The Sixth Nik (2026) Daniel Kraus "The redefinition of body horror. People will tell you this book is like drugs. The truth is that it is drugs."
Obstetrix (2026) Naomi Kritzer "Obstetrix is timely, frightening, and deeply satisfying. Wrap it in a blanket and take it home while it's still legal in your state."
The Villa, Once Beloved (2025) Victor Manibo "Manibo is the kind of writer who knows what's forever: the gothic, the triumph of queers, the family fable. He puts all that up against what cannot stand: colonialism, small-mindedness, the lies that keep us from ourselves. The Villa Once Beloved is a now and forever banger."
Wearing the Lion (2025) John Wiswell "Wearing the Lion explains human relationships in the only way that makes sense: by suspending them between the dipshit gods we created and the loyal pets we don't deserve. I laughed, I cried, I burned incense at an ancient altar.""
The Adventures of Mary Darling (2025) Pat Murphy "A delightful mashup of familiar tales, written by an expert for the reader who hungers for something old, something new, justice borrowed and logical glue."
Cuckoo (2024) Gretchen Felker-Martin "Cuckoo is a nest of guts so red and inviting you'll find yourself slurping out of it like pasta before you know what's in your mouth. No other author can make the beautiful so grotesque, nor the grotesque so beautiful."
The Butcher of the Forest (2024) Premee Mohamed "Nothing in nature matches the uncannily sweet murdermirth of Premee Mohamed. She will show you yearning in a scrap of cheese or the whole world in the rules of a game. This book is bigger inside than out... by a large margin."
A Quantum Love Story (2024) Mike Chen "Time isn't a flat circle; it's a donut. Love isn't mystery; it's a miracle. This book beats like a patient heart that can't stop reliving the moments when it last loved you."
Trashlands (2021) Alison Stine "A triumph. Trashlands is that rare piece of cli-fi that reminds us that the apocalypse will not be evenly distributed. Poor people on the edges of the world where the water will rise strive here in Stine's prescient imagination: harvesting plastic, doing sex work, tasting the future that should have been in the last few cans of Coke. This book is as biting and sweet and as dark as that bubbling old-world treat.... It's about time someone sang us the song of trailer parks and strip joints of the post-apocalyptic South, and Stine has the right voice to do it.... Readers who want more like Atwood's The Year of the Flood or Valente's The Future is Blue will be lucky to wash up on Trashland's littered shores."
Finna (2020) (LitenVerse, book 1) Nino Cipri "Minimum wage and maximum weird."
All That's Bright and Gone (2019) Eliza Nellums "Triumphant . . . A gorgeously intimate work of art. Nellums has a grip like Virgil, and you won't want to let go."
The Library Of The Unwritten (2019) (Hell's Library, book 1) A J Hackwith "The Library of the Unwritten is a tiered dark chocolate cake of a book. The read is rich and robust, the prose has layers upon layers, and the characters melt like ganache upon the tongue."
