Tamora Pierce’s First Test Sometimes you just want to reread a series about a little girl who wants to train to be a knight and will try s...

  Meg Elison’s Foundling Fathers Elison’s satirical novella is the perfect read for the year 2026. It involves a group of wealthy right-wing...

  Ursula LeGuin’s Gifts I remembered really liking this the first time I read it, but found it a little stressful this time! I was planning...

  Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch I do like books involving WWII, magic, time travel, and a solid romance (Connie Willis 4-eva) so this was defi...

  Naomi Kritzer’s Obstetrix Y’all, I just read this all in one sitting and it was so tense and good and TENSE. It involves an obstetrician, ...

  Lois McMaster Bujold’s Darksight Dare Yay for a new Penric and Desdemona novella! Though really the main characters are a blind young army...

  KJ Charles’ An Unsuitable Heir Pretty solid wrap up to this trilogy—once again I have a slightly hard time suspending my disbelief on the ...

  KJ Charles’ An Unnatural Vice The second book in the Sins of the Cities books involves one of the friends from the first book, a journalis...

 KJ Charles' An Unseen Attraction KJ Charles has a huge backlist I haven't read yet, and I was in the mood for a queer romance and/o...

Mary Soon Lee's The Sign of the Dragon I've heard so many good things about this book, and it lived up to the hype! I'd put off ...

  Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear Y’all, I do NOT know how to feel about this book! It’s very well-written! Banger of an ending! But I felt l...

 Lois McMaster Bujold's The Paladin of Souls In the sequel to The Curse of Chalion , the focus is on forty-year-old Ista, who decides to...

  Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion I think I love this book more every time I read it! It’s just the perfect blend of political i...

  Clare Ashton’s The Goodmans So the premise of this romance novel is that lesbian doctor Abby has been in love with her best friend Jude (a...

  Emma Straub’s American Fantasy Straub’s latest involves a BOY BAND CRUISE and is very fun! There are three POV characters—a woman who runs...

  Melissa Albert’s The Children So this book is about a woman who wrote a bestselling series of fantasy books based on her children, then tr...

  T. Kingfisher’s Daggerbound Do I… have a new favorite T. Kingfisher book??? Y’allllllllllll. The sequel to Swordheart involves the second ...