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Genre Experts Share the Hot Gossip on Their 2024 Reading Year
For those of us with a serious reading habit, the end of the calendar year is an exciting time. We get to look forward to the next year’s books, even as we reflect back on the year that was.
In honor of the second half of that sentiment, we’ve once again invited our team of authors and genre experts to discuss the trends and themes of 2024 across literary fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, and speculative fiction.
Below, our expert panel provides some high-altitude perspective on the literary trends they clocked this year, along with some enthusiastic personal recommendations. It’s genuinely valuable stuff. The overview portion focuses specifically on 2024 books, while the personal recommendations mix new and old, the way most of us tackle our Want to Read shelf throughout the year.
Our experts deliver an insider’s POV on a range of fascinating topics, including book parties, representation, retellings, debut novels, antiheroines, books-as-escapism, the enduring joy of Percival Everett novels, cozy academia, reluctant slashers, meta-romance, and wrinkles in the time-space continuum.
Keep reading for some intriguing insights and recommendations from 2024.
2024 in Literary Fiction
Mateo Askaripour wants people to feel seen. His first novel, Black Buck, takes on racism in corporate America with humor and wit. It was an instant New York Times bestseller and a “Read with Jenna” Today show book club pick. Askaripour was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 rising stars to make waves” and was named a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” prize. This Great Hemisphere is his second novel. He lives in Brooklyn.
The folks at Goodreads have been kind enough to ask me to give an “end-of-year review” for the past few years, which means that once a year, I’m asked to consider literary trends, which means that once a year, I scratch my head almost to the point of bleeding. Why is that? Perhaps I’m just not trendy. I don’t watch Love Is Blind, I’ve never used ChatGPT, and I still don’t entirely understand what a “Brat Summer” entails, though I’ve heard it’s fun. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Other times, ignorance is ignorance.
When I consider literary trends of any past year, my gut response on how to digest those trends changes. For 2024, I’m pulled to a mix of the quantitative and qualitative. Meaning, I’ve scanned The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, most popular books on Goodreads (popular here equating to books most added to Want to Read piles), and combined all of this with the books I’ve read or heard about. Not exactly a science, but as someone who has been entrenched in the literary industry for the past five years, you begin to see patterns.
For example, heavy-hitting authors continue to hit heavy. It’s probably no surprise that Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, was a fan favorite. Well, OK, “fan favorite” is putting it mildly. People had whole book parties around the book’s release, waited in line for it for hours, and purchased tons of merch. Percival Everett, continuing to bask in the afterglow of the adaptation of his novel, Erasure, into the film American Fiction, has enjoyed commercial and critical acclaim with James.
Then you have Kristin Hannah’s The Women, her 25th or so (please correct me if I’m wrong) novel, continuing her own trend of historical fiction, which dovetails into the hype for Amor Towles’ latest, Table for Two. And even though this column is focused on the broad category of “literary” fiction, it would be remiss of me not to mention how a few mysteries dominated readers’ psyches, including Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods and Chris Whitaker’s All the Colors of the Dark.
Of course, a handful of debuts and sophomore novels managed to break through, though not many. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar stands out, as does The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan, Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González, Real Americans by Rachel Khong, All Fours by Miranda July, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Broddeser-Akner, and Come and Get It by Kiley Reid.
And, as always, there are emerging and established novelists alike who continue to push the boundaries of fiction, electrifying us with new perspectives, remixing stories we think we know, and bringing fresh voices to what is otherwise becoming an unfortunately bland(er) soup of what sells, and therefore, is consumed en masse. Cebo Campbell’s Sky Full of Elephants comes to mind, as does Colored Television by Danzy Senna, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr., and Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang.
Lastly, I want to ask you a question to seriously consider, and, if you’re up for it, answer in the comments: Why are there so few writers of color on The New York Times fiction bestseller lists? Is it a problem with what we write, how we’re marketed and publicized, what readers prefer, or something else?
What new books especially stood out to you in literary fiction?
Language is important. It’s why we’re here, right? I bring this up because for this section, I’m defining a book that “stands out” as one that has been just about everywhere I turned this year. It doesn’t mean I’ve read it, that I thoroughly loved it, or that you just have to read it. No, that’ll come in the next section.
