NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about KILL ALL WIZARDS by Jedediah Berry. A sword and sorcery novella of vengeance, brutal blades, and elegantly appointed tearooms, this book is uproarious: clever, charming, and utterly entrancing. Our drink is a frosty freezy Gotchimus!

Tobias Carroll (@tobiascarroll.bsky.social) reviews Jedediah Berry's new novel, Kill All Wizards, a fantasy full of action and ideas that calls back to the work Fritz Lieber. reactormag.com/book-review-...

WHAT is a PORTAL FANTASY?🚪 Ep. 209 airs tomorrow, with guests @seananmcguire.bsky.social & @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social & Greta Kelly defining what a portal fantasy actually is. Available June 30 in audio/video: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@fanfiaddict

Follow the cleric Chih as they record the stories of empresses, handmaidens, cultivators, ghosts, bandits, and many more in the Singing Hills Cycle by @nghivo.bsky.social 📚

"A gorgeously tender exploration of human connection in a post-human universe." —The Washington Post Volatile Memory by @sethhaddon.bsky.social is now available in paperback! 🌌

We're thrilled to share these interior illustrations by @rovinacai.bsky.social for A Song of Sugar Sparrows by @seananmcguire.bsky.social! 😍

Here's a taste of what you'll find in Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social 🤖 🍜

The happiest of book birthdays to The Lychford Collection 2 by @paulcornell.bsky.social! Collected together for the first time: The Lights Go Out in Lychford, Last Stand of Lychford, and Gnomes of Lychford 📚

The happiest of book birthdays to Kill All Wizards by @jedediahberry.bsky.social, the first in the Barbaric Ledgers series!⚔🫖 (With fun endpapers that are for anyone who loves a cup of tea with their swords and sorcery!)

In Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by @ianmcdonald.bsky.social, Tif is an orphan who just wants to ride a dinosaur under the big top - and in trying to become a dinosaur buckaroo, he catches someone's eye and boy, do those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking Carnotaur 🦖

Behold the cover of The Slantwise Histories: Collected Stories by @alixeharrow.bsky.social! Coming October 20, 2026. Dive into this dazzling collection of short fiction from the author of The Everlasting and Starling House. Cover art and design by Spencer Fuller / Faceout Studio

Congratulations to @amalelmohtar.com and @edenroyce.bsky.social! 🎉 The River Has Roots and Psychopomp & Circumstance are finalists for the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella! 🤩

We could think of nothing but the barbarian. He had come here, surely, to murder or marry someone, to exact revenge, or to say or do something very scandalous. We could hardly wait to see which it was. We hoped it would be all of them. Check out Kill All Wizards by @jedediahberry, on sale June 16!⚔️

Join @naomikritzer.bsky.social on tour as she celebrates the release of Obstetrix!💉 us.macmillan.com/tours/naomi-...

Congratulations to @amalelmohtar.com! The River Has Roots won the 2026 Nebula Award for Novella! 🎉 💐

The happiest of book birthdays to Obstetrix by @naomikritzer.bsky.social, a chilling portrait of a future too dark to imagine!

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this cozy sci-fi mystery series by @oliviawaite.com, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective 🚀

Happy Pride Month to everyone who has ever picked up a fantasy novel and thought, "this would be even better if they were girlfriends." 💕⚔️ Good news: we've got 10 sapphic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book recommendations for you. Which one are you reading first? ✨

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life in Even Though I Knew the End by @clpolk.com ✨ This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.

Behold the cover of Downright Scoundrels Needed by @sarahgailey.bsky.social, an explosive new story in the world of Upright Women Wanted, about the means and methods of undermining the machine of fascism! Coming 3/16/27. It’s not a crime if you don’t get caught... us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A queer, Gothic Cinderella retelling by the "queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon) herself, @freyamarske, with THESE vibes? Count us in!🤩🔥 📖: Cinder House

Congratulations to @edenroyce.bsky.social! Psychopomp & Circumstance is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award in the novella category! 🎉

Behold the cover of The Double Dorothy by @oliviawaite.com, the third entry in her Dorothy Gentleman series! Coming March 9, 2027. As the Fairweather approaches the halfway point of its journey, Dorothy Gentleman may have reached the end of hers… Illustration by Marcos Chin Design by Shreya Gupta

Time for an unboxing video! KILL ALL WIZARDS is out on 6/16/26 from @tordotcompub.bsky.social.

