Last update: Sep 16th 2022
Since I read many of those books before I was a regular reviewer, links lead to the books’ Goodreads pages.
Also, not a book, but I would highly recommend the show Arcane, which I reviewed here.
Fantasy
- The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan (review)
- The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (review)
- The Breath of the Sun (review) and Dead Collections (review) by Isaac Fellman
- The Seventh Perfection by Daniel Polansky (review)
- Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang (review)
- The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (review)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (review)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (review)
- The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth (review)
- A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson (review)
- The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen (review)
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan (review)
- The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (review)
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (review)
- Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (review)
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (review)
- The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley (review)
- City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer (review)
- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (review)
- The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles (review)
- City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (review)
- The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (review)
- Vita Nostra by Sergey & Marina Dyachenko (review)
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater (review)
- The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin
- The Balance Academy by S.E. Robertson
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
- The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
- Gentleman Bastard by Scott Lynch
- The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden (review book 2, book 3)
Sci-fi
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Wayfarers by Becky Chambers (review book 2, book 3)
- Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (review)
- Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley (review)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (review)
- Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (available to read for free here)
- Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason (review)
- Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason
- Dune by Frank Herbert
Historical romance:
- Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian (review)
- Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian (review)
- Seven Summer Nights by Harper Fox (review)
- Proper English by K.J. Charles (review)
Nonfic
- The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (review)
- Émilie du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser (review)
- Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford (review)
- The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman (review)
- If This Is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
- Hustlers, Harlots and Heroes by Krista D. Ball
- What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank by Krista D. Ball