Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
10 best books like Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (Greer Gilman): His Dark Materials, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Silently and Very Fast, Year Zero, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Don't Call Us Dead, Thomas the Rhymer, The Best of Lucius Shepard, Black Movie, As 100 Melhores Histórias da Mitologia
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 0440238609 |
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.
These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering...
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
| Author | Roxane Gay |
| ISBN | 0062413503 |
Powerful. Raw. Stunning writing. Pretty much everything I would expect from a collection put together by Roxane Gay.
What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems like it is a question of when, not if, a woman will encounter some kind of sexual violence?
This is book about rape and...
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 1936896001 |
Fantastist Catherynne M. Valente takes on the folklore of artificial intelligence in this brand new, original novella of technology, identity, and an uncertain mechanized future.
Neva is dreaming. But she is not alone. A mysterious machine entity called Elefsis haunts her and the members...
| Author | Rob Reid |
| ISBN | 0345534417 |
An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.
Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of...
| Author | Kaveh Akbar |
| ISBN | 1938584678 |
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe
This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553586971 |
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
| Author | Lucius Shepard |
| ISBN | 1596061332 |
Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America—not the heart of the United States or of North America, but all of America—and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. His earliest stories, the ones that made his name a quarter of a century ago, were set in the jungles...
Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make "a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children/ smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol." That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way saying &...
As 100 Melhores Histórias da Mitologia
A Guerra de Tróia. Os Doze Trabalhos de Hércules. A história de amor de Cupido e Psique. A desgraça de Édipo. O retorno de Ulisses a Ítaca. As maiores batalhas do mundo antigo, o nascimento dos mais célebres heróis de então, os principais episódios envolvendo deuses e deusas do Olimpo, mortais,...
| Author | Corey Van Landingham |
| ISBN | 0814251870 |
In Corey Van Landingham’s Antidote, love equates with disease, valediction is a contact sport, the moon is a lunatic, and someone is always watching. Here the uncanny coexists with the personal, so that each poem undergoes making and unmaking, is birthed and bound in an acute strangeness. Elegy...
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 1934648353 |
A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyder. "Structured around a series of folktale motifs,...
The wanderings of Odysseus could end only if he carried one of his ship’s oars far enough inland that people, knowing nothing of the sea, would mistake it for a winnowing fan. At that place, if he offered sacrifice to Poseidon, he would find peace. In “The Boatman’s Cure,” the short story that...
Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting
| Author | Shivanee Ramlochan |
| ISBN | 1845233638 |
Shivanee is the definitive modern poetic voice of the Caribbean.
Most poetry is obsessively circling something divine/sublime. They yearn, and if lucky, can produce one beautiful line. One dazzling line.
Every line in every poem in Haunting is a surprise. It is wrenching. It is...
"Smash this circus to the ground.
Howl fiercely at the moon."
4.5/5 stars
The Girl Aquarium by Jen Campbell was one of my most anticipated releases of 2019, for multiple reasons. Not only did I love Jen’s previous works, especially her latest short-story collection The Beginning...
Still Life with Feeding Snake
| Author | John Burnside |
| ISBN | 1910702412 |
From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the other. As we grow, that world...
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0809550741 |
Rating this collection after reading it only once feels unfair. I am fearful that I missed certain things and I want to read the book again in the hopes of excising that fear.
Valente loves words. I knew this since reading Palimpsest, which I also highly recommend. Valente in verse is even more...
Scenting the Dark and Other Stories
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 1596062673 |
These things await you: Love and hope in the aftermath of a very personal environmental apocalypse. Fear that comes in being trapped in your own body, enslaved by your own faulty synapses. Dread in a cure that works in unexpected ways. Discovery of what you've always known, but couldn't face, about your...
