#cherie Johnson

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[retrogoldenmemories]

[trusoulchristmas]

[trnsocial]

Remember That Show? TV Treat, Ep. 24: Punky Brewster (1984-2021)

We introduce our new “Channel Surfing” format where we travel through the entire history of a television franchise. For our maiden voyage we’re exploring the legacy of Punky Brewster from the original 2 seasons on NBC starting in 1984, to the 2 years of syndication from 1987-1988 and capping off with the 2021 revival series on Peacock. Summon your “Punky Power” and get listening, TV Lovers!

[degrassians]

absurdnoise:

Ralphie gets what Ralphie wants.

[camillasgirl]

Queen Camilla hosts a reception to mark the relaunch of the Wash Bags project. The Wash Bags Project was initiated by The Queen as Duchess of Cornwall in 2013 after hearing the stories of rape and sexual abuse survivors during her visits to the Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs). The scheme provides a wash bag of toiletries, donated by Boots, to people who have been affected by rape and sexual abuse, Buckingham Palace London, 01.05.2024

[groupiegallagher]

amy winehouse deserved so much better

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

Annika Rose by Cheri Johnson

This is a book that has mixed reviews. Some are glowing and others much less so. The prose is well done and the dialogue easy to follow.  I began reading and two young women meet on a country road. One lives with her father and is out for a walk and the other has just moved into the cabin next door. They talk, tour the cabin, and Annika worries but admires Tina while thinking about drawings she has made. I was underwhelmed so read the end, as I sometimes do, to see if I wanted to continue reading based on the conclusion of the story. I wasn’t sure but still uncommitted so went to the middle and read a bit more here and there and found that there were characters that seemed charming in spots while also feeling rather dangerous. There was a dark vibe throughout and a feeling that left me thinking that this is probably a book for someone younger than I am who might be drawn in and be able to make more sense of it. So, did I read the entire book word for word? No Will I return to it? Probably not because I could not relate to the characters and their story did not draw me in. Would I read this author again? It would depend on the synopsis and if it was of interest.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Red Hen Press for the ARC – This is my honest review

2-3 Stars

BLURB

Ancient and contemporary myths—including both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby—overlay a coming-of-age story set in remote northern Minnesota. Seventeen-year-old Annika Rose and her father Wes have spent the years since the death of Annika’s mother in self-imposed social isolation on their farm on the edge of the woods. When a young woman named Tina moves into a house down the road, the result is a sudden explosion of feelings in both father and daughter and a fierce rivalry. At stake in the competition is not only their relationship, but the life of the vulnerable young woman at the center of it all. Advance Praise: “Part coming-of-age story, part ode to the landscape of northern Minnesota, this is also a horror story that reflects the larger horror of adolescence, of a girl’s fight for integrity in the face of demolished innocence. How could we forget Annika after we meet her? Her character is seared upon my brain. She is reminiscent of other stubborn, opinionated characters who struggle in the limbo between childhood and adulthood: Huckleberry Finn, Laura Ingalls, and Scout Finch.”—Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist “Cheri Johnson’s novel Annika Rose is a marvel of invention whose always knowing prose, alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, simultaneously glimmers and cuts. A magician with character, Johnson’s most artful alchemy comes in her protagonist Annika, who, if there is a meritocracy, will become as memorable a first name in literature as Holden or Huckleberry as teenagers choked and befuddled by angst, adventure, and an ever-encroaching and frightening very real world. Annika—an eighteen-year-old post-modern Laura Ingalls inhabiting a little trailer on the prairie—is a breathing contradiction, both an old soul and a doe-innocent naif. Yet her battle—to speak when uncomfortable truths finally outweigh convenient myths—is as ageless as both life and death.”—Neal Karlen, author of This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On + Off the Record "Annika Rose is a coming-of-age story unlike any you’ve ever read. This novel peels back the skin of the genre’s tropes to reveal all of the sticky weirdness that exists beneath. Annika Rose’s narrative is a journey into deep psychic wildness where love, desire, envy, power, and violence collapse into one another. We open with what presents initially as a love triangle, but quickly reveals itself to be the face of a much more complex and multidimensional geometry of desire. The setting, at the edge of farm country in the age of supermarkets, is more than a backdrop. The creatures and hazards of the deep woods the characters still roam serve as an insistent reminder of the feral impulses powering our rational minds. Annika Rose is also a page-turner and compulsively readable, its sentences at turns as restrained and untamed as the country it describes." —Melanie Conroy-Goldman, author of The Likely World

