I don’t usually find myself reaching for romance or slice-of-life books, but I gave Delilah Green Doesn’t Care a shot (and for what it is, it’s solid). The sapphic book club I’m in voted this for our May read, and I appreciated the sapphic forward part of it most. Blake’s writing is accessible and breezy,…
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“Hungerstone” Kat Dunn
This book had such a strong foundation of gothic atmosphere, eerie pacing, and an emotionally layered approach to horror, but it ultimately didn’t land for me in the way I hoped. I loved the moodiness, the slow burn, and the ghost-drenched tone of it all. Kat Dunn is clearly talented when it comes to building…
“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” Marlon James
Just wow. This book is a fever dream in the best, boldest, and most bewildering way possible. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s a hallucinatory epic, a brutal reimagining of African mythology and folklore that feels both ancient and startlingly new. It demands your full attention. Marlon James writes with…
“Milk Fed” Melissa Broder
Some books make you feel something visceral, something physical, something that knots your stomach and prickles your skin in ways you weren’t prepared for. Milk Fed is an experience as much as it is a novel. Melissa Broder takes hunger in all its forms and turns it into something raw, indulgent, and deeply unsettling. At…
“Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke” Eric LaRocca
A novella that grips you by the throat and refuses to let go, Eric LaRocca’s Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterclass in unsettling storytelling. It’s the kind of book that leaves a pit in your stomach, a lingering unease you can’t quite shake. LaRocca crafts an intimate horror that crawls…
“Exquisite Corpse” Poppy Z. Brite
Poppy Z. Brite delivers a fever dream of horror in Exquisite Corpse, blending the grotesque with the beautiful in a way that only they can. This book is visceral, disturbing, and unapologetically macabre. But beneath the blood and brutality lies something undeniably magnetic. As a queer reader, I was especially drawn to how Brite weaves…
“Carmilla” J. Sheridan Le Fanu
It’s fascinating how Carmilla predates Dracula yet remains criminally underrated, given its lush prose, atmospheric tension, and groundbreaking portrayal of intimacy between women. As a lesbian reader, this book struck a deeply personal chord with me. It’s one thing to find queer subtext in old literature; it’s another to see it unapologetically woven into the…
A Tempest Storm 