“You aren’t an awakening,” I whisper. “You’re the whole dawn. And I can’t believe I ever thought I’d seen the sun before you.” Stolen from Goodreads: Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy, and there’s only one clue to the culprit—a single shamrock. With Coal busy restructuring Christmas—and their dad now having a full midlife crisis…
Love at Second Sight by F.T. Lukens
“Oh, please let a student make a morally dubious decision before lunch so I can eat my square pizza in peace.” Tired of being known as the artsy oddball, fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds hopes to fly under the radar when he changes high schools as a sophomore. It shouldn’t be too hard, considering he’s a human…
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
“No rest for the dead I guess.” Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins―resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories―have only three…
King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair
“You assume I want a wife,” he said. “But I came for a queen.” It was my turn to stare. “So our marriage will be one of pageantry?” “Oh, I think we are both too passionate for that.” Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is…
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
“Ephemerality is often associated with queerness— for many of us, our identities shift over the course of a lifetime. As self-knowledge deepens and expands, we are reborn again and again, and so are our communities.” Growing up, Patricia Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley….
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
“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…
The Great Book Wyrm 