Unwritten Rules by K.D. Casey

contemporary romance, sports, how can you not be romantic about baseball

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

sci-fi, short stories, will make your ears pop, writing is technology??, maybe we're all already cybrogs???

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

high fantasy, lowkey Lancelot/Arthur/Guinevere, they-don't-write-'em-like-this-anymore core

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

nonfiction, politics, the smartest woman u know peers into the abyss and the abyss stares back, the abyss is Naomi Wolf's Twitter account

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

sci-fi, dystopian, GOATed anarchist fiction, what if the only possible utopia is the never-ending interrogation of power

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

fantasy, romance, enemies to lovers for non-cowards, "problematic fave" as a badge of utmost honor

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

historical fiction, Victorian lady scientist (non-twee), what if you held every seemingly irreconcilable contradiction gently in your hands

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

essays, short stories, writing about writing about writing ad infinitum, nodoby was doing it like the Russians