“In this retelling of sorts of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett aims his masterful, piercing pen at the absurd heart of enslavement, focusing on the character of James, affectionately referred to as ‘Nigger Jim’ in Twain’s version. But in Everett’s, James is a deep, feeling man who will do anything for those he loves, all the while playing the game of ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’ so as to survive with as much of his soul intact as possible.”
“I won’t lie to you, I’ve only read one of Sally Rooney’s novels, Normal People. But she is who she is for a reason. People are captivated by her ability to capture the intricacies of millennial relationships, those nooks and crannies where so much is said in silence, and insecurity is the order of the day. Supposedly Intermezzo, centering on two brothers––as well as their love and grief––continues this tradition. Let me know what you think if you’ve read it.”
“Some say the best novelists are poets, which would be the case of Kaveh Akbar and his debut, Martyr!, which is up for multiple awards. It’s about a young man, Cyrus, who, you could say, is really going through it. Dead mom. He’s a drunk and an addict. And he’s obsessed with those martyrs of his past who may or may not have sacrificed themselves for something more. I haven’t read it yet, but I plan to, and though I’m not really a betting man, I’m confident this one will put you in all your feels.”
“This is one of those mysteries that have taken the nation by storm. 1975. Summer camp. A 13-year-old girl disappears. The thing is, she’s from a prominent family—at least, they’re considered prominent in their region—and her older brother had also disappeared. (Can’t these parents keep track of their kids?) What ensues is a peeling back of layers, a community rocked, and a novel of epic proportions that people just can’t seem to put down.”
What about your personal reading year? What were the top books you read in 2024?
The main course has arrived. These are a handful of the books that were breaths of fresh air for me this year. The ones that I cracked open and didn’t want to close. The books that made me grateful to be a reader, and a writer, and compelled me to talk to someone, anyone, about them. Maybe you’ve read a few, maybe you haven’t, but I do hope you’ll give them a chance. Perhaps they’ll touch your spirit in the same way they did mine.
“God, I loved Danzy Senna’s latest novel. To pull from my own blurb of the book (if it’s not broken, don’t fix it), in Colored Television, we meet Jane and Lenny, two artists, parents, and people trying to maintain sanity despite 21st-century American angst and mounting existential pressures. It combines creative ambition, ‘work-life balance,’ and a sidesplitting sense of humor to convey what we all feel at some point: the desire to be unstuck from everyday struggles and tedium. Twisty, turny, and refreshingly relatable, it’ll make you read and wonder, Is she in my head?”
“Joseph Earl Thomas is not only proving himself to be an extremely prolific writer, but also a supremely skilled one, and God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer is all the evidence you need. It’s this hypnotizing mix of autobiography, philosophy, and commentary on just how damn hard it is to survive in the world. The main character, also named Joseph, defies just about all labels, and as we delve deeper into his mind, we’re given the opportunity to gaze at our own place in the mad scheme of things.”
“Every year, I get about five books for Christmas. Mostly, but not always, novels. By the time I cracked open Benjamín Labatut’s fourth book, I thought I’d made a mistake in thinking it was a novel. It read like nonfiction, didn’t have ‘A Novel’ on the front, and inhabited so many first-person voices so expertly that it felt like a series of journal entries that no one author could pull off. I’m not one to Google a book while reading it, or jump to the back, but at one point, I buckled, and found out that, yes, it is a novel, but unlike any I’d ever read. It focuses on John Von Neumann, a certifiable genius and madman who has shaped our world in ways that might be unknown to the mainstream but are entirely felt.”
“You ever want to read something so irreverent, so Wow, this is what I think, but would never say publicly? Enter Andrew Boryga’s debut, Victim. Pulling from my piece for The New York Times Book Review: In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy.…A thrilling work that requires a sense of openness and surrender, not only does this novel place the onus on us to decide whether Javi [the protagonist] is a victim, a victimizer, or both, it also forces us to interrogate our own complicity in the commodification of being a casualty. Because, as Javi says: Life ain’t neat. ‘No one among us is righteous.’”
