THE BOOK GARDEN
Welcome to the book garden :) This is a giant list of all things books! I read speculative fiction, mystery and non-fiction (history/current affairs). I also review ARCS on NetGalley and focus on books that are diverse, debut, indie speculative fiction written by women/nonbinary authors. An additional aspect I watch out for is content warnings - I do not want to read anything that has triggers for graphic scenes of gender-based violence against women.
FAVORITES / RECOMMENDATIONS (LINK TBD)
ARC TBR
- Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (Dec 1 2026)
- The Archaeology of Falling Worlds by Megan Chee (Feb 23 2027)
PRIORITY READS - SPOOKY SEASON TBR (LINK TBD)
FAV BOOK BLOGS
AARDVARK PICKS
- This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud
- We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler
- The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden
- The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
TO BE READ:
PHYSICAL TBR
books on my shelf that i'd like to read:
- A Day of Breath by Darby Cox
- The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope
- The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium: A Novel by Lexie Sharabianlou
- House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Morbid Curiosities by S. Hati
- Flightless by Marie Parks
- The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a
- Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot
- Botany of Empire by Banu Subramaniam
- LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana
- We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
- House of Dusk by Deva Fagan
- An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita Green Witch Cycle #1
- In the Dark I See You by Mallika Narayanan
- These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter (Wyrdos Trilogy #1)
- The Launch Party by Lauren Forry
- Moonlight Murder by Uzma Jalaluddin (Detective Aunty Investigates #2)
- We Are Made of Scars and Starlight by Nicole Zelniker
- Event Horizon by Balsam Karam
- The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays by Andrea Hairston
- Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht
- The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely (Divine Thrall #1)
- Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
- The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
- The Nightward by R.S.A. Garcia
TBR THAT I DON'T HAVE YET (OR LIBRARY/LIBBY POTENTIALS)
- Bound by Fury by Noelle Monét
- Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited-and the Fight to Retake Control by Lisa E. Davis
- A Devil in Every Dark Corner by Amanda Braun Boe
- Death and Other Occupational Hazards by Veronika Dapunt
- Moonlight and Dust by Jasmin McGaughey
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox by Katrina Kwan
- Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney - The Halls of the Dead by S.M. Hallow
- (LIBRARY REQUESTED) Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K. England (Everyday Magic #1)
- Immortal Game by Allison Saft
- The Whisperer in White by Y. R. Liu
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
- A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
- When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio One World Essentials
- A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
BLOG POSTS: