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Collection of 4 book covers from Jo Walton's reading list

Jo Walton’s Reading List: April & May 2025

Unhinged multiverse physics, romantic mysteries, and Homeric fanfic...

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Detail from the cover of Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

How to Break a Heart: Subverting the Hero’s Breakup Trope

Examining one of romantasy's often-unquestioned tropes.

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Cover of The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

Read The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst: Chapters 1 and 2

A cozy fantasy nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and hone...

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Cover of Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth

Wind and Truth Reread: Chapters 69-71

Logic puzzles, philosophical debates, and mural-stabbing.

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Cover of Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata.

Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World Might Give You Nightmares

Vanishing world is set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and...

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Cover of Never the Roses by Jennifer K. Lambert.

Read an Excerpt From Never the Roses by Jennifer K. Lambert

The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired, exhausted from fighting the endless wars of kings and qu...

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Cover of The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling.

We Are Saved: The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

A meaty, troubling novel about the allure and price of desire… and lots of cannibalism.

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The Selfie of Horror: Hildur Knutsdottir’s The Night Guest (Part 4)

Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic h...

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Detail from the cover of Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore

From the Margins: Remixing Literary Classics to Center Trans Stories

A new series of novels reframes the literary canon, flipping the script on familiar narratives.

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Detail from the cover of Watchstar

Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity

Tales of dissidents, dissenters, and iconoclasts taking on the status quo...

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Cover of A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid.

Read an Excerpt From A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid

Return to the immersive, lush, and dreamlike world of the dark academia fantasy A Study in Drown...

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