Murder in Manhattan by Julie Mulhern 3.5⭐ What is more glamorous than going to a speakeasy dressed as a flapper in the 1920s? I'll tell you what, it isn't murder. Full review: buff.ly/OddHjH3 💙📚⚡📚🎧

To Ride A Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose (Nampeshiweisit #2) 4.5⭐ Out January 27! Anaqus and her dragon Kasaqua survived their first year at Kuiper's Academy even after being outcast, shot, and saving the Jarl. Full review: buff.ly/monCJW0 💙📚🪐📚🌈

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien with Andy Serkis (Narrator) Andy Serkis gives his best performance yet. I regularly forget that I was listening to just one person. Full review: buff.ly/FGXNVsg 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Unnamed by M.S. Masood (The Book of Names Duology #1) 4.5⭐ Out January 15!! When the Unnamed rebel, the healer comes to collect Reim's side of the bargain, her hand in marriage (that is NOT where I thought this was going). Full review: buff.ly/mG6vVHz 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien with Andy Serkis (Narrator) I would be so interesting to read through this series when it first came out. The plot twists in this book would be diabolical . Full review: buff.ly/otzMy2u 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien with Andy Serkis (Narrator) Frodo has always lived a quiet life in the Shire, but he often wishes he could go on an adventure like his uncle and guardian Bilbo. Full review: buff.ly/HBvREY5 💙📚🪐📚🎧

A Fortnight To Forever by Alycia E. Anderson 4⭐ Out January 2026 Quinn has a fortnight (14 days for the modern reader) to aid a stranger before she goes back to sleep for a century. Full review: buff.ly/xSov87I 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #11) 4⭐ Out January 6, 2026. Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children has three rules: no solicitations, no visitors, no quests. Well that last rule is broken once again. Full review: buff.ly/WNFK5lW 💙📚🪐📚

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire with Barrie Kreinik (Narrator) (Wayward Children #10) 4⭐ Nadya was born with the bottom portion of her right arm missing, but that has never slowed her down. Full review: buff.ly/sJ9cOSD 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire with Jesse Vilinsky (Narrator) (Wayward Children #9) 4⭐ Antsy knows that all doors have a cost and not everything that is lost can be found. Full review: buff.ly/lUdtFVW 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant to the Villain #3) 4⭐ Evie is no longer an assistant or apprentice, but an accomplice to the Villain. Full review: buff.ly/PPqiF3F 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 4.25⭐ Graduate school is its own form of hell. But Alice has to take it one step further after her advisor, Jacob Grimes, dies Full review: buff.ly/P7AhnFt 💙📚🪐

Sargassa by Sophie Burnham 5⭐ I would give this book every star in the universe if I could. Yes, it is that good. And yes, you need to read it right now so I have someone to talk to about it. Full review: buff.ly/NmsSHlB 💙📚🪐

@sophieburnham.bsky.social has broken my brain. I literally don't even know what to do with myself after finishing Sargassa. I need more people to talk to this about RIGHT NOW. 💙📚🪐

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire with Jesse Vilinsky (Narrator) (Wayward Children #8) 5⭐ Watching your father die in the toy aisle is probably the most traumatic experience any child could have. Full review: buff.ly/jFhURYv 💙📚🪐📚🎧

A Short History of Ancient Rome by Pascal Hughes with Johns Hopkins (Narrator) 4.5⭐ The fact that Pascal Hughes was able to pack a millennia of history into 352 pages (or nine hours audio) is truly remarkable. Full review: buff.ly/dyIAfaZ 💙📚💡📚🎧

The Burning Queen by Aparna Verma 5⭐ Elena is no longer an innocent princess. She is the exiled Ravani Queen and a god. Full review: buff.ly/YSGfOwU 💙📚🌶️📚🪐

Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire with Whitney Johnson (Narrator) (Wayward Children #7) 4.25⭐ Following the events of the fifth Wayward Children book Come Tumbling Down, Cora is struggling after being noticed by the drowned gods in the Moors. Full review: buff.ly/w2Rt1eG 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire with Anne Marie Carlson (Narrator) (Wayward Children #6) 4⭐ Regan has just found out she is intersex and she runs away only to find herself in the Hooflands. Full review: buff.ly/WvX8vNg 💙📚🪐📚🎧

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose with Charley Flyte (Narrator) (Nampeshiweisit #1) 5⭐ You think you know dragon academies? Think again. Full review: buff.ly/ttSBGE7 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚 🌈

The Dragon Wakes With Thunder (The Dragon Spirit Duology #2) by K.X. Song with Natalie Naudus (Narrator) 3.75⭐ I absolutely loved The Night Ends with Fire and I was sadly disappointed by The Dragon Wakes With Thunder. Full review: buff.ly/XG8OEzQ 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien with Andy Serkis (Narrator) 3.75⭐ I don't care if you've read The Hobbit before, if you haven't listed to it read by Andy Serkis you NEED TO. Full review: buff.ly/w8KJ1Kw 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Phoenix King (The Ravence Trilogy #1) by Aparna Verma with Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam, Akshay Kumar, and Deepti Gupta (Narrators) 3.75⭐ I think most of my issues with this book come from what it was marketed as and what it really was. Full review: buff.ly/9GcnRrk 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree (read by the author) 5⭐ Fern, a bookseller rattkin, is getting older but has never felt a sense of fulfillment. An accidental adventure is what she might need to change that. Full review: buff.ly/oWVKoeO 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Kill the Beast by Serra Swift 3.5⭐ Kill the Beast is a semi-cozy slight "Beauty and the Beast" retelling. Full review: buff.ly/Q9n7Uvf 💙📚🪐