“Hiking Mt. Everest is on everyone’s bucket list, right? No? That’s fine, because Karen Outen’s vertigo-inspiring debut will take you there, but you might not make it back down. It’s the story of two brothers, Dixon and Nate, who attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mt. Everest. It’s about hiking, sure, but, as you can already probably tell, it’s also about the mountain of life. Trials, tribulations, and triumph. Outen does such an incredible job that you actually feel as though you’re climbing the mountain with Dixon and Nate, experiencing every pain that they do, and making their goal your own.”
“In the same way that Karen Outen transported me to Mt. Everest, Tania James’ historical novel took me to the 18th century, where Abbas, a woodworker, is trying to make sense of his place in the world while also grappling with love, war, and legacy. It is a work that asks us to consider what it means to create, and the importance of leaving something behind that others can point to and see our own hands reflected in. In Loot, we understand that history is fiction as much as it is fact, and that it isn’t something of the past, but wholly existent in the present.”
2024 in Mystery, Thriller & Crime Fiction
Kellye Garrett’s crime fiction novels have been featured on the Today Show, won numerous awards, and named to Time magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. The latest is Missing White Woman, which was an Apple Books Staff Pick, Amazon Editors’ Pick, Reader’s Digest June 2024 book club selection and the CBS New York Club Calvi spring book club pick. In addition, Kellye is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color, which received the 2023 Raven Award from MWA and Boucheron’s 2024 David Thompson Special Service Award.
Writer protagonists are still very popular like the ones we see in Alex Segura’s Alter Ego, Sulari Gentill’s The Mystery Writer, and Jessa Maxwell’s I Need You to Read This. I’m also seeing a lot of academia, whether it’s on the dark side (Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown) or a lighter cozy (It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant). And of course there are a lot of romance-thriller hybrids. Think Sara Desai’s Simi Chopra heist series and Eliza Jane Brazier’s contract killer novel It Had to Be You.
No one would argue that we’ve dealt with a lot over the past four years. That’s why I’m not surprised that the biggest trend I’ve noticed is more escapist novels, but with an edge to them. This means a lot of dark humor and antiheroine protagonists—many of them women serial killers like in The Girl’s a Killer (Emma C. Wells) and How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways (Eve Kellman).
What new books especially stood out to you in crime fiction?
It’s not uncommon for crime fiction writers to jump from series to standalones or change subgenres. I’ve done it myself in my career jumping from cozies to domestic suspense. But there are a growing number of already established writers flocking to the adult crime fiction space with some amazing books.
Here are five of them:
“After writing six young adult novels, Ashley Elston published her first adult thriller with First Lie Wins. It was an instant New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick thanks to an amazing hook—Evie’s a con woman working her latest job when she meets a stranger who’s stolen her real identity. It manages to be good fun while also examining whether one can really escape their past.”
“Amy Tintera is another young adult author who just published her first adult mystery. Lucy’s BFF was brutally murdered years ago, and Lucy can’t remember if she’s the one who killed her. Tintera takes a lot of genre tropes—amnesia, small towns, podcasts—but manages to make it all feel fresh. Lucy is as hysterical as she is vulnerable. There’s also an underlying theme of women protecting men who won’t protect them.”
“Alyssa Cole was a well-established romance author when she published her first thriller in 2020. So I was excited she released her second thriller this year. Like Tintera, Cole found a fresh way to examine common tropes—a remote location and the unreliable narrator—by having all the POVs be part of a dissociative identity disorder system stuck on an island. These characters are usually the villains. Cole makes them the heroes.”
“Ben Ben is a Ghanaian book blogger and Bookstagrammer whose debut mixes genres as seamlessly as it mixes humor and seriousness. Told from the POVs of two native Ghanaians playing tour guide to three queer Black Americans while also avoiding a serial killer, it has whip smart observations about being gay, being African versus African American, and who actually is a villain.”
“The Hollywood writers’ strike found a lot of TV and film writers making the jump to novels—and they probably all want a career like Locke’s. For more than a decade she’s successfully had a foot in both spaces. Guide Me Home wraps up her Highway 59 series about one of the few Black Texas Rangers by seamlessly weaving intricate family dynamics, ripped from the headlines issues, and lush descriptions of Texas—and food.”
