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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Read OLD SOUL by Susan Barker if you love a story told through interviews, mysteries, portrait photography, malevolent presences, immortals, grief & abuse narratives, exploring cities, new identities, the female gaze, strangers, digging deep into old wounds & the desire to survive at all costs.

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Read THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow if you love how stories are created, lady knights, making myths, quests, propaganda machines, time travel, scars, always finding each other, genderfuckery, broken & dislikable people doing their best, interesting interpersonal dynamics & rewriting history.

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Read THIS GILDED ABYSS by Rebecca Thorne if you love old loves, old wounds, old griefs, militaristic societies, strict & violent hierarchies, horizontal cities, giant ships, rose gold, dangerous outbreaks, sapphic longing twinged with bitterness, film photography & Leviathans.

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Read THE BIG M (13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause) edited by Lidia Yuknavitch if you love personal essays, feeling seen, reclaimed narratives, transitions, vastly different experiences, speaking the unspeakable, the many ways through, finding meaning through storytelling & shape-shifting.

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My current favorite scifi worldbuilding:

Becky Chambers' WAYFARERS
Ada Palmer's TERRA IGNOTA
Karen Lord's CYGNUS BETA
Claire North's SLOW GODS

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Read SLOW GODS by Claire North if you love intimate world building, hard scifi, reincarnation (of sorts), neurodivergent protagonists, the Evils of Capitalism, what lays hidden in the dark, the end of the world, the importance of our past & stories, the quirks of language, and the meaning of life & love.

(I received a copy of this book for review).

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Read LUCY UNDYING by Kiersten White if you love Dracula, retellings, queer stories, horrific mothers, losing yourself, intertwining narratives, epistolary stories, men doing horrific things, butter chicken, cults, trauma responses, intense longing, going to therapy & histories soaked in blood.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736804/lucy-undying-by-kiersten-white/

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