Molka by Monika Kim on April 28, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Feminist, Fiction / Horror / Psychological, Fiction / World Literature / Korea Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads I don’t typically reach for horror novels, but Molka felt like a different kind of horror to me. The true horror comes from how […]
A deeply intimate fantasy shaped by grief, coercion, and the longing to live beyond imposed roles “Everything in the waking world is muted. Insignificant. It hardly feels real. How can anyone stand it?” In Cass Henderson’s The Liminal Room, the first in the Phoenix Awakening series, dreams are not an escape from reality. Instead, they […]
A shocking, violent, chaotic story of a cryptid lurking in the southern Illinois woods In a southern Illinois town called Makanda in 1973, a string of brutal deaths ravages the area. The local police blame the recent killings on a particularly aggressive mountain lion, instituting a curfew for the town’s residents. But when the Sheriff’s […]
Some thrillers whisper. This one walks in on six-inch heels, drops a body on the marble, and dares you to look away. Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead takes the shiniest corner of Los Angeles, the world of rising singers and models and the powerful men who prey on them, and turns it into […]
An insightful memoir about compulsive behavior, self-discovery, and the enduring possibility of change Aimee Zaring’s Cutting Loose: My Journey from Survival Mode to Embodied Flow is part memoir and part exploration of somatic healing. In the book, Zaring recounts her struggle with trichotemnomania, a little-known compulsive disorder characterized by the repetitive cutting or shaving of […]
Content warnings: Sexual relationship with a minor A refined, edgy take on a rock & roll band’s attempts to break into the mainstream Tear Here follows the story of Some Assault, a group composed of recalcitrant high schoolers and their headstrong, charismatic drummer Liddy. The narrative is a bittersweet tale of an ensemble in transition […]
There is a particular ache that comes from loving someone you have quietly stopped seeing. You share a bed, a mortgage, a dog, and yet somewhere along the way the person becomes furniture. Always there, easy to walk past. The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren takes that small marital tragedy and does something audacious with […]
Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman on June 23, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 304 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Catherine Steadman has done it again! Nine Lives is one of those psychological thrillers that slowly gets under your skin. At first, you’re happily […]
Journey to the Heartland thoughtfully merges the Chinese immigrant experience with the struggle to accept one’s sexual identity and find belonging. “‘Mom, if the Earth is round, what about the people in the southern hemisphere? How could they not fall off the Earth?’” Hanwei Zhou grows up in a Chinese factory town during the industrial […]
A touching, everyday love story and the past that shaped it When Michael meets Andrea in a cafe, he can’t help but reach out. Literally. Trying to sit at a nearby table, Andrea is greeted by a helping hand she didn’t ask for. And while it might be awkward and at least a little bit […]