Shelf Seeking is a series of weekly posts highlighting the best books releasing that week. Psychological horror, historical whodunit, a collection of stories, feminist history, and a thrilling romantic fantasy! This blog post may contain affiliate links. To know more about them, please read my disclaimer. The Nightingale Affair, Tim Mason – 1867, A historical whodunit…
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Read the Stars is a monthly series centred around books as astrological signs. These spiteful, self-destructing, and spectacular stories featuring pandemics and prophecies prove they’re an Aries. This blog post may contain affiliate links. To know more about them, please read my disclaimer. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Aries do a lot of things out of spite,…
Read MoreShelf Seeking: Magical Massacre, Mangroves, and Mothers — Best New Books Out This Week
Shelf Seeking is a series of weekly posts highlighting the best books releasing that week. Gothic horror, daughters in fiction, fantastical rifts, romantic scripts & more! This blog post may contain affiliate links. To know more about them, please read my disclaimer. Small Animals Caught in Traps by C.B. Bernard: A washed-up boxer making ends meet…
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Mango, Marriage, Menu — 10 South Asian Books Out In April 2023
April is here—is earth rotating a little too fast?—and it brings with it some interesting South Asian releases. There are quite a few series instalments, from middle-grade adventures to dark fantasy sagas. The domestic backdrop of suspense stories is calling and romances are playing out on cruises and takeaway notes. For the first time, such…
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21 New & Upcoming Books With Autistic Characters — World Autism Awareness Day
Today is World Autism Awareness Day and it makes for a great opportunity to share fiction recommendations that feature autistic characters. While there’s definitely a long way to go, there is a beautiful growth in neurodivergent visibility across media. Whether it’s the recent TV show, A Kind of Spark, or the recently announced adaptation of…
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International Women’s Day — 40 SFF Books By Women Of Color To Read This Year
Women’s Day brings a great opportunity to celebrate books by women, especially when one remembers how historic women authors had to use male pseudonyms to protect themselves from censorship, prejudice, and the common misconception of having written something less important than the male authors. Women of color had to deal with additional judgements or an…
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Murder Mystery, Love Triangle, and 1970s Paris — 10 South Asian Books Out In March 2023
March is looking excellent for all the South Asian books releasing this month. There seems to be something for everyone, from fun romance to murder mystery. Rajani LaRocca’s follow up to the Newbery Honor Book, Red, White, and Whole is exciting as it brings twin sisters and music and prose and poetry together. Balli Kaur…
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Shelf Seeking — Piano, Prophecy, Police: Eight Books Out This Week
2023 is here with exciting books! And for the very first week of the year, there are some everyone must check out. Whether it’s a translated fiction about music or a thriller set in Mumbai, there’s something for everyone: a rival romance, a gripping historical fiction, exciting debut fantasy novels, and more! Don’t forget to…
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12 New Books Hitting Shelves Today
September is the best time to buy a book because of the cozy atmosphere that is soon rolling in: from the newest release by a Pulitzer-finalist author to a realistic fiction that takes readers to the streets of Calcutta, India; from sequels of loved fantasy books like Once Upon a Broken Heart and Gideon the…
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21 Books Set Against The Backdrop of British Colonisation of India, The Subcontinent’s Independence & The Partition
Books often unravel stories against the backdrop of difficult times, and sometimes the pain truly spills across the pages for the past it’s influenced by. The period of British colonisation was undoubtedly traumatic, leaving the subcontinent bloodied, divided and looted. So while fiction books can never compare to reading and remembering real accounts, they can…
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