"Toxic lesbian vampires," The Godfather-inspired Southern noir, a historical and personal look at land ownership in Hawai'i, and more.
There's a hellish romance, a 1910s merman romance, and four gay Asian men finding family in each other in the early aughts.
The books span from a very recent mega-bestselling thriller to 2024's It book, to a book by a certain Georgian-era fave.
Get ready for literary fiction set in Iran, a graphic memoir by a queer icon, a "toxic lesbian vampire" novel by a fantasy giant, and more.
There's the latest novel by poet Ocean Vuong, an indie, coming-of-middle-age Indigenous tale, a look at the cost of patriarchy, and more.
There are fantastical pirate adventures, a rekindled steamy summer romance, and even a classic by a modern great.
The books include *thee* book of 2024, a mystery with a 20-year-old case, and a meditation of the granularity of relationship dynamics and identity.
There's a witchy, Murder on the Orient Express-esque Golden Age mystery, moving memoirs by an activist and an Indigenous woman, and a queer story set in a changing land.
It's just the thing you need to remedy that doom scrolling.
Erica goes over a nice mix of new YA books by AAPI authors, while Kelly has a great convo with Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia, authors of the new rom-com On Again, Awkward Again.