The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes: Time Travel, a Serial Killer, and the Girl Who Lived
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Lauren Beukes displays her razor sharp prose in The Shining Girls, a story that pits a determined young journalist against a time-travelling serial killer.
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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton: Pride and Prejudice and Dragons
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A Victorian-ish, Jane-Austen-ish drama where everyone is a dragon. Yes, this is literally what happens in Jo Walton’s “Tooth and Claw”.
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume 1, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson: Squirrel!
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I’m nuts about The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson. How often do you get a comic with such humour and a kick-ass theme song?
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The Mangoverse Books by Shira Glassman
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The Mangoverse books are fun, light fantasy with queer characters, happy endings, and tasty-sounding food. And dragons. And Judaism. Did I mention the fun?
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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin: Orogene Lives Matter
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A look at N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, a fantasy book that speaks deeply about oppression, inequality, and how society benefits from perpetuating both.