“Pretty great podcast. You’d get 7 stars, but Michael is constantly adding books I recommend to his alleged TBR and apparently there they stay until the end of time. 5 stars will have to do until he starts working through my list so I have people to talk to about the books I love.
Since you just did a Books To Read episode, the following are my demands. Is a review the best place to post this? Nope. But my New Year’s resolution is to bring chaotic energy whenever and wherever possible, so here we go.
Fantasy? Kinda? Emotional, Character-Driven Fantasy? Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Dystopian/Survival/Horror/Women-Focused: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett. One of my absolute favorite books.
Horror: The Hollow Places and/or The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher. Really anything by her. Honorable mention: Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
World-Building Fantasy: City of Brass (trilogy) by S.A. Chakraborty
Historical Fiction/Adventure: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Mythology/Retellings: another T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer.
Honorable mention: The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Non-Mythological Retelling: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Storytelling: The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Sci-Fi: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. An absolute classic. Old-school dystopian sci-fi.
Feminism/Historical fiction: The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Arguably the first piece of feminist literature and one that helped create the feminist movement in the US.
Historical Fantasy: Spellbreaker (trilogy, but only books 1 and 2 are currently out) by Charlie N. Holmburg
Mystery: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Autobiographical: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Let me know when you’re all finished and I’ll start a new list for you. 😜”
Cjrose85 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/13/24