The Outlaw Witch of Sherwood by Brittany Hansen 4.25⭐ Renna is the crown princess of Loxley a kingdom governed by fire. Inside of the kingdom there are no trees and each citizen gives taxes in blood. Full review: buff.ly/PNRYRKQ 💙📚🪐

When You Get to the Other Side by Mariana Osorio Gumá 3.5⭐ After the death of their grandmother Emilia and Gregorio take what money she had saved up and make the difficult journey across the US/Mexican border. Full review: buff.ly/TmLrtrQ 💙📚🎧

Everything is Tuberculosis written and narrated by John Green 4.75⭐ Everything is Tuberculosis is not just a story of disease, it is a story of failing those who need the help most, capitalism, and societal norms. Full review: buff.ly/cBxgJBf 💙📚💡📚🎧

This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #) 5⭐ The Ninth Floor. Nine Armies. One Winner. Factions wars has begun. Full review: buff.ly/idQuLZZ 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #5) 4⭐ Considering I thoroughly enjoyed the last adventure into the Moors, I was a little disappointed by Come Tumbling Down Full review: buff.ly/lltUHVr 💙📚🪐📚🎧

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #4) 4.75⭐ Although “In an Absent Dream” is the fourth book in the Wayward Children Series, you could read this as a stand-alone. Full review: buff.ly/H6pvQFB 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire with Michelle Dockrey (Narrator) (Wayward Children #3) 3⭐ Coming off of “Down Among Sticks and Bones” I was pretty dissatisfied with “Beneath the Sugar Sky”. Full review: buff.ly/gEVdbCa 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #2) 4.5⭐ This standalone story focuses on twin sisters Jack and Jill before they went to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Full review: buff.ly/PM6Wa7w 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #1) 4⭐ We've all heard fairytales of underworlds, worlds of sugar, worlds of faeries. But what about the people that return from those worlds and want to go back? Full review: buff.ly/FDSON1T 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Shape of Shadows by C.E. Varrati 4.5⭐ The Shape of Shadows is a story of Selene learning to live, not just survive. Full review: buff.ly/op5aaXT 💙📚🪐

A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea #2) 4⭐ The Ram has been unmasked, Spindrift was burnt to the ground, and the White Roaring is in shambles. Full review: buff.ly/2wtdR1f 💙📚🪐📚⌛

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLaren (Narrator) 5⭐ Sera has almost given up on restoring her magic until Luke, a magical historian, and his sister arrive on the door of the magical inn. Full review: buff.ly/2fNxm3b 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge with Jeremy Tiang (Translator) 4.5⭐ This book starts out feeling like a collection of interconnected short stories but each chapter has the narrator questioning both herself and the world in which she lives. Full review: buff.ly/fpxsttE 💙📚🪐📚

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6) 5⭐ I knew Patrick Warburton was a a guest narrator, I have no name to face recognition. Then KRONK came up as Carl's dad. When I tell you I was NOT ready, but it was absolutely fantastic. Full review: buff.ly/HWBcA8o 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) 5⭐ On the sixth floor Carl, Donut, and the gang not only have to worry about NPCs, but now the hunters are loose. Full review: buff.ly/atiS0Ns 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🎧

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) 4.25⭐ Carl, Princess Donut, and Katia need to bring down a floating fortress, not the most complicated thing they've dealt with right? Full review: buff.ly/JULC3jV 💙📚🪐📚⏰

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3) 4.75⭐ I imagine the Iron Tangle to look like if I took every necklace I own, put it in a bag, and shook it. Except every necklace is a railway. Full review: buff.ly/TwHW1Dr 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) 4.5⭐ Carl and Princess Donut are still fighting for their lives. But now they have a murder chicken pet named Mongo. Full review: buff.ly/FBBQT10 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) 4.75⭐ Dungeon Crawler Carl is like if the Hunger Games Arena, Borderlands Video Games, and Twitch Streaming had a baby. Full review: buff.ly/ZytBVXH 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Selkie by Nataly Gruender with Siobhan Waring 3⭐ Quinn is a selkie, living most of her life as a seal, until one day she takes of her pelt to turn into a human. Full review: buff.ly/Wn9Y3nG 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly with Robin Miles 3.75⭐ Rarely when we think of the space race or the early fighter jets do we think of those behind each invention. Even rarer still is to think of the Black women who played vital roles. Full review: buff.ly/OUd9V1W 💙📚💡📚🎧

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski with Nikki Massoud 3.5⭐ Set in 1870s Chicago, triplets Anna, Beatrix, and Violet run a tea room. But not just any tea room, they read the fortunes in their customers tea leaves. Full review: buff.ly/RALuVAy 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚⌛

A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen (Saga of the Unfated Duology #2) 3.25⭐ Once again, Bjorn and Freya are enemies and it seems like everyone is out to get them. A war is still looming on the horizon, but who is in the right and deserves her shield? Full review: buff.ly/RQdEfin 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 3⭐ Marie Jones is a 29 year old divorcee with two cats: Meatloaf and Meatball. She gets called in to find a missing cast member of the show "Sex Island". But, before she can find him he finds her...dead...in her bath tub. Full review: buff.ly/dyJvwwP 💙📚⚡

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 5⭐ Set in 1950s Hollywood it seems like every actress is vying for the role of Salome, a biblical figure known for her dance of the seven veils. Full review: buff.ly/MvZUv35 💙📚⌛📚🎧