stronger without it, but that’s their own fear talking.” Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King,…
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
“Your enemy looking like you—recognizing yourself in your enemy—made it so much worse because it mirrored back to you all the darkness you held.” Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service…
2024 Women in Translation Month
And here we are with another year of Women in Translation recommendations! And I’m proud to say that I have a slightly better balance of Asian to non-Asian authors. It’s not uncommon for this list to be 90% Asian authors with me, so I’m proud of myself, though I’m not really sure if any of…
ASAP by Axie Oh
“Do you mean it?” he asks softly. His fingers around my wrist tighten infinitesimally.“I mean it,” I say. “With my heart, with my body, with my soul.” Sori has worked her whole life to become a K-pop idol, until she realizes she doesn’t want a life forever in the spotlight. But that’s not actually up…
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
“Fear nothing, Luzia Cotado, and you will become greater than them all.” In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering…
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
“Whenever we stumble in life, the most important thing is to really know ourselves—and I don’t just mean in the astrological sense…” In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right…
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does….
The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song
“I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free.” The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her…
The Great Book Wyrm 