[cyarskaren1999-blog]

sharonhawkins 

poeticblkgiirl 

Jul 23, 2021

poeticblkgiirl

Jul 22, 2021

Cherie Johnson on Family Matters, 1994

S5E12 Stefan Returns

[inkcurlsandknives]

My guest blog with Bookish Brews has gone live! Head over there to read more on my SFF Anti-colonial reading recs! I included some of my favorite reads and some of the ones I'm most looking forward to this year!

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[Anti-colonial SFF Reccs by Gabriella Buba

EMPIRE OF SAND by Tasha Suri

Babel by RF Kuang

Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

Wicked as you wish by Rin Chupeco

Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline]

[donnahinkleystaceytroy]

Fred Armisen, cast (2002–13)

Alec Baldwin, 17-time host (1990–2017)

Vanessa Bayer, cast (2010–17)

Candice Bergen, five-time host (1975–90)

Aidy Bryant, cast (2012–22)

Dana Carvey, cast (1986–93)

Chevy Chase, cast and writer (1975–76)

Michael Che, writer (2013–present), cast (2014–present)

Ellen Cleghorne, cast (1991–95)

Billy Crystal, cast (1984–85)

Jane Curtin, cast (1975–80)

Pete Davidson, cast (2014–22)

Rachel Dratch, cast (1999–2006)

Nora Dunn, cast (1985–90)

Jimmy Fallon, cast (1998–2004)

Tina Fey, writer (1997–2006), cast (2000–6)

Will Forte, cast (2002–10)

Janeane Garofalo, cast (1994–95)

Ana Gasteyer, cast (1996–2002)

Bill Hader, cast (2005–13)

Darrell Hammond, cast (1995–2009), announcer (2014–present)

Marcello Hernández, cast (2022–present)

James Austin Johnson, cast (2021–present)

Leslie Jones, cast and, writer (2014–19)

Colin Jost, writer (2005–present), cast (2014–present)

Chris Kattan, cast (1996–2003)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cast (1982–85)

Steve Martin, 16-time host (1976–2022)

Kate McKinnon, cast (2012–22)

Tim Meadows, cast (1991–2000)

Seth Meyers, cast (2001–14), writer (2003–14)

Tracy Morgan, cast (1996–2003)

Garrett Morris, cast (1975–80)

John Mulaney, writer (2008–13), six-time host (2018–24)

Mike Myers, cast (1989–95)

Laraine Newman, cast (1975–80)

Don Novello, writer (1978–80 1985–86), cast (1979–80, 1985–86)

Cheri Oteri, cast (1995–2000)

Chris Parnell, cast (1998–2006)

Nasim Pedrad, cast (2009–14)

Jay Pharoah, cast (2010–16)

Joe Piscopo, cast (1980–84)

Amy Poehler, cast (2001–8)

Maya Rudolph, cast (2000–7)

Andy Samberg, cast (2005–12)

Molly Shannon, cast (1995–2001)

Sarah Sherman, cast (2021–present)

Martin Short, cast (1984–85)

Sarah Silverman, cast and, writer (1993–94)

David Spade, writer (1990–91), cast (1990–96)

Cecily Strong, cast (2012–22)

Jason Sudeikis, writer (2003–5), cast (2005–13)

Julia Sweeney, cast (1990–94)

Terry Sweeney, writer (1980–81 1985–86), cast (1985–86)

Kenan Thompson, cast (2003–present)

Christopher Walken, seven-time host (1990–2008)

Kristen Wiig, cast (2005–12), five-time host (2013–24)

Casey Wilson, cast (2008–9)

Bowen Yang, writer (2018–19), cast (2019–present)

Sasheer Zamata, cast (2014–17)

[wannabecatwriter]

A-Z Challenge: List your sims in order, trying to complete the alphabet.

