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Fiction books acknowledging the Covid-19 pandemic Public

Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover, 2022, Alfred A. Knopf) Jennifer Dugan: The Ride of Her Life (2024, HarperCollins Publishers) Jennifer Dugan: Playing for Keeps (Hardcover, 2024) Jennifer Dugan: Love at First Set (2023, HarperCollins Publishers) Dahlia Adler: Going Bicoastal (Hardcover, 2023, St. Martin's Press)

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Poetry Public

John Burnside: Black Cat Bone (Paperback, Graywolf Press) Elis Monteverde Burrau: Till de redan frälsta (Hardcover, swedish language, 2025, Modernista) Michael Strunge: Kristallskeppet (Hardcover, swedish language, 1988, Borgen forlag)
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Kristian Lundberg: Låt oss förvandlas (Paperback, swedish language, 2017, Ellerströms)

 Ola Julén: Texter (Hardcover, swedish language, 2023, Nirstedt/Litteratur)
 

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Cooking Public

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Chris Ying, Ivan Orkin: Gaijin Cookbook (2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

 Zoey Xinyi Gong: The Five Elements Cookbook (Hardcover, english language, Harvest) Niki Segnit: Flavor Thesaurus (2010, Bloomsbury Publishing USA) Lola Milholland: Group Living and Other Recipes (2024, Spiegel & Grau LLC) Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water (Hardcover, 2021, Little, Brown and Company)
 

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My 2025 Favorites Public

Jamison Shea: Roar of the Lambs (2025, Holt & Company, Henry) Lex Noteboom: The Man with a Thousand Faces (Paperback, Union Square & Co.) Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (Paperback, 2013, Orbit) Margaret Killjoy: Sapling Cage (Paperback, 2024, Feminist Press at The City University of New York) Amanda Lee Koe: Sister Snake (2024, HarperCollins Publishers)

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Otherwise Award Winners Public

Dolki Min, Victoria Caudle: Walking Practice (Hardcover, 2023, HarperVia) Ray Nayler: Rakesfall (Hardcover, 2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) Emet North: In Universes (Hardcover, 2024, Harper) Rivers Solomon: Sorrowland (Hardcover, 2021, MCD) Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

An award encouraging the expl…

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If Books Could Kill Public

Thomas Chatterton Williams: Summer of Our Discontent (Hardcover, 2025, Alfred A. Knopf) Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo: He's Just Not That Into You (Hardcover, 2004, Simon Spotlight Entertainment) Malcolm Gladwell: Blink (2005, Time-Warner) Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee: In Covid's Wake (Hardcover, 2025, Princeton University Press) Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins: The Let Them Theory (Hardcover, 2024, Hay House)

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USA Public

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (EBook, 1990, Penguin Books Ltd.) Kyla Garcia, Tommy Orange, Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Narrator), Darrell Dennis (Narrator), Alma Cuervo (Narrator): There There (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Books on Tape) Gwendolyn Brooks, Margo Jefferson, Angela Lewis (Narrator): Maud Martha (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Faber & Faber) Annette Gordon-Reed, Karen Chilton (Narrator): On Juneteenth (AudiobookFormat, 2021, Recorded Books, Inc.)
 

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Learning Japanese with manga Public

あらゐけいいち: CITY（１） (Paperback, Japanese language, 2017, 講談社) らんま1/2（１） (Paperback, Japanese language, 1988, 小学館) Rumiko Takahashi: 境界のりんね（１） (Paperback, Japanese language, 2009, 小学館) Yoshito Usui: クレヨンしんちゃん（１） (Paperback, Japanese language, 1992, 双葉社) Ryû Mitsuse: 百億の昼と千億の夜 (Paperback, Japanese language, 1994, 秋田書店)

Manga and Japanese graphic no…

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Queer biological fantasy and horror Public

Mira Grant: Into the drowning deep (2017) T. Kingfisher: What Moves the Dead (Hardcover, 2022, Tor Nightfire) Noah Medlock: A Botanical Daughter (Paperback, 2024, Titan Books Limited) Alix E. Harrow: The Knight and the Butcherbird: A Short Story (Amazon Original Stories) Tiffany Morris: Green Fuse Burning (Paperback, Stelliform Press)

Queer protagonists being devo…

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National Book Award for Fiction Public

Percival Everett: James (Hardcover, 2024, Doubleday) Justin Torres: Blackouts (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Tess Gunty: The Rabbit Hutch (Hardcover, 2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) Jason Mott: Hell of a Book (Hardcover, 2021, Dutton) Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown (Hardcover, 2020, Pantheon Books)

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BIPOC Narrative Hopepunk Public

Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (2023, Penguin Publishing Group) S Qiouyi Lu: In the Watchful City (Paperback, 2021, Tordotcom, Tor.com) Benjanun Sriduangkaew: And Shall Machines Surrender (2019, Prime Books) Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

Fiction or nonfiction

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Shared on Fediverse Public

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count (Hardcover, 2025, Knopf) Jamison Shea: Roar of the Lambs (2025, Holt & Company, Henry)
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林, 語堂: Moment in Peking (1939)
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Laura Kate Dale: Stories of Autistic Joy (2023, Kingsley Publishers, Jessica)

 Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (Paperback, 2000, Perennial)
 

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