hedgehog

▷🇨🇦🇸🇪 living in Sweden 🔜 London ▷@hedgehoglibrary on insta ▷started reading again in 2025 - mostly fantasy, sci-fi, litfic, speculative ▷collector of shiny special editions ▷nb, queer, they/them

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All Goldsboro Fellowship/GSFF Picks (2020-2026)

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79 books

Books picked for Goldsboro's fantasy and sci-fi focused subscription - Fellowship! All are limited special editions that come signed and numbered, often with unique designs.

Subscription was formerly known as GSFF.

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Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1)

Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)

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All Broken Binding SF&F Sub Picks

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9 books

All picks from The Broken Binding's monthly Science Fiction & Fantasy subscription box (focused on new releases)

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The Fires of December (Hoid's Travails, #3)

Brandon Sanderson

In the next Cosmere standalone novel, Hoid has an epic tale to share: In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a young woman named December learns a devastating plague is on its way. But who will believe her? Against impossible odds, she sets sail up the River Violet to warn the king's court, determination—and wisdom beyond her years—burning in her eyes. Along the way she’ll navigate incredulous royal officials, twisted court intrigue, and a roguish count with only her wits and her new friends: a talkative priestess and a fledgling fashion designer.

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The Memory Police

Yōko Ogawa

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere. *pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet

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Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

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Cinder House

Freya Marske

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Cinder House

Freya Marske

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher.Ella is a haunting.Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.You think you know Ella's the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.Rediscover a classic fairy tale in this debut novella from "the queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon).At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Solace House

Will Maclean

A brilliant, towering, puzzle-box novel about perfect summers and forbidden knowledge, somewhere in the mad interstice of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and A.S. Byatt’s Possession. Summer, 1993, and university student Alex Lane finds himself at the end of the summer term, broke and without plans. When offered the chance to join students – including beautiful, mercurial Ella – clearing out Solace House, a Victorian residence left by reclusive hoarder Edwin Flayne, he accepts. Initially the house seems ordinary, if slightly mad. But sorting through junk, they discover Flayne’s journals detailing his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of strange place Bewise, and his belief in another parallel realm, with coded instructions for reaching it. One of the students becomes increasingly obsessed with the house’s secrets and gaining forbidden knowledge – assuming they’re willing to sacrifice everything and everyone.

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Exit Party

Emily St. John Mandel

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time. 2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some good news: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong... Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world. Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.

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shanethe_readingrat

how to still read when life is being Capital-S Stressful?

hello everybody. i’ve had a lot of majorly-stressful events happen lately (i’ll take all the hugs you’ve got🫂), and because of that, i’m having an extremely difficult time reading anything, even when i have the time and genuinely want to. i’ve just ended up scrolling on reddit or PB or pinterest or whatever instead of doing what will actually help relax me and what i want to do in that time (reading!). would love any tips you all have in regards to not defaulting to scrolling on your phone during stressful times (apps that block other apps for certain times, screenzen for example, really don’t seem to work for me unfortunately. they work for roughly two weeks and then i just start repeatedly turning them off without a care in the world for a streak being broken or any external motivators like that).

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hExxyWitch

Books are getting more and more digestible

I’ve recently noticed that newer books are easier too read. The metaphors are obvious, the descriptions short and everything is laid out for you, giving the reader no need to THINK and INTROSPECT on what they are reading. Don’t get me wrong I am happy people are reading and that publishing is accessible to everyone! Despite this I feel as though books are getting dulled down at an ad nauseam. Am I the only one noticing this??

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What literary awards do you follow?

This year I've, for the first time, intentionally read a book from a literary award's longlist (it was from the International Booker). Can't say it was really an enjoyable read, but now I am longing to try doing it again with a different award. Maybe you have your faves that you recommend giving a chance?

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