Note: I was provided with an ARC from Erewhon Books in exchange for an honest review. The Wolf and his King is a queer retelling of the medieval poem “Bisclavret” by Marie de France (don’t worry if…

Alt: The pokemon absol looks down from a cliff. Its mane blows majestically in the breeze.

Note: I was provided with an ARC from Feiwel and Friends in exchange for an honest review. Hollow Magic is a YA fantasy graphic novel expected to release in August of next year. It is written by Mars Lauderbaugh, who uses they/them pronouns. While this is their first publication, Lauderbaugh is probably best known as the artist who illustrated the covers for Aiden Thomas’s…

Note: I was provided with an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review. Sympathy for the Blues is the first book in a trilogy of historical romance novels that take place in the 1970s. It concerns the rise of the (fictional) Detroit-based blues rock band The Dusty Brooms and the romantic tension between guitarist Gene Hillard and singer Ray Roderick.

Note: I was provided with an ARC from Duck Print Press in exchange for an honest review. For those of you who aren’t in the know, Duck Print Press is a small, independent publisher focusing on helping fan creators publish their original work, especially queer authors writing LGBTQ+ stories! In addition to standalone short stories and full novels, they also edit anthologies inspired by works in the public domain.

Maybe it’s a bit odd to put two indigenous authors next to each other, but it’s my list. Plus these books have literally nothing else in common, so if Stephen Graham Jones wasn’t for you, this one might be. The Truth According to Ember is just a really good, by the numbers romcom. And that’s not an insult. Romance novels are incredibly difficult to get right.

There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...

I wish this entry was coming out in October, since it feels a bit odd to recommend a horror book in the middle of summer reading season. But I post when I post, and it’s always a good time to read Stephen Graham Jones! Aside from his entry in The Mythic Dream, this is actually the only of Jones’s work that I’ve read.

Of course, this list would not be complete without something by ND Stevenson. We were both on tumblr around a similar time, and I’ve been following his career quite closely. Nimona is the comic that put him on the map. It was originally published as a webcomic, but was later picked up by HarperColins. I really enjoy webcomics, but I didn’t find it until after it was published and only the first chapter was available for free.