Thanks for the tag, @treason-and-plot and @pink-chevalier

For this, I'm only picking Chronicles of a Pessimist, because the list is big enough as is...I've taken this a step further and tried to list out every sim who appeared in the story so far.

Also, for anyone curious, here's a useful site for listing things in alphabetical order. X

Tagging @dandylion240 @holocene-sims @nocturnalazure and @citylighten for this, but only if you're up to it.

List under read more.

A:

Aaron Covington

Adolfo Dias

Alayna Price (sim made by @amuhav)

Alberto Garcia

Amanda Varner

Anette Dyer

Angela Langford

Anna Luis

Antoine Varner

Ariana Dyer

Ashton Byrd

Autumn Dyer

B:

Bernadette Byrd

C:

Calvin Linton

Candace Byrd (sim made by @amuhav)

Caroline Adams

Carson Wong

Chandra Smith

Cherie Pie

Consuelo Byers

D:

Demarcus Wells

Dinah Zeeman

Donna Morelli

Donovan Adams

Douglas Byrd

E:

Eddie Gritton

Edith Vane

F:

Fred Carlson

G:

Gracie Loveland (Appaloosa premade)

H:

Harvey Gritton

Hubert Dyer

Humberto Costa

Hunter Bayer

I:

Isobel Devane (sim made by @amuhav)

J:

Jasper Dyer

Jerome Terry

Jerrica Lancer (Delia Bates)

Johnny Johnson (AP premade)

Josie Henning

K:

Kade Myers

Kareem Pace

Kelly Lockett

Kevin Luis

Kimberly Price

L:

Luis Dupre

M:

Maria Villegas

Marissa Gold

Marty Henning

Mike Driver

Michael Ross

Mitchell Valentine

N:

Noelle Dyer

O:

P:

Peijing On

Q:

R:

Rachel Everett

Regan Zeeman

Rodrigo Salazar

S:

Samir Zeeman

Shanna Das

T:

Tammie Morelli

Tony Wells

Toya Bayer

U:

V:

Wendy Wong

William Dodd

Wyatt Parker

X:

Y:

Z:

[blue-aconite]

There Will Be Blood - A Top Gun Maverick Mafia!AU

Pairing: Bradley Bradshaw x OC, Jake Seresin x OC

Summary: Ava Castello always knew she was going to end up marrying Bradley Bradshaw. She knew it from the moment she overheard her parents fighting in the kitchen at 3am when she was 10 years old. After that it had been set in stone and honestly, it wasn’t that bad. 

Bradley was easy on the eyes and despite the ruthless name he’d made from himself as Nick’s heir, he was always kind and polite whenever he and Ava were in the same shared space. She could think of cruller men to be betrothed to. 

She knew that their marriage would be a way for her family to get out of the debt the owed the Bradshaw family and she was fine with paying the price. She’d be safe and looked after as Bradley’s wife.

But after a whirlwind of a night, Ava ends up at the Seresin estate, the last place she should be at. The shared hatred between the Bradshaw’s and Serein’s is no secret and their constant fight for control over the city has taken many lives and years. 

After Jake saves her life that night, Ava knows she owes him a debt. And that debt might come with too high a price.

The Girl in the Creek - A Top Gun Maverick AU

Pairing: Jake Seresin x ?

Summary: Sheriff Manfred Johnson gets the call at 7am on a Sunday morning. A jogger has found a body in the woods, out by the creek. So much for his quiet morning.

It's no secret that the creek is a popular hangout for the town's teenagers. After interviewing several witnesses, who aren't much help, the sheriff department rules the incident as accidental drowning. To placate the distraught family, the creek is closed to the public to avoid further accidents.

The newspapers name the case "The Girl in the Creek" and it sticks.

Everyone says that his sister drowned, that she was drunk and fell into the creek and the people around her were too drunk to help. Everyone says it was an accident.

