The Brief History of the Dead is a fascinating, odd (in the best sense of the word), and deeply inventive…
These aren't all the Hugo winners, just the ones I decided were book-like enough for this list. I've listed the…
The Kaiju Preservation Society is ridiculously fun. It’s easy to imagine author John Scalzi grinning like a maniac as he…
I haven't read all of these books, but I made the internet pinky-swear that there are indeed cats in all…
Women and authors of color really brought their A game in 2022. Holy cow. They're tearing it up. RIP your…
I’m a fan of Stephen King, and 11/22/63 is one of his best. There’s more humor than horror, and a…
With reality feeling stranger every day, it's nice to tuck into a book filled with the delightfully unreal, and in…
Connie Willis is one of the few authors capable of humor, humanity, and what must be an ungodly amount of…
Written in 1959, A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of the first real literary science fiction books, and an enduring,…
Upgrade is a fun, fast-paced near-future adventure by Blake Crouch, whose past two books I really enjoyed. In Upgrade, a…