Read GLIFF by Ali Smith if you love very near futures, playing with language, befriending horses, undesirables, doing your best with what you have available, defining yourself, the act of naming, piles of books, erasure, surveillance, wording with words, picking through the rubble & rice pudding.

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745579/gliff-by-ali-smith/

Read THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME by Ilona Andrews if you love epic fantasy, metafiction, portal fantasies, fanfiction, political machinations, regeneration, mistaken identity, kindness in a cruel world, turning your hyperfixation into a superpower, magical creatures, hot knights & making soap.

https://torpublishinggroup.com/this-kingdom-will-not-kill-me/

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Read BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker if you love ghost stories, sisters, the end of the world, looking racism in the face, crime scenes, Chinatown, dysfunctional families, blood & guts & viscera, not trusting your own mind, shadows, Pandemic narratives, and dumplings.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bat-eater-and-other-names-for-cora-zeng-kylie-lee-baker

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Read WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher if you love stories about the desperation of starting over, being in the woods, the mind of an artist, obsession, mysteries, creepy crawling bugs literally everywhere, folktales & rumors, art supplies, questioning reality, Devils, body horror & really good biscuits.

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Read EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE by Sarah Maria Griffin if you love losing everything & starting over, lush greenery, decrepit shopping malls, impersonal digital spaces, empty & eerie backrooms, inescapable histories, decaying ecosystems, something rotting, something growing, something watching you...

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Read MOONFLOW by Bitter Karella if you love mushrooms and drugs and women and forests and cults and mushrooms and corpses and cats and women and gods and mushrooms and Gender and glitches and transwomen and corpses and blood and f*cking and mushrooms and mushrooms and mushrooms and...

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Read THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO by Fonda Lee if you love incredible world building, middle aged heroines with bad knees, space colonies, ubiquitous corporate culture, contract killers, terraforming, sacrifices, murder mysteries, intense hierarchies & social contracts, desperation & fresh eggs.

I received an advance copy of this book for review from the publisher.

The expected publication date is May 5, 2026.

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Read THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE by Hester Steel if you love beautiful islands, running away from your life, ancient mysteries, cults, manipulations, abuse narratives, eldritch horrors, fragmented reality, chrysalis & butterflies, figuring out where & how you fit, the rot beneath it all, the incomprehensible & lemons.

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Read THE INTRIGUE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia if you love incredibly charming conmen, once grand families brought low, small towns, terribly flawed people making bad decisions, deep family lore, being forced to play a part, rotting with stagnation, yearning for something greater & torrid affairs.

I received an advance copy of this book for review.

The anticipated publication date is July 14, 2026.

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Read THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar if you love fairy tales, love stories, murder ballads, riddles, the love between sisters, unwanted suitors, getting lost, swan songs, harps, grammar, conjugations, transformations, voices, willow trees, rivers, borderlands & changing course.

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