Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warlord  Very entertaining third volume as our protagonist makes it to the center of the nomadic lands and has to prov...

  Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warsworn Interesting second volume of this series as they begin their journey to the Plains, but are waylaid by events...

 Elizabeth Vaughan’s  Warprize T. Kingfisher mentioned this book in a recent Reddit AMA, and I do enjoy a fantasy romance that's the sta...

  Shannon Sanders’ The Great Wherever I’m not sure if I can describe this in a way that will explain how good it is—it’s the story of a Blac...

  John Steinbeck’s East of Eden I was mildly peer-pressured into reading this because of the upcoming miniseries with Florence Pugh as Cathy...

  Lydia Millet’s Fair Ones Millet’s latest is interesting, sort of two novels in one, each narrated by one of a pair of friends. The first h...

 Naomi Novik's The Golden Enclaves What a great conclusion to this series! I think I've liked it more on each reread--not that I eve...

  Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate With a lot of trilogies, the second book feels like a place-holder, just kind of setting the pieces for th...

  Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education I was in one of those moods where I had a ton of new books to read and yet wasn’t in the mood for any of ...

  Becky Chambers’ As You Wake, Break the Shell Chambers’ latest took me a minute to get into— it’s a sci-fi story about two women—one, a bot...

  T. Kingfisher’s Daggerbound Look, sometimes you just need to reread a hilarious fantasy romance full of action and great characters, old f...

  Catherine Newman’s Wreck I loved Sandwich , but was not super into this follow-up. The narrator is dealing with a medical problem and also...

  Riley Bauer’s Shut Out When I saw this romance involved the two goalies, and not the rookie who adopted the fifth kitten, I was more than ...

  Riley Bauer’s Breakaway This has one of those SEO subtitles that’s like “an age gap romance” which I was like ugh about, but it’s not gros...

  Riley Bauer’s Tape to Tape Omg the kitten in this one is an orange girl, and MY orange girl cat is sitting on me and purring as I type thi...

  Riley Bauer’s Face Off The second book in this gay hockey series involves two teammates who hate each other (or DO they) but have to co-pa...

 Riley Bauer's Fresh Ice I really MEANT to read the latest Catherine Newman novel next, but then Claire Willett on Bluesky was recommend...

  Catherine Newman’s Sandwich   I’ve been meaning to read this forever, and somehow this late summer season felt like a good time, as it’s a...