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John Scalzi 's Starter Villain is a sweet standalone fiction novel. The protagonist is a down-on-his-luck everyman, currently feeling s...

Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines   tells a deliciously convoluted and self-referential set of nested stories. The first layer of s...

Melanie Gillman 's Other Ever Afters  is a cute collection of graphic short stories. Maybe fables? They are not as heavy-handed as tradi...

Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast had a delightful exploration of the impish Salvador Dalí, an incredibly successful cat rescue, and...

I adored Maria Dahvana Headley 's Beowulf  and was curious to read her earlier novel, The Mere Wife , which draws on the story of Beowul...

Finbar Hawkins' novel Witch tells the story of teenage Eveline, who sees her mother murdered by witch hunters and struggles to keep her...

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star is a graphic novel by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor. It's a joyful, colorful celebration of lines and activ...

Diana Wynne Jones ' novel Howl's Moving Castle is a fun fantasy novel. It was adapted into an animated Mikazaki film but the adapt...

Diana Wynne Jones ' Charmed Life is a children's fantasy book (apparently it is chronologically the third in a series of six ! alth...

 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is N. K. Jemisin's debut novel. The fantasy novel setting features a large empire where gods are real, pe...

Fine Structure is a scifi novel by author qntm . It starts in the present day with some physicists constructing an experiment to test their...

Time to Orbit: Unknown is a novel by Derin Edala . It's the length of maybe 5 standard novels, but available to read in its entirety on...

Mur Lafferty 's Six Wakes is a science fiction novel set on an interstellar ship, a whodunnit novel about clones and implanted memories...

Jess Fink 's We Can Fix It! is a brief graphic novel that investigates the question: what if you could travel back in time to formativ...

Nicola Griffith's Spear is a short, fascinating novella that retells a side quest legend in the Arthurian constellation of stories and c...

There is no antimemetics division is a novel / series of short stories / piece of collaborative fiction authored by qntm . The entire work ...

Stephen Brust 's Jhereg jumped to the top of the TBR queue because of Cory Doctorow's strong recommendation . It didn't hit any...

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe is a fantasy (?) horror (?) comedy novel by Jason Pargin , who also wrote John Dies a...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

Artificial Condition is the second in Martha Wells ' "The Murderbot Diaries" series; it won a Hugo award in 2019. It continu...