Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and their fiction has been published internationally. They are a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble.
This is My Body (2025) Lindsay King-Miller "This Is My Body is simply one of the finest works of familial horror I have ever encountered. This book is hideously satisfying."
Voice Like a Hyacinth (2025) Mallory Pearson "Voice Like a Hyacinth is violently delicious. Prose so vibrant it's neon. So skillfully messy, deep in the mess, obsessed with the mess. This book makes me want to learn how to write."
Dead Girls Don't Dream (2024) Nino Cipri "Compassionate and unflinching, Dead Girls Don't Dream is one of the loveliest, most devastating things I've read in a long time."
Model Home (2024) Rivers Solomon "A profoundly haunting work of true horror from one of the greatest writers working today."
Metal from Heaven (2024) August Clarke "August Clarke is one of the most electrifying voices in genre fiction today. In Metal from Heaven, the volume is turned all the way up. This one will blow your hair back."
Haunt Sweet Home (2024) Sarah Pinsker "Sarah Pinsker delivers yet again. Haunt Sweet Home cuts directly to the heart of a life that feels like it's haunted by the person living it. This one is fraught in all the right places."
Last to Leave the Room (2023) Caitlin Starling "Last to Leave the Room is a singularly fascinating book. Starling is a genius for the horrors of the physical and the interpersonal, and this book marries those two unique nightmares brilliantly."
Camp Damascus (2023) Chuck Tingle "Camp Damascus is a hell of a ride. Tingle is right at home in the horror genre - he delivers all the thrills of a slasher while exploring the deep wounds that can be inflicted by broken systems. This book is worth your time."
Feed Them Silence (2023) Lee Mandelo "Holy hell, what a visceral and heart-clenching book. Feed Them Silence is a searing portrait of what it means to give up distance for the sake of understanding."
Chlorine (2023) Jade Song "This book was viscerally unnerving and I could not put it down."
Our Crooked Hearts (2022) Melissa Albert "A story as thrilling, alluring, and harrowing as the magic it describes . . . This is a book that draws the reader in so cleverly, you won't think to ask how deep the water is until it's too late. An instant favorite."
Nettle & Bone (2022) T Kingfisher "Nettle & Bone brings Kingfisher's signature honesty and authenticity to a fairy tale setting-the result is refreshing, earnest but not naive, and deeply satisfying. I devoured it. This is one that's going to stay with me for a long time."
Squad (2021) Lisa Sterle and Maggie Tokuda-Hall "Squad is monstrously delightful and delightfully monstrous. This book is transformative, healing, and deeply powerful."
A Lot Like Adios (2021) (Primas of Power, book 2) Alexis Daria "As always, Alexis Daria has delivered a perfectly-balanced romance that's my ideal combination of sweet and spicy. I love the Primas of Power and can't wait to see where they go next!"
A Dark and Starless Forest (2021) Sarah Hollowell "Hollowell’s crafted something as intricate and complex and painful and beautiful as a life. This story is completely saturated with love and rage and yearning. It is, quite simply, a triumph."
Revelator (2021) Daryl Gregory "Revelator is a brilliant, dark examination of glorious horror and horrific glory. A monstrous, hypnotic tale of worship, devotion, and family secrets—I'll be thinking about this one for a long time."
One Last Stop (2021) Casey McQuiston "One Last Stop is a simply stunning book. It's tender and honest at every turn. Reading this book healed something in me that I didn't know was hurting, and fed something in me that I didn't know was hungry. It's perfect, perfect, perfect."
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021) (Last Night at the Telegraph Club) Malinda Lo "Lo has really outdone herself here. I don't think I can overstate how refreshing it is to read queer historical fiction that is so complex, nuanced, and tender. It's my opinion that this book will quickly become a new touchstone of the genre of queer literature. What an accomplishment."
Ring Shout (2020) P Djèlí Clark "Ring Shout is a sublime work of revolutionary body horror."
Savage Legion (2020) (Savage Rebellion, book 1) Matt Wallace "Savage Legion is the epic fantasy the genre has been waiting for!"
The Bright Lands (2020) John Fram "I am stunned—I haven't been able to step away from this book since I started it. An earnest, thoughtful exploration of the monstrosity inherent in our American myths surrounding masculinity and sexuality, The Bright Lands is a kind of horror I've never seen before. Fram's done something exquisite here."
Mexican Gothic (2020) Silvia Moreno-Garcia "A gorgeous piece of work . . . Absolutely terrifying, and it has stayed with me in a powerful way."
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020) Grady Hendrix "Grady Hendrix has cemented his place as a literary luminary with The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Hendrix has taken his genuine affection for housewives and their work, and folded it seamlessly into a horrifying story of social decay and community betrayal. Cancel your plans and lock your doors -- you won't be able to stop reading this one until the very end."
You Let Me In (2020) Camilla Bruce "You Let Me In is a relentless, heartbreaking exploration of isolation, grooming, and the cycles of abuse that pursue the vulnerable. The Pepper Man is terrifying on levels that will stay with you long after you've put the book down, crawled into bed, closed your eyes, and told yourself that everything is going to be okay."
The Return (2020) Rachel Harrison "The Return is a sharp, refreshing book about the mortifying ordeal of being known. This is a book that understands how terrifying a lasting friendship can truly be; Harrison brilliantly highlights the way friendships can tether a person to their worst memories, their worst selves, and their worst nightmares."
Sisters of the Vast Black (2019) (Sisters of the Vast Black, book 1) Lina Rather "Lina Rather embraces the complex relationships between faith, imperialism, love, and humanity while somehow managing to make the pitiless void of space feel intimate."
Miranda in Milan (2019) Katharine Duckett "With gorgeous prose and an unflinching understanding of the characters she's been given, Duckett has crafted a deeply satisfying finish to the story Shakespeare started telling."
Sawkill Girls (2018) Claire Legrand "Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power."
The Hollow Girl (2017) Hillary Monahan "The Hollow Girl is required reading: a tour de force of female power, craft, and emotion."
The Uploaded (2017) Ferrett Steinmetz "Steinmetz has crafted a brilliant, original world in this all-too-possible story of life, death, and legacy. The Uploaded is a wild ride from start to finish, and asks the reader to examine what exactly it is that they are leaving behind - and what they're headed toward."