But Jake knows something else happened that night. He just knows it.

25 years after his sister's death, Jake decides to find out what really happened that night. He's a detective now, he's got more solved cases on the force than anyone else.

With the help of friends and family, Jake is determined to find out the truth. There's so many unanswered questions.  And the most intriguing one of all, what really happened to the girl in the creek?

In The Deep - A Top Gun Maverick Mermaid!AU

Pairing: Jake Seresin x reader

Summary: Everyone knew the stories. During the summers, it was all your town thrived on. The local legends brought a swarm of tourists each season, all of them searching for what you believed to be absolute bullshit. 

Vessels overturned in the middle of a calm day, sailors abandoning post and jumping into the water for unexplainable reasons. A faint song in the evening breeze, heard by only those meant to. Beautiful yet terrifying creatures roaming the deepest parts of the ocean. Sharp fangs and enchanting eyes, shimmering tails and a deadly song. 

Those were the stories your grandfather and father had fed you your entire life. But growing up in a coastal town with parents who all but worked on a boat all day long, you know better. You’ve never even seen anything remotely close to a resemblance of the creature, so you don’t understand how the legends fascinate anyone.

“Don’t stare at your reflection for too long, ma cherie. Or the creatures might lure you into the water, never to be seen again.” That was your grandfather’s warning each time you went out on the ocean. You’ve always scoffed and ignored it but this time it feels different. This time, his warning stays with you as you watch the clouds roll in and the waves grow bolder. What if there’s really something down there? And if there is, what is it?

Sharpest Blade - A Top Gun Maverick Hunger Games!AU

Pairing: Jake Seresin x reader

Summary: After winning the 79th Hunger Games, your life changed completely. The Capitol loved you, the people loved you. You’re the first tribute in decades from District 1 that didn’t volunteer to enter the games. 

With the 80th Games looming on the horizon, President Cain annonce that the tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors from each district. 

Thrown into a conflict with deadly consequences, you’re not sure who to trust. You’re paired with former victors deemed as the best of the best, forming an unlikely alliance. 

While on the outside of the arena, an uprising is brewing and your mentor is doing whatever he can to make sure you make it out alive.

Swords and Smoke - A Top Gun Maverick Royal AU

Pairing: Jake Seresin x OC

King Nicholas II and his wife Queen Carol were blessed with not one but two strong and healthy boys born within the year from each other. 

Bradley came first, a true winter child, born to follow in his father's footsteps and ascend the throne when the time was right. A true heir to his father's kingdom.

Then there was Jacob, who was happy to be second in line. None of the heavy responsibilities on his shoulder, happy to be an advisor to his older brother. He knew he one day would have to shoulder being the right hand man during his brother's rule but it never bothered him.

When their parents arrange for Bradley to wed the Princess of one of their allied kingdoms, Bradley is devastated. While he knows his duty, he's deeply in love with one of his mother's handmaidens, Natasha. 

Jacob decides to help his brother out, and offers himself to take Bradley's place. He's not the heir, but being the second born of the most powerful king in the South is quite the feat.

Jake soon realises he’s thrown into more than just an arranged marriage, suddenly caught in a deadly spiral with an outcome no one is ready for.

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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Season 2 here, Season 3 here

Works Directly Referenced:

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences:

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

As seen in Daniel’s apartment & quoted on his LinkedIn account:

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills credit to @speckled-jim

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff credit to @spreckled-jim

America and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan S. Blinder credit to @speckled-jim

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman credit to @speckled-jim

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown credit to @speckled-jim

Attila: the Judgement by William Napier credit to @speckled-jim

In A Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan credit to @spreckled-jim

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal credit to @speckled-jim

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism" by Jacques Dupuis credit to @speckled-jim

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi credit to @speckled-jim

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Strange Creatures by Jamie Chiarello (2016) credit to @maharetscompound

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

Trying to Focus by Jamie Chiarello credit to @maharetscompound

Nature Mutherfucker by Jamie Chiarello credit to @maharetscompound

Small and perpetual changes by Jamie Chiarello (2021) credit to