Review by pudseyrecommends - The Wax Child There are books that read you as much as you read them. The Wax Child is one of those.Ravn’s p...

This is literary horror in the most precise sense: not horror dressed up as literature, but literature that understands fear as an instrument of power, and shows you exactly whose hands are on it.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Mother Mary Comes To Me Roy doesn’t write sentences so much as sculpt them, pulling words from different cultures, idi...

A magnificent memoir about language, love, belonging, and what it truly costs to become yourself on your own terms. Read it slowly. Eat it.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Violently Departed Peacekeepers, death speakers, half-demon arsonists, demon hunters, and suspicious nuns. Not yo...

The Violently Departed by Sarah J. Daley

Fast, atmospheric, sharply written, and occasionally hellish in the best possible way.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Japanese Gothic The world of the samurai has always fascinated me for the way it balances beauty with brutalit...

Japanese Gothic By Kylie Lee Baker

It is dark, atmospheric, and intelligent, exploring shame, trauma, fatherhood, and the long shadow cast by patriarchal power.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - John of John Douglas Stuart has a preternatural ability to find the marrow in the bone. After the gritty, r...

John of John
Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart has mapped the topography of the human heart against the harshest of elements. John of John is a masterpiece of Hebridean heartbreak.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Clara & the Devil, Vol. 1 He’s tall, dark, and infernal... and I am officially ready to be corrupted, tee hee hee.I was ...

Clara & The Devil

This partnership between Olivie Blake and Little Chmura is an absolute dream.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Is This a Cry for Help? If you’d asked me a few weeks ago what the most stressful job on earth was, "librarian" probab...

Is This A Cry For Help?

resilience, integrity, and the freedom to consume whatever stories you want without the world telling you "no."

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The News from Dublin If you’ve ever read Brooklyn or Long Island, you know that Colm Tóibín doesn’t do "loud." He d...

The News From Dublin

slow-burn literary fiction that lingers for days 💫

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Dreadfuls Having previously read and loved the novel, the opportunity to revisit it in audio added a new...

Happy Release Day to The Dreadfuls

A compelling blend of historical detail, social commentary and youthful defiance, this is an enthralling and wickedly entertaining listen.

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Trans Day Of Visibility 🫶🏽🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽

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Currently reading… hoping to finish these in the coming week! As long as I don’t get distracted 😜😂

What are you hoping to finish before the month ends?!

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Minor Black Figures The must-read novel of Summer 2026 has arrived.Over one sweltering summer in New York, a young...

Minor Black Figures is a love story, but also a novel about ambition, belief, race, art-making, ethics and the dangerous pleasure of being truly seen.

The must-read novel of Summer 2026‼️

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Reformatory “Haints can be fun as friends, but you have to look out for yourself or you might die like Red...

The reformatory by Tananarive Due

horror rooted in truth, and that is what makes it unforgettable

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The Witch Finder by Tracy Whitwell

This was an absolute romp! funny, heartfelt, witchy

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Gripped by
Micaiah Johnson ‘s The Space Between Worlds

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Currently reading #thereformatpry by Tananarive Due

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Trial of Leopold and Loeb: Dickie & Babe I don’t normally read true crime, but I was immediately curious about this one because it’s th...

1h31 thrilling minutes! it absolutely delivers. I was completely wowed. I genuinely felt as though I were sitting in that courtroom.

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Boldly original, Holy Boy is an unsettling, gripping thriller […] as politically charged as it is compulsively readable.

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Thanks @picadorbooks.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social for the copy

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Dreadfuls The Dreadfuls by A. Rae Dunlop is a richly atmospheric historical mystery set in Victorian Wh...

I loved how Rae Dunlop makes Whitechapel come alive, from markets to the Ten Bells pub. Her sharp social commentary on misogyny, antisemitism, and class was on point.

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@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social for the arc

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Accessible, incisive, and bang up to date. Jones does an excellent job of breaking down and actively challenging persistent misinformation and disinformation about LGBTQ+ lives.

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And just like that… it’s February! 🌟 Top reads: The Crystal Vase (first 5⭐ of the year), It Would Be Night in Caracas, Leave the World Behind,
The Fox and the Devil,
The Eyes Are the Best Part
🎧 Heart The Lovee

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The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

Heated rivals meet the Knights of the Round Table in this historical romp!

A knight falls for his captive-turned-squire. enemies-to-lovers, political scheming, jousting tournaments and representation!

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Innamorata Innamorata by Ava Reid is a gothic tale of forbidden love set against a plague-ravaged world s...

🕯️ 💫Innamorata by Ava Reid is gothic romantasy soaked in plague, conquest, and inherited violence… still makes room for love. The kind that feels dangerous just for existing,

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Crystal Vase The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith is a gorgeous, gritty graphic novel that delivers an emot...

The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
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Cerulean blue, grief, and quiet power 💙📖 This is GOLD!

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✨ Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
✨ Outrage by Ellen Jones
✨ The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
✨ The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

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The long call by Amn Cleeves

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📚✨ Heart the Lover was my first Lily King novel, and I went in with no expectations, only to be completely hooked. A literary campus love story that grows into something more reflective and hopeful.

Addictive audiobook! 🎧💔✨

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Friend of the Family Koontz opens the novel with the line: “Every life is meaningful. Every life has the potential ...

“The only way to lift ourselves is by lifting others, and fulfilling that truth is the work of a lifetime.” Dean Koontz, The Friend Of The Family

Arrestingly humane!

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Found family, morally complex relationships, beautiful queer representation, and a richly researched historical setting that totally pulled me in. I flew through this and could not put it down.

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