Here For It or How to Save Your Soul in America

Here For It or How To Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (Format used for this read: Audiobook) R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went – whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative Black church, or his…

Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Format used for this read: Audiobook) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has…

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and…