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…
Flux by Jinwoo Chong (Format used for this read: Audiobook) A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel—and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . . Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo…
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Format used for this book: Audiobook) In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of…
The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong (Format used for this read: Paperback–Library copy) Roll up! Roll up! The Space Circus is about to begin….. Persephone-9 is the galaxy’s most infamous pleasure moon, and it is here that Jes, a mixed-race asexual empath with gravity manipulation abilities, is hoping to hide in plain sight from the…
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows…
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning…
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (Format used for this book: Audio) Up until few years ago, my bookshelf was pretty racially and culturally homogenous when it came to authors. Meaning… Almost *ALL* the authors I read were WHITE….and either American or British. That was about it. This was not intentional….I seemed to just gravitate to what…
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon (Format used for this read: Audiobook) I DID IT, YALL! I made it thru this ENTIRE FLIPPING SERIES and got to this BRAND SPANKING NEW BOOK without ANY spoilers! Like NONE AT ALL! I have a lovely bookworm friend named Alicia who always sends…
Written In My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon (Format used for this read: Audiobook) My friend Jessica asked me the other day which Outlander book has been my favorite so far. That is a REALLLLY tough question!!!! I can most definitely say it was NOT the first book. If yall remember, I was on…
An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon I have been trying to diligently listen to this book so I could get right to Book 8 in preparation for Book 9 to be released…WHICH HAPPENED THIS VERY WEEK. I am stressed because I wanted to be all caught up with the series before this new…