What about your personal reading year? What were the top books you read in 2024?
Like so many people, books were a means to escape real life feeling like a TV show. I didn’t want anything too heavy. I wanted to laugh. I wanted unique characters. I wanted to be comforted by the books that reminded me of what I read as a teenager. These are some of the books that did all that for me.
“This one got me out of a reading slump. It’s a supernatural thriller about a Pakistani American woman who goes missing from Manhattan after avoiding multiple attempts on her life. We follow Dunia days before her disappearance while also following a modern-day podcast investigating what happened. It’s a perfect mix of culture, suspense, and character.”
“Claire is a serial killer dealing with the grief of losing her father to dementia. Although I wouldn’t want to be her friend (see: serial killer), I loved being in her head as she investigates a murder mystery related to one she’s committed. It’s funny, unexpected, and over the top in the best way possible.”
“Any crime fiction novel that combines humor and celebrity is a must-read for me. After a con woman (think Anna Delvey) gets out of jail early, the journalist who made her infamous thinks she may be killing everyone who helped expose her. This romantic comedy-thriller hybrid is also an over-the-top satire that combines observations about growing up Arab American that will resonate with so many marginalized people.”
“Traditional mysteries like this are the literary equivalent of comfort food for me. Morita’s debut reminds me of Laura Lippman’s Baltimore Blues thanks to an enterprising journalist and a rich setting. Maya Wong is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of a rich white family of real estate developers—when the patriarch dies her first day on the job. The story also tackles themes of coming home again and rich white developers displacing local merchants.”
2024 in Romance
Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean and now lives in New York City. When not at work as a trauma therapist, she writes stories with unapologetic happily-ever-afters about people who look and sound like her people. Her books, which The New York Times has called “sweet and thoughtful, but delightfully filthy too,” include the contemporary Dreamers series as well as historical romance like 2022’s A Caribbean Heiress in Paris. Her newest title, A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, publishes in the U.S. in February 2025.
Tell us about the new trends you spotted in romance this year.
Romance is still queen! 2024 marks another year when the genre of love and hope dominates the bestseller lists. The past few years have brought on what can only be considered a “massive” growth in readers. The world is wising up to the fact that the romance genre can’t be matched.
As always, the genre continues to expand and grow in unexpected ways, with trends evolving and shifting. One thing is certain: Romance readers love romance deeply—so much so that one of the more interesting trends of the past year is the growing number of “meta romances.”
We love a romance, but you know what we love even more? A book about authors writing love stories. This year’s hit debut, How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang, had a bestselling romance author who ends up in her TV show’s writers’ room with a man from her past. Other romances with romance authors from this year were One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin, The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center, and Just Some Stupid Love Story by Katelyn Doyle.
Another delightful and growing trend is romance with magical realism or touches of magic, like A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams, and Ashley Poston’s A Novel Love Story, about a woman stuck in the fictional town from her favorite romance series. Another author writing these whimsical romances is Raquel Vasquez Gililland, whose latest, Lightning in Her Hands, features a woman whose hands affect the weather.
Finally, romance with darker themes is still going strong. A surprising new micro-trend? Slasher romance. Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver ushered in this wave in 2023 with her serial killers in love. In 2024, the sequel, Leather & Lark, as well as Lights Out by Navessa Allen, had readers sleeping with one eye open.
What new books especially stood out to you in romance this year?
“Sara Donati continues to write some of the most fascinating and romantic historical fiction out there. The Sweet Blue Distance takes on a sweeping journey from New York to New Mexico in 1845. Carrie Ballentyne goes West to secure a job as a nurse in Santa Fe and along the way finds love and not a little bit of trouble.”
“The Queen of the Rom-Com reigns supreme with this hilarious and emotional rom-com about a woman who comes out of retirement as a former ‘relationship breaker’ to help her sister. The Starter Ex has that signature Sosa humor, shenanigans galore, and a scorching romance.”
“I don’t need to tell anyone that Emily Henry writes a great romance, but Funny Story, I think, is her most romantic book yet. When a woman finds herself living with the man dumped by the woman her fiancé left her for, what should be the worst summer of her life turns into something a lot longer lasting. Deeply emotional and surprisingly sexy, this one might be my favorite Em Hen yet.”
