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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

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Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

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i understand i literally JUST started this book but as i’m reading it i’m plotting how the stage show would work

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Pedro the Vast

Simón López Trujillo

Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance . . . In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of López Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro's kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn't ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro’s condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax that readers will never forget. For readers of Jeff Vandermeer and Samanta Schweblin, López Trujillo is a next-generation Bolaño with a fresh, speculative edge and a mind that's always one step ahead of us.

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Pedro the Vast

Simón López Trujillo

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Jun 06, 2026

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Fun adaptation of what happened with the Endurance, although I still found it somewhat lacking. I think it would have worked better if it was less (?) episodic, although I'm sure it's in part formatted like that because it is geared towards a younger audience. Still, I can't imagine gaining much from this if it was the first book you've read about Shackleton. It was not the easiest to follow.

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Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity: A More Than Two Essentials Guide (3)

Alyssa Gonzalez

Too often, the neurodivergent community is marginalized, de-sexualized or patronized. Neurodivergent people are often not seen as part of the romantic or sexual landscape, let alone as people who can have multiple partners. However, the fact that neurodivergent people do not see the world or operate within it as other people do makes nonmonogamy both uniquely challenging and uniquely well-suited to them. This book is for neurodivergent people considering or practicing nonmonogamy. Its goal is to help neurodivergent people understand how well-suited they are to the polyamorous life, and to help them recognize and manage the challenges that being neurodivergent can bring to nonmonogamy. It is also for the partners and potential partners of neurodivergent people, to encourage them to understand different perspectives and to help them be understanding, accommodating and well-informed. Nomonogamous relationships do not belong exclusively to the neurotypicals, but to us all.,

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Queer Polyam 🖤❤️💙

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Stories featuring queer, polyam main characters! Mostly adult books, but contains some YA as well. Although the book doesn't have to have a heavy romantic focus, the polyam rep must be in the MCs, not in side characters. 🫶 (Note: some books in this list are series starters that don't contain polyamory until after the first book!)

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Dead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle: A Weird West Anthology

The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

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The Devil's Workshop

Jáchym Topol

'The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That's where the deepest graves are. But no one knows about it.' A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago, but its walls still cast their long shadows and some of the inhabitants are quite determined to not to allow anyone to forget. When the camp is marked for demolition, one of the survivors begins a campaign to preserve it, quickly attracting donations from wealthy benefactors, a cult-like following of young travellers, and a steady stream of tourists buying souvenir t-shirts. But before long, the authorities impose a brutal crack-down, leaving only an 'official' memorial and three young collaborators whose commitment to the act of remembering will drive them ever closer to the evils they hoped to escape. Bold, brilliant and blackly comic, The Devil's Workshop paints a deeply troubling portrait of a country dealing with its ghosts and asks: at what point do we consign the past to history?

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May 12, 2026

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0

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shout out to justin from my local indie who recommended this to me to help me get out of a reading slump bc it worked. I read the first 60 pages in like the first day and a half but read the rest today in one sitting and what the fuck!!! an absolute fucking trip, and a treat for unreliable narrator enjoyers

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Poly fiction recs

Hi all! I'm look for polyamorous fiction book recs that are well-written and feature polyamory, preferably from an author who knows what they're talking about, and is NOT a why choose/harem/reverse harem romance book (I find them tropey and poorly written, but if there are exceptions, lemme know!)

-The relationship doesn't have to be the main plot (in fact, it's nicer if it's not) -Ideally it's the MC who's poly, not just supporting characters -I don't really read the romance genre much and contemporary romance can be a hard sell :/ -I love fantasy and sci-fi but will honestly take anything if polyamory is explored well -Bonus points for Asian characters -I've already dnf'd Iron Widow :')

Thanks in advance!

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The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

Based on a real-life seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child tells in vivid prose the story of Christenze Kruckow, a noblewoman long pursued by a scandal of sorcery. People whisper that in her wake one finds illness, death, and unsettling behaviour by pigs and cats. Some even say she once fashioned out of wax a child, an instrument of the most sinister magic. Christenze will flee the rumours to Aalborg, that great city of seawater and mist. But even there suspicion and fear rule, and once a rumour of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove hard to shake…

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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

Ernest Shackleton

In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe. In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive. What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance. This is their story, as told by the man who led them.

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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Romantasy for the Queers!

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Romantasy and romantic/erotic fantasy reads starring queer characters! (Recs are welcome, but I'd like to encourage uplifting queer authors first and foremost! For series, I'll just put book 1 unless they can be read as standalones!)

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While I'm a little hesitant about this novel, given what I've seen in the reviews and forums, I will say the audiobook narrator is FIRE--Adam Lazarre-White could read the phone book at this point, and it would sound amazing. Definitely makes me want to get all the Sinners Bleed on audio as well (and gives me an excuse for a re-read!)

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"The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."

"LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."

Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!

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