Annie Mare’s Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon Very cute queer romance involving two women in a Lake House situation, where they’re...

  Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent  I do love an epistolary novel, and this one involves the correspondence of a 73 year old woman in Maryl...

  Lois McMaster Bujold’s Testimony of Mute Things The latest Penric and Desdemona novella is set much earlier in their chronology, which is ...

  EK Johnston’s The Sky on Fire   This did turn out to be a sequel to Aetherbound, so I’m glad I reread that one! There is a different main ...

  EK Johnston’s Aetherbound Johnston put out a new book in this world recently, so I figured I’d reread the first one, since all I remembere...

  Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune I was having one of those things where I would get like 20 percent into a book and completely l...

  Rachel Neumeier’s Sekaran The latest book in the Tuyo-verse is basically a series of events in the life of the summer king’s son Sekaran, ...

 Skip Hollandsworth's She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales Back when Longform ...

 Lily King's Writers and Lovers This is another one that is SO good and engrossing even though the plot description sounds like whatever...

  Lily King’s Heart the Lover Ah y’all this was so good. The description makes it sound like an average literary novel—a college student in ...

  Emma Lathen’s Death Shall Overcome The plot here involves a Black man being appointed to an important finance guy role (this was written i...

  Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain I do enjoy a literary sci fi novella, and this one involves major class distincti...

  Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting Omg yall this was EXCELLENT and will one hundred percent be on my favorite books of the year list. It inv...

  K.J. Charles’ All of Us Murderers   Hooray for a new KJ Charles book! This one if a gothic thriller type of book involving a gay man who g...

  Laura Amy Schultz’s The Winter of the Dollhouse I don’t read a ton of middle-grade fiction these days, but I remembered liking books by th...

  Jessica Ellicot’s Murder in an English Village This is the first book in the Beryl and Edwina series—Beryl being a famous American adventu...