If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo is a young adult novel focusing on the challenges of transgender students. The book is partly based on the author’s experience as a young trans girl. Most trans teens pass through difficult times due to the...

Little, Brown, the publisher of L.C. Rosen's Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) (2018), described Rosen's book as "Riverdale meets Love, Simon." Jack of Hearts follows the eponymous Jack, a young man who enjoys having sex. Despite the ostracization...

We Are Not Broken is a memoir by George Matthew Johnson, published in 2021. Johnson self-identifies as a queer Black American author. He is a writer of journalism, history, and fiction as well as an activist for both LGBTQ and Black American...

All Boys Aren't Blue is a memoir published by George M. Johnson in 2020. Johnson is a self-described queer Black American whose pronoun preference is "they." Johnson is a published author, a working journalist, and a liberal activist supporting...

Twilight in Delhi was Ahmed Ali’s first novel, set around 1911 to 1919, giving a descriptive image of India’s changing social, political, and cultural climate post colonialism, and recounting the state of Muslims in India during that time....

Rendezvous with Rama is the work which brought author Arthur C. Clarke back fully into the spotlight of science fiction writing after several years of relative inactivity. Indeed, the novel brought the legendary writer back with a bang as it won...

“Tempest”, by Julie Cross, is a young adult science fiction novel. Its main theme is the exploration of time travel wrapped within the young adult romance and angst tropes.

The novel is set in 2009 and follows a boy called Jackson, who has the...

“Robopocalypse” is a science fiction novel written by Daniel H. Wilson. The novel explores the very realistic fear of artificial intelligence, that has been plaguing humanity for decades. The novel is set in a world overrun by war that is being...

“Sleeping Giants” by Sylvain Neuvel, is a science fiction novel and a first part of the series called the “Themis Files”. What’s interesting about this novel is its atypical style of narration. The plot is told through dialogues and documents...

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is considered to be one of legendary science fiction writer Robert Heinlein’s greatest novels. Originally appearing in serialized form in Worlds of If between December 1965 and April 1966, it was ultimately published...

Logan’s Run is a novel co-written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Originally published in 1967, it is a work of science fiction portraying a dystopic future in which nobody lives past the age of twenty-one. This self-imposed mass...

“Saying Goodbye to Yang” is a short story by author Alexander Weinstein found in his collection titled Children of the New World. The story is the opening tale in that 2016 volume and takes place in a futuristic America where both...

Way Station is a novel by Clifford D. Simak published in 1963 that first appeared under the title Here Gather the Stars as a two-part submission to Galaxy Magazine in the summer of that same year. Simak had already published multiple short stories...

“Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, is a novel that falls into the genre of science fiction. The very successful novel is an exploration of the religious themes, humanity and its imperfection set in, typical for the genre, space setting.

The...

Borne is VanderMeer’s latest science fiction novel, which received global recognition because of its creativity and touching narrative. The Fourth State (UK) first published the novel in April 2017 in the United Kingdom. VanderMeer's early life...

Hold Back the Stars is a debut science fiction novel by Katie Khan, published by Simon and Schuster Publishers (U.S.) in 2017. The Penguin Random House also published the same novel in the United Kingdom in the same year and translated it into 21...

“The Ninth Metal” by Benjamin Percy is a science fiction novel with elements of thriller mystery. It is a part of the “Comet Cycle” trilogy, and the opening sentence of the novel goes: “It begins with a comet.” Therefore, it is safe to assume that...

“The Book of Joan” by Lidia Yuknavitch is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian world. Lidia Yuknavitch is an award-winning writer, who is not only known for her fiction, but also her nonfiction work and the book called “The Misfit’s...

“Time Salvager” is a science fiction novel written by Wesley Chu. The novel is set in a dystopian world and explores the theme of time travel. It is part of a series of the same title.

The novel follows James, an almost retired cronman, who is...

Ninth House is an occult fantasy novel by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo, famously known for the Shadow and Bone trilogy. It was published in 2019 by Flatiron Books. The cover was designed by art director Keith Hayes.

Set in Connecticut,...

Young Mungo is a queer coming-of-age novel written by Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart. It is set to be published on 5th April 2022 by Grove Press and on 14th April by Picador. As a follow-up to the Booker Prize winner and New York Times...

Sea of Tranquility is a Sci-Fi novel by Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel. Published in 2022 by Knopf Publishing, the novel explores humanity's exploration and colonization of space for a period of three centuries. Beginning on earth in the...

Black Leopard Red Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. Released as the first installation in the planned Dark Star trilogy, the novel was published in 2019 by Riverhead Books. The second novel in the trilogy is titled ...

Moon Witch, Spider King is a fantasy novel written by Jamaican author Marlon James. It is set to be published by Riverhead Books on February 15th, 2022. The novel is the second installment in the Dark Star trilogy that was preceded by National...