Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley
“Bro!” begins Headley’s delightful new translation of Beowulf, and from there unravels a tale of heroism and machismo and masculinity that honors the origins of the epic poem while also carrying it forward.
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
As he travels to Olondria to sell the family harvest, Jevick meets a young woman on the verge of death.
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Mahit Dzmare is abruptly ordered to report for duty as the new ambassador to the Teixcalaan empire—with no word as to what might have happened to her predecessor.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
When young Jonathan Strange sets it upon himself to become a magician, he ends up as Mr. Norrell’s only pupil—but it’s a dry sort of magic Norrell preaches, absent any of the mystery or terror of the old days.
Down Girl
Kate Manne
Kate Manne’s core premise is this: sexism is a set of beliefs that positions women as inferior to men, while misogyny is the system that enforces and polices women’s subordination.
The Book of Lamps and Banners
Elizabeth Hand
Cass Neary needs to get home, but a string of suspicious deaths has accumulated behind her, and she isn’t sure where is safe.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
“I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.”
Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway
“Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future,” declares Donna Haraway in the opening paragraph of this astonishing book.
What Can a Body Do?
Sara Hendren
Among the core premises of this provocative and deeply humane book is this: disability is in part a product of the intersection of a body and the built world, where the latter often presumes there is only one way a body can be.
Alone
Richard E. Byrd
In 1934, Richard Byrd—famous for a previous expedition to the Antarctic—decided to over winter on the ice near the South Pole, alone.
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
The titular essay in this collection concerns the flight of swifts: twice a day, at twilight, they fly high up into the sky, a movement Macdonald describes as both a devotion and a kind of planning.
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
Objects are disappearing: not the things themselves, although that is soon to follow, but the memory of them, the recognition and understanding of what they are and have been.
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
In this sequel to the completely badass Gideon the Ninth, Harrow has become an immortal lyctor by consuming Gideon’s soul. Or has she?
The Invincible
Stanislaw Lem
Arriving on a distant planet in search of a sister ship that has disappeared, the crew of The Invincible discover a new form of life: tiny, autonomous robots that seem to have evolved into expert killing machines.
Beyond Survival
Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Featuring essays and interviews from grassroots activists and practitioners of transformative justice, this collection offers clear, practical, and brave advice about how to respond to violence and crises in your community.
Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
In Australia, a young boy escapes from the settler-run school where he and other children are trained for a life of enslavement.
Memoir of a Race Traitor
Mab Segrest
“I have written this treatise on the souls of white folks with an urgency that it be exemplary, a template into which white readers can read themselves,” begins Mab Segrest, in this rare and fearless book.
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Decades after a pandemic has ravaged the planet, a roving group of actors and musicians called The Symphony return to a small town and find that things are not as they were before.
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
A clear and thorough indictment of every part of the institution that is policing—and an urgent call to end it.
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Set in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, The Shadow King centers Hirut, an orphan living as a servant in the home of Kidane, and his wife, Aster.