Some cozy book mail arrived🤩 Galleys are in for The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social! Introducing Havelock Harper, an all-new queer gentleman detective to rival Sherlock Holmes, with this cozy, fantastical mystery. Be gay, solve crimes!

Behold the cover of Devouring Gods by @jedediahberry.bsky.social, the sequel to Kill All Wizards! Coming March 2, 2027. To steal their prize from the goddess of keys, Gotch's crew face battle-nuns, drunken gentry, and giant frogs in evening wear. Cover art by Matthew Crumpton

"[@amalelmohtar.com] is a tender wordsmith, able to play with the form of folktales and letters, reference materials and lyrical prose... [Seasons of Glass and Iron] is alive on every page." - Kirkus Reviews 💐

The happiest of book birthdays to And Side by Side They Wander by @mollytanzer.bsky.social!🎨 An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?

The vibes of The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com in case you were curious💐

Engines of Reason, the much anticipated sequel to Elder Race by @aptshadow.bsky.social, is out Sept. 1! On a planet where stories govern identity, where science & magic are merely a point of view, a fallen princess, a reluctant wizard, & a precocious child must unravel the past to shape the future.

This stack of books is coming soon to shelves near you! And we can't wait🤩📚

Behold the cover of A Song of Sugar Sparrows by @seananmcguire! Coming January 12, 2027. Before there was Sumi, Promised Savior of Confection, there was Onishi Sumiko, a girl with no idea where she belonged. Art by Robert Hunt

The latest installment in @marthawells.com's Murderbot Diaries, Platform Decay, is out now from our friends @torbooks! Hack your governor module and get a copy today 🤖 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The happiest of book birthdays to A Long and Speaking Silence by @nghivo.bsky.social, the newest installment in the Singing Hills Cycle! A beautiful tale drawn from the earliest days of Chih's career as a wandering cleric. Every story begins somewhere...

We're starting off this May with some whimsy💐✨ And if you're anything like us, check out these book recs!

Set in a world inspired by East Asian & Southeast Asian history & mythology, @nghivo.bsky.social’s Singing Hills Cycle follows the archivist & cleric Chih as they record the stories of empresses, handmaidens, cultivators, ghosts, bandits, & many more. A Long and Speaking Silence is out next week!📚️

Starting the week with the best kind of mail - book mail! Galleys are in for Forged in FIYAH edited by @davaun.bsky.social!🤩 A celebration of Black speculative fiction unlike anything seen before, featuring the masterful prose of some of today's most accomplished writers.

In Untethered Sky by @fondalee.bsky.social, Ester, grief-stricken & full of rage, joins the King’s Royal Mews, where giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt manticores. Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra, she winds up on the empire’s most dangerous hunt & a journey of perseverance & acceptance.

We got some long-awaited book mail! Galleys are in for Engines of Reason by @aptshadow.bsky.social, the sequel to Elder Race! 🤩 Visit a world where sorcery intertwines with science.

The happiest of book birthdays to The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com, a story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language! Speak another people's language. Know them. Become them. And discover you've destroyed them.

Some good things for Dorothy Gentleman to bear in mind as the detective on the HMS Fairweather...🚀 Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com, a sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective!

Don't mind us, we're just looking back at all the books that kept us warm this winter📚❄️

Congratulations to all of our 2026 Locus Award Finalists! 🎉

April showers bring May flowers...though maybe not when those showers are on Mars!🌧️ In The Rainseekers by @matthewkressel.net, join Sakunja Salazar and her fellow travelers as they journey to see the first rain on Mars.

Rediscover a classic fairy tale in Cinder House - a novella from @freyamarske.bsky.social, "the queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon) 🔥

In Obstetrix by @naomikritzer.bsky.social, Dr. Liz is kidnapped by a fundamentalist cult deep in the rural west, as they're in desperate need of an OB/GYN. She has to survive long enough to escape, and help the girls trapped at the compound, if it's the last thing she does.

Congratulations, @sethhaddon.bsky.social!🎉 Volatile Memory is a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Awards in the speculative fiction category!

In the River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com, follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death 💐 “Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.” Now in paperback!

A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author @slhuang.com. Coming to shelves in two weeks!

"An incredibly fun and clever novella." — BookRiot Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com is now available in paperback! 🚀 Grab your copy today: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...