📚 Keeper of Lost Children by: Sadeqa Johnson Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 People Like Us by: Jason Mott In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Otherworldly by: Dwain Worrell Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer, not an addict. At least, that's what she tells herself. She's always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It by: Ellen Jones An eye-opening and essential look at the discrimination still faced by LGBTQIA+ people today, woven throughout with moving and jaw-dropping personal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes: a Graphic Novel (Dog Man #14): from the Creator of Captain Underpants by: Dav Pilkey The celebration comes to a halt for our heroes in Dog Man: Big Jim Believes when the mischievous Space Cuties From Space return. Our caped […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Land of Dreams by: Gian Sardar It's 1933, and though the country is stuck in the Great Depression, movies are the ultimate escape. But Hollywood is skilled at selling lies, and nothing is as it seems. Frankie Donnelly is scrappy, smart, and ambitious. Her […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Love and Other Brain Experiments by: Hannah Brohm Neuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein has success on the brain. As a grad student, she was offered a job by her brilliant boyfriend, but determined to make it on her own, she turned it—and him—down. Now […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Universe Box by: Michael Swanwick Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Stolen in Death by: J. D. Robb A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Hollow by: Celina Myers Mia Adair isn't even twenty-five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She’s spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Snow Crash by: Neal Stephenson Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Mountain in the Sea by: Ray Nayler The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Quicksilver by: Callie Hart Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Dear Debbie by: Freida McFadden Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Faith of Beasts by: James S. A. Corey Release date April 14, 2026. The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran's command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Woman Down by: Colleen Hoover Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 A Gentleman in Moscow by: Amor Towles In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Carl's Doomsday Scenario by: Matt Dinniman The aliens have come, and they've transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It's the newest season of the galaxy's most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler World. Now on the third floor, Carl […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by: Haruki Murakami In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat—and then for his wife as well in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Day of the Triffids by: John Wyndham When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to wake up with his sight—finds himself trapped in a London packed with sightless mobs who prey on those who […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Jade City by: Fonda Lee Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for—and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Friend of the Family by: Dean Koontz The human "oddities" in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Seascraper by: Benjamin Wood Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Departure by: A. G. Riddle En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Pachinko by: Min Jin Lee Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant, and that her lover is married, she refuses to be bought […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Pines by: Blake Crouch One way in. No way out. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a mission: locate two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 A Midlife Holiday by: Cary J. Hansson Meet Helen. She worries that the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her selfish husband away again, she's full of regrets at not taking the exciting paths she dreamed about in her youth. So when the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Operation Bounce House by: Matt Dinniman To be released February 10, 2026. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Vanishing Half by: Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Anxious People by: Fredrik Backman Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Unnoticeables by: Robert Brockway There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Piranesi by: Susanna Clarke Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Fauves by: Melissa Da Costa Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser. Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Cibola Burn by: James S. A. Corey An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Strange House (Manga) Vol. 4 by: Uketsu, Kyo Ayano As Yuzuki and I investigate the Katabuchi family home, our unease grows. What dark secrets has her family been hiding? The mysteries deepen, but at least one has been solved: the identity of You-chan's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel by: Jason Pargin Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Love Wager by: Lynn Painter Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Death of the Author by: Nnedi Okorafor Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 The Kaiju Preservation Society by: John Scalzi When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) by: Philip Pullman A war is brewing in Lyra's world between those who would keep people in ignorance and those willing to fight for freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Little Bosses Everywhere by: Bridget Read Companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the world’s greatest opportunity: the chance to be your own boss via an enigmatic business model called multilevel marketing, or MLM. They offer a world of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Cursed Daughters by: Oyinkan Braithwaite When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Against the Grain by: Terry O'Reilly In Terry’s bestselling book, My Best Mistake, he uncovers the surprising power of screwing up. Now, he turns his incredible eye to the mavericks who go “against the grain” in their work to see what makes them tick and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Dungeon Crawler Carl by: Matt Dinniman You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Nightcrawling by: Leila Mottley Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison But while Marcus […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 In the Lives of Puppets by: TJ Klune In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by: Omar El Akkad On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Call Me Ishmaelle by: Xiaolu Guo I must work on a ship as a man... I must find freedom on the seas. 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 It's Different This Time by: Joss Richard Reeling from the cancellation of her hit TV show, June Wood has nothing left to lose when a mysterious email lures her back to the New York City brownstone she once called home before she moved to Los Angeles […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

📚 Good Girl by: Aria Aber In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public […] [Original post on mastodon.social]