Moonwise
10 best books like Moonwise (Greer Gilman): Mythago Wood, Silently and Very Fast, A Northern Light, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Don't Call Us Dead, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, Cannibal, The Fox's Tower and Other Tales, [insert] boy, Sacré Bleu
| Author | Robert Holdstock |
| ISBN | 0765307294 |
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping...
| 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 | Jennifer Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0152053107 |
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers...
| 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 | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 1596065826 |
Subterranean Press proudly presents a major new collection by one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and other acclaimed novels, now brings readers a treasure...
| Author | Safiya Sinclair |
| ISBN | 0803290632 |
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often...
The Fox's Tower and Other Tales
The Fox's Tower and Other Tales is a collection of flash fairytales, many of which gay, many of which featuring shapeshifting foxes and fox spirits, all of them delightful.
This was the book equivalent of a chocolate box. Every story is just a few pages, and maybe not all of them are as memorable,...
The next time someone tells you spoken word poets can’t make poems come to life on the page, send them to Danez Smith’s [insert] boy, a remarkable debut collection that puts that tired notion to bed once and for all. In these poems, Smith opens the reader to a world of desire, longing, and deep mourning...
“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.”
—Carl Hiassen
“[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.”
—Washington Post
“If there’s...
Five suburban mall rats and a washed up Goth singer find themselves stranded in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey where they discover two horrifying truths: The Jersey Devil, hellspawn of folklore and legend, is real; and New Jersey (as many already suspected) is the gateway to Hell!
With the help...
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...