“The gayest book I read all year—and I mean that in the best way possible. This romance between a trans minor league player and his teammate made me feel every good feeling. The love for baseball and queer community exploded from every page. I am grateful this book exists and can’t wait for what Hoffman does next.”
“In near-future Britain, they’ve figured out time travel, and a bureaucrat is charged with helping a Victorian Antarctic explorer assimilate to the 21st century. It’s a phenomenally clever book that manages to strike the perfect balance between humor, social commentary, and a pretty steamy romance. Perfection.”
What about your personal reading year? What were the top books you read in 2024?
“Ricki is a florist who leaves her cold, disapproving family and moves to Harlem for a fresh start. There she meets all kinds of generous strangers, including a mysterious piano player who captures her heart. This book is as much a romance as it is a love letter to Harlem.”
“One of the voiciest debuts I’ve read in years. From the first page, Ember is a singularly compelling character. Ember needs a better job, and she’s not having any luck. She decides to alter some facts on her résumé and things start to look up—until her feelings for a co-worker make everything complicated.”
“Hazelwood might have single-handedly brought back our favorite ship, Vamps vs. Weres, and brought ‘knotting’ to the masses. A vampire heiress is forced into a marriage with the leader of a werewolf pack, and things do not get off to a good start. Hazelwood, as always, delivered a solid romance with an incredibly clever and scientifically fascinating world of supernatural creatures.”
“A deeply emotional romance (as only Ryan can write) about a woman who has to start over after her marriage ends in betrayal. This story is as much about finding new love as it is about finding self-love. This Could Be Us is another masterpiece by Ryan.”
“Debuts have been phenomenal this year, and this one is another winner. It’s a Hollywood-set second chance romance pulsing with emotion. When a harried PA is reunited with her college ex—a director with his star on the rise—old emotions and wounds come back to the surface. This book reads like a behind-the-scenes tell-all, and I could not put it down.”
2024 in Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror
Kerine Wint (she/her) is a freelance writer, editor, and reviewer of speculative fiction for publications including FIYAH literary magazine and Goodreads. She’s also writing media critique essays, recording podcasts, and designing (editorial and packaging) too!
Tell us about the new trends you spotted in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in 2024.
The horizons of speculative fiction are widening every year (hello to the new juggernaut of the genre, romantasy) but it’s also making sure to remix the classics (shout-out to the vampires holding down the front of the paranormal line). So, as far as trends go, there’s a lot more experimentation with the tropes we already love.
Speaking of paranormal, creatures of the night had a packed year with titles like Bride by Ali Hazelwood, Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma, The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden, Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne, The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste, and Evocation by S.T. Gibson showing up on many Want to Read shelves. That also means Gothic was in all year round: My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino, Eynhallow by Tim McGregor, My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen, Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles, and An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson.
Most of the horror this year was more concerned with human depravity and cruelty. More and more eyes are on the atrocities and horrors of the real world, and authors are commenting on as much of it as possible on an interpersonal level. The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller and Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle explore the link between corporate greed and bigotry. The Tyranny of Flies by Elaine Vilar Madruga, translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn, and The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball stretched their metaphors to absurdist degrees to prove their point.
Speaking of the absurd, a lot of authors across genres pushed concept boundaries this year: Toward Eternity by Anton Hur (nanotechnology taking over the human life span), I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones (reluctant slasher memoir), The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (a magical attic spitting out new husbands), A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur (pretty self-explanatory, honestly) to name a few.
Overall, fantasy seemed to have the lightest vibes this year, while sci-fi and horror questioned how closely we’re paying attention to the world around us.
What new books especially stood out to you in speculative fiction?
Compared to my Want to Read shelf at the beginning of the year, my “read” list is unrecognizable. I don’t think I could’ve predicted finding so many of my favorite books that weren’t on my original radar, but I’m not complaining. Here are the standouts that I hope SFFH fans will give a try!
“I don’t know how much I can say about this series when we’re at the finale, but it’s here on this list for a reason. There are gods. There are battles. There’s everything you need from a well-executed, epic fantasy trilogy that builds a world with great depth and lore without being too vast to grapple with. It’s perfect for getting high-fantasy vibes in a digestible way.”
