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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