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Podcast Episode · OutWithDan · 12/02/2025 · 22m

Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…

Happy Latine Heritage Month! We’re celebrating as we do with books by Latine authors, mostly starring Latine main characters, and if you want even more recs, check out past years’ posts…

K. Valentin is the author of the critically acclaimed adult contemporary fantasy novel, An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder. She has also been published in the Bag of Bones Horror Anthology, Cosmos: An Anthology of Dark Microfiction and theLatino Book Review Magazine. K. hails from England and Las Vegas and presently calls rainy Washington home. This far-ranging combination of …

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Pick up these books for Genderfluid Visibility Week, including historical romance, YA fantasy, and memoir.

Books Read in October 2025

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Publishers Weekly: An air of dark whimsy pervades Valentin’s thoroughly entertaining debut. In the five years since Mateo Borrero’s less-than-maternal witch of a mother went missing, the 23-year-old has just been trying to get by; not helping matters is the fact that he’s possessed by a demon. Working at a print shop barely pays the bills for him and his best friend and roommate, Ophelia De La Garza, who finds it hard to hold on to a job due to her partially involuntary powers of astral projection.

Author K. Valentin shares how taking a chance on pitching agents via Zoom eventually led to representation of her debut novel.

This October expand your LGBTQIA reads with Witchlore, Dead & Breakfast, Local Heavens, and much more. Check out the rest of the list!

Each of these recent works of horror represent a new take on a classic monster figure or trope of the genre, from vampires, witches, and werewolves to cursed objects, creepy children, and haunted houses.

October's 37 new fantasy titles take us to metropolises like New York, Alt-Coulomb, and Tilliard, as well as remote castles and islands…

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This week, Vanessa recommends a whole batch of debut novels to read for Latine Heritage Month. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or

by Sarah ErwinMateo Borrero has a bit of a problem – his bruja mother (who is currently missing) trapped a demon in his body when he was born. Yet his own mother told him never, ever to use magic. Liv...

by Sarah ErwinMateo Borrero has a bit of a problem – his bruja mother (who is currently missing) trapped a demon in his body when he was born. Yet his own mother told him never, ever to use magic. Liv...

Clear your shelf for books from Joe Hill, Ken Liu, Thomas Pynchon, R.A. Salvatore, Martha Wells, and more—including that wild Nicholas Sparks-M. Night Shyamalan collaboration.