“Haunted houses and horror will always go hand in hand, and Martínez’s take follows a woman and her grandmother isolated in a home overrun with cajoling entities and the pain of the women of the family. Alternating POVs create a full picture of the classism and violent misogyny that plague this family, in and out of the house. The novella builds a tangible history for this family, making their road to justice a tale never to be forgotten.”
“The multiverse strikes again with a lighter, yet fascinating, approach to the mechanics. Instead of a machine or device, there are borders to the East and the West separating the town from 20 years ahead and behind itself. On the more melancholic side, this story takes us from a safe simplicity to a cruel awakening riddled with irreconcilable notions of grief and regret.”
“What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? That idea perfectly encapsulates this breathtaking debut by beloved Korean-to-English translator Anton Hur. Set in the near future, the novel traverses the life span of humanity as technological enhancements evolve, replicate, and replace indiscriminately. And though the implications of this future are harrowing, Hur infuses the words with a love letter to poetry: a hope that real human touch in art can save us all.”
“There have been a lot of collections of weird fic by women in the last couple of years, and at this point it’s just a matter of finding a favorite. Here’s a dark, weird, sensually laced, absurdly intimate, surreal debut collection that’s a good introduction to Puloma Ghosh—and to weird cross-genre fiction.”
What about your personal reading year? What were the top books you read in 2024?
As usual, my personal reading year was taken over by new releases, even more so than last year. Between titles that flew under the radar and my interest in indie releases piqued, the only backlist I managed included a few series rereads to catch up like The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson and The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi. Most of these were a surprise to me since they were books I happened upon throughout the year and, alas, left the biggest impression.
“Ours is a commitment to understanding the intricacies of a community; a story focused on tender interpersonal dynamics with the right amount of poetic beauty for literary fans and fascinating conjure powers for the SFF fans. It’s also a commitment to patience and an open perspective because this is not only the life of an isolated town but also the interwoven tale of free slaves piecing together a life for themselves with hopes of love, happiness, rest, and repair. And I think the commitment is well worth it.”
“When I fell in love with The Space Between Worlds, I was not expecting a sequel. It was a perfect book. But it looks like I do deserve nice things because this sequel was the follow-up I didn’t even know I needed. The world in book two expands past the confines of the oppressed versus the oppressor and instead brings us along a revolution overdue and asks us to consider the place violence has in fighting for a greater good. Micaiah Johnson is an easy recommendation for lovers of sociopolitical sci-fi.”
“This is a hard sell if you’re not into absurd, tongue-in-cheek styles. That’s not to say that this book is light by any means, keeping us in the home of a family that represents a microcosm of the dictatorial regime they exist in. It’ll be easy to find the characters unlikable and distasteful, and at times the confines of the home will close in on you as well, and the escalation, though slow, will keep you on edge—and that sounds like a good horror to me.”
“There’s no shortage of ‘what if’ multiverse stories to put us in a tailspin, and although I love a parallel universe, it’s hard for them to stand out. But North delivered (in a debut at that!). Fellow readers have described In Universes as ‘poetic’ and ‘kaleidoscopic,’ and that perfectly encapsulated the depth of this pseudo-anthology of Raffi’s life, each version a distinct look at identity, grief, queerness, and regret.”
“With an opener like ‘How to Eat Your Own Heart,’ it’s hard to deny Gina Chung’s use of speculative elements to explore the deep complexities of wanting—wanting to reminisce, wanting to forget, wanting to become someone new, and wanting to be wanted. Chung does it all and then some with fantastical beasts, tender interpersonal moments, and a few absurdist scenarios to keep it interesting.”
What are your favorite genres to read? Let us know which of these genre experts’ suggestions catch your eye in the comments below!
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Not a mention of The Claire Saga. Sigh.
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Why no thumbnails for SFF and Horror?? We like pictures too. 😁
Where is the nonfiction, especially history? What about youth, especially middle grade fiction? We need to bring youth into reading, to keep things like Goodreads alive!
My favourite genres are mystery/thriller, horror and literary.
Young adult fiction, middle grade fiction, historical fiction?
