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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man
Nemo Ramjet
The story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform and colonize Mars. After a brief but violent civil war between the two planets, the genetically engineered survivors begin a new wave of colonization, spreading across the galaxy. Everything is looking up for the human race... until the colonies encounter the Qu, technologically advanced aliens on a religious mission to remake the universe. Although humans fight valiantly, the Qu easily overpower humanity; as punishment, the aliens decide to genetically modify the survivors, turning most of them into mindless, animalistic creatures before departing.

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Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes. After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success—not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone. But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.

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Shady Hollow
Juneau Black
The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera's cunning and quickness to crack the case.

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The Cozy Crimes of Shady Hollow
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Sponsored Limited Time Quest (Sep 1-Nov 30, 2026): Welcome to Shady Hollow! It’s a small town populated by friendly animal folks, from birds to bears, where the calm is marred only by the occasional murder.


August is already off to an AMAZING start and I have so many great updates to share with everyone trapped in the fever dream… I mean visiting the fever dream!! Visiting!!
As a reminder, the buddy reads for August are House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, IQ84 by Haruki Murakami, and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa!! It’s not too late to join any of these!!
I create a new form each month, so if you have already submitted the books you want to do as a buddy read, you don’t have to fill this out again, but you can! If you fill it out again, it just shows me that you are still interested in it - but I keep track of all of the buddy read requests on the back end too! Link to October’s Fever Dream Buddy Read Requests Here (spoiler: the new books that will be added to this quest after I post this are already added to this spreadsheet! They are all at the top of the list labeled with NEW to help you quickly identify them)
I choose the top 3 books that have requests in from the google forms (include the previous months) and here are the top picks for September!! I have linked the title to its Pagebound page if you want to check out the descriptions!
*Note: All three have had at least one person say they are willing to coordinate, but it’s always nice to have multiple coordinators! Coordinators help kick off the buddy read, but are not responsible for facilitating discussions in the forums (unless they want to!!). You can find more information on the role of the coordinators Here
To sign up for a buddy read just comment under one of my pinned posts below with the book title! If you are willing to help coordinate let me know in the comment!
Bunny by Mona Awad Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Audit is off to a wonderful start! If you have received a Fever Dreams badge (or leveled up) but haven’t gotten your congratulations gift from Management (and want one) oooooor if you have no idea what the Audit is check out this post for details so you can help me cheat I mean pass the Audit!!
Perhaps you have spotted me flying, okay fleeing, down the infinite hallway with a swarm of large winged books behind me. Firstly, I apologize if I disturbed you. I was a liiiiiittle frightened when they first arrived without warning, but wonderful news: that was Management’s gift to us all for the Audit!! The Gargoyles say the only way to make them stop chasing me is to add them to the Quest - so add them I shall!! They did mutter me that this is “a test meant to break me” seeing as Management has sent enough books that someone could climb a whole level of the Quest with these additions alone or something. To be honest, I kinda forgot to keep listening after I realized I could share these books with the Quest if I could fashion a net big enough to catch them! (And maybe the Gargoyles are jealous of my new winged companions… but don’t tell them I said that!! I think I’m finally starting to win them over - they haven’t thrown the hats and scarves I knitted for them in the trash this time, so I think they can see how great of a friend I could be now!!) Anyway, here are the books that I’m going to try and catch right after this!!
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Thank you @Ameliapei for being the first to recommend this book!)
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Thank you @meganori for being the first to recommend this book!)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tasha Mehta (Thank you @theliteratepanda for being the first to recommend this book!)
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Thank you @squirtle for being the first to recommend this book!)
Oh!! And before I go, don’t forget that I made a Quest Recommendation Shelf Linked Here to make it easier to see if a book has already been recommended for this Quest! If you don’t see the book on the shelf, feel free to comment it your recommendation under The Recommendation Post Linked Here!
Forever (literally) your humble servant helping make all of your fever dreams come true, AcidicChaos Head of Congratulatory Chaos Department Fever Dreams & Strange Realities, Inc.

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A Quest For The Future: Climate Fiction
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The climate is intrinsic to life on Earth. What happens when it changes? These books examine our reality and imagined futures, both dystopian and utopian, to offer us words of warning, but also hope.

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Time and Time Again
Chatham Greenfield
Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending—literally. On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August 6ths since, Phoebe has relived the same day: pancakes with Mom in the morning, Scrabble with Dad in the afternoon, and constant research into how to reach tomorrow and make it to her appointment with a doctor who may actually take her IBS seriously. Everything is exactly, agonizingly the same. That is, until the most mundane car crash ever sends Phoebe's childhood crush Jess crashing into the time loop. Now also stuck, Jess convinces Phoebe to break out of her routine and take advantage of their consequence-free days to have fun. From splurging on concert tickets, to enacting (mostly) harmless revenge, to all-night road trips, Jess pulls Phoebe further and further out of her comfort zone—and deeper in love with them. But the more Phoebe falls for Jess, the more she worries about what's on the other side of the time loop. What if Jess is only giving her the time of day because they're trapped with no other options? What if Phoebe's new doctor dismisses her chronic pain? And perhaps worst of all: What if she never gets the chance to find out?

