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Release Week: 13 May 2025
Posted on 2025-05-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, read by Steven Pacey for Macmillan -- "Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care
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Release Week: 6 May 2025
Posted on 2025-05-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame By: Neon Yang, read by Nancy Wu for Recorded Books -- "A stunning queer novella about a dragon hunter finding home with a dragon queen."
Overgrowth By: Mira Grant, read by Caitlin Kelly for Macmillan -- "Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her. Now
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Release Week: 29 April 2025
Posted on 2025-04-29 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- One Way Witch: She Who Knows, Book 2 by Nnedi Okorafor, read by Yetide Badaki for Brilliance -- At long last, a sequel to Who Fears Death: "As a teen, Najeeba learned to become the beast of wind, fire and dust: the kponyungo. When that took too much from her, including the life of her father, she let it all go, and for a time, she was happy—until only a few years later, when the small, normal life she’d built was violently destroyed. Now in her forties and years beyond the death of her
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Release Week: 22 April 2025
Posted on 2025-04-22 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Eleven Percent By: Maren Uthaug, translated by Caroline Waight, read by Cassandra Campbell for Recorded Books -- "It is the New Time, a time not so different from our own except that the men are gone. All but eleven percent of them, that is, the minimum required to avoid inbreeding. But they are safely under lock and key in “spa” centers for women’s pleasure (trained by amazons to fulfill all desires) and procreation. A few women protest that the males should be treated better–more space, better
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Release Week: 15 April 2025
Posted on 2025-04-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Hellions: Stories by Julia Elliott, read by Suzy Jackson and Matt Godfrey for Recorded Books -- "From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal."
Notes From a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, read by Avi Roque for Macmillan -- "Griffon Keming’s second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition
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Release Week: 1 April 2025
Posted on 2025-04-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
(in progress...)
PICKS:
When We Were Real By: Daryl Gregory read by Ari Fliakos for Simon and Schuster -- "From multiple award-winning author Daryl Gregory comes a madcap adventure following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through the mind-boggling glitches in their simulated world as they grapple with love, family, secrets, and the very nature of reality in a simulation."
Gifted & Talented By: Olivie Blake, read by Eunice Wong for Macmillan -- "The story of three siblings who, upon the death of
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Release Week: 25 March 2025
Posted on 2025-03-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
When the Moon Hits Your Eye By: John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton for Audible -- "The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible."
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Release Week: 11 March 2025
Posted on 2025-03-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- The Tomb of Dragons: The Chronicles of Osreth: The Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy, Book 3 by Katherine Addison, read by Liam Gerrard for Macmillan -- My pre-order this week, and again cementing my belief that I could read one of these every year for as long as the author cares to write them. "Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him? While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a
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Release Week: 4 March 2025
Posted on 2025-03-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Dream Count: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by the author for Books On Tape -- "A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires."
The River Has Roots By: Amal El-Mohtar, read by Gem Carmella for Macmillan -- "In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There
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Release Week: 25 February 2025
Posted on 2025-02-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, read by the author for Random House -- "From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."
FICTION PICKS:
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker, read by Jay Myers and Alex Sarrigeorgiou for Random House -- "In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The
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