“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk. If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.” You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being…
The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin
“Your first time working with the clay will be a shock. Don’t try to be perfect, just think about getting sixty percent of the way there. No more, no less, just sixty percent.” After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one…
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire
“Stories had to have beginnings, which meant someone had to be where they were beginning, or there was no purpose to them. She was just at the beginning of a story, that was all, and this was perfectly possible.” Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the…
Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver
“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.” Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It’s a simpler life: head…
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
“From the very start, you had all the power. From the very start, I was in the palm of your hand.” Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from…
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.” Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in…
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
“You get one chance to form your own squad, and you choose your ex, your current lover, the quadrant’s resident smart-ass, two people who have tried to kill you in the past year—one over said current lover—and whatever Dain is? These are your choices for the most important mission any rider could possibly undertake?” After…
Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan
“Being good and being brave are not the same. A compassionate coward can inflict as much damage as any villain.” As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s…
Waiting for Spring by Anashin
Mitsuki is a shy girl who’s about to enter high school, and vows to open herself up to new friendships. Of course, the four stars of the boys’ basketball team weren’t exactly the friends she had in mind! Yet, when they drop by the café where she works, the five quickly hit it off. Soon…
Love Me, Love Me Not by Io Sakisaka
“Just a little bit, I want to be influenced by her. Yuna is amazing.” Fast friends Yuna and Akari are complete opposites: Yuna is an idealist while Akari is a realist. When lady-killer Rio and the oblivious Kazuomi join their ranks, love and friendship become quite complicated! I’m not going to lie. This is a…
The Great Book Wyrm 