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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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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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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10 New SFF Books of May 2022 To Read
May is truly bringing some of the most anticipated books across the genres, but especially on the shelves of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. From a fresh take on Disney’s Brave by the New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Cycle series to an adult debut inspired by Middle Eastern stories and a…
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23 Graphic Novels To Get A Lead on Your Reading Challenge
This might come across as a surprise to you but 2022 has been here for a month now. Yes, yes! I’m shocked; how was January the slowest month that went by too fast? Anyway, February has brought all of us two possibilities: either your yearly reading challenge is right on track or you’re so far…
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February is ready to bring some of the most anticipated books of 2022, from fantasy to contemporary. Debut authors like Laila Sabreen and Vanessa Lenare stepping in with a young adult contemporary and a young adult fantasy respectively; and Amari and the Great Game is a sequel to one very well received middle-grade fantasy of last year.
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