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Honeyfires: A Sapphic Romance
Nora Fares
She wiped the starlight from my eyes. Petra Alves has survived things most people only see in nightmares. Two combat deployments. A field of wildfire. The weight of soldiers she couldn't save. She came back to San Jacinto, Arizona carrying all of it locked up inside her, and she learned to live there. Quietly. Alone. Running toward burning things because it was the only way she knew how to feel useful. She wasn't expecting Vera Montgomery. Golden-haired, blue-eyed, and dangerously optimistic, her new neighbor is everything Petra isn't. Soft where she's scarred. Warm where she's guarded. At home in a world made of books and vintage dresses and Jane Austen quotes. Vera is the kind of woman you look at once and never quite recover from. Petra knows this the moment she sees her standing in their hallway in a flower-print pink dress, guessing her name through a smile that makes the whole world tilt sideways. What follows is slow, and then all at once. Coffee and first dates and a kiss in a library that neither of them saw coming. A love that builds itself quietly in the space between two very different lives, until everything that matters most gets tested by fire. Because Petra is a helitack forewoman. She rappels from helicopters into active burns. She makes impossible calls with seconds to spare. And when a career-threatening wildfire forces her to choose between following orders and bringing her crew home alive, she makes the only choice she can live with—and loses almost everything else. Honeyfires is the story of what it costs to be brave, and what it means to finally let someone love you for it. It's sharp edges and soft hands. Nightmares and lavender baths. A woman who spent years surviving, finally learning how to stay. Explicit content. Guaranteed HEA. For readers who want their romance to wreck them a little before it heals them completely.

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat: A Feline Space Adventure
Argus .
In this inventive and heartfelt take on a dystopian space opera, humanity’s last hope comes complete with a space station, an attitude, and . . . whiskers?Civilization has fallen. The solar system is blanketed with the automated weapons of ancient wars, engineered plagues, hazardous waste, rogue AI, monsters from outside our dimension, artificial disasters, and nuclear climate change. Every moment of life on Earth is a brutal fight for survival. The people of Sol carry on, but hope is at a premium. They need something more. Someone with a plan, a savior, a hero.What they get is Lily. Owner of the last functional battle station for the last four hundred years by right of being the last living soul on it, Lily ad-Alice has spent all that time struggling to save lives, fend off loneliness, and operate human-made weapons controls with paws and meows. Four centuries of establishing protocols, figuring out how to utilize an irresponsibly large arsenal of orbital weaponry, and scraping by with what life support still functions.Lily doesn’t have a plan. She can’t even tell how haunted her home is. Every day is an endless stream of alarms and crises—it’s a lot for a lone desperate housecat to handle herself. But being the proprietor of the last piece of working orbital infrastructure in existence is a responsibility and duty she’s accepted anyway.Now things are changing again. Something big is looming, and everything Lily has scrambled for hundreds of years to achieve is at risk. But if she’s quick, maybe she can do some good. If she’s cunning, maybe she can adapt. If she’s smart, maybe she can build something that lasts this time. And if she’s very, very lucky, maybe she won’t have to do it alone.The hit science-fiction tale—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

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I Knew You Were Trouble
J.L. Simmonds
She's trying to solve a murder. Not fall for the girl she just met. From the author of Run Away With Me comes a YA sapphic grumpy x sunshine romance combined with a high-stakes scavenger hunt thriller, set against the backdrop of New York City. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston's queer love stories and Jennifer Lynn Barnes' twisty, puzzle-filled mysteries. She's trying to solve a murder. Not fall for the girl she just met. From the author of Run Away With Me comes a YA sapphic grumpy x sunshine romance combined with a high-stakes scavenger hunt thriller, set against the backdrop of New York City. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston's queer love stories and Jennifer Lynn Barnes' twisty, puzzle-filled mysteries. Kendra Walker is no stranger to the criminal underworld. Trained from young to take over the family antique business, she's well aware they specialize in trading stolen goods. So when Kendra's mom is 'accidentally' killed on the streets of New York, she suspects foul play. Months later, Alice De Lacy Mulligan visits Walker Antiques, searching for jewelry burgled from her family home. Frustrated by the police's inaction, she's committed to scouring every antique and pawn shop in the city. Kendra remembers the jewelry but finds it missing from the safe. With no record of sale and only a mysterious ticket for a Grand Central Station tour left behind, Kendra soon realizes her mom created a scavenger hunt across New York that she needs to follow and solve. Could there be a connection between the jewelry and her mom's murder? Joining forces with Alice, the girls work to solve the mystery. But it soon becomes apparent an infamous crime mob are interested in locating the jewelry too. Forced to use their wits and skills to stay one step ahead, the girls grow closer. But with Kendra at risk of meeting the same fate as her mom, how long will their romance last?

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A Viper Among Kings
Sydney Olivia
Brace yourself for an exhilarating epic fantasy trilogy with a diverse cast, polyamory, and chaotic sentient magic, for fans of V.E. Schwab and Antonia Hodgson. In the twisted city of Amaris, magic spawns from chaos. Prone to driving humans mad, it can only be wielded safely by the Wraiths—seven immortal beings magically bound to obey the king. Esme is the most notorious Wraith. She has spent the last century forced to kill on behalf of the nation that stole her from her homeworld while building a secret life for herself and her wife away from violence. That is, until the current king turns up murdered, and a magical will demands his successor be chosen through three trials. Esme cannot break the magical shackles that bind her, but she will suffer no more tyrants. She rigs the king's succession trials in favour of her chosen the righteous General Balthazar, who she can't help but fall for. As Esme weaves together the threads of the court on Balthazar's behalf amid a strange tide of sentient magic in the city and a growing war on the horizon, she will come face to face with Balthazar's bloody past, troubled present, and countless betrayals. He isn't the man Esme thought he was—but she was born to make and break kings.

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Scion
James Islington
John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell in this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few. My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever—limited resources be damned—there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent. So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone’s got to do it. Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it. Still. This next job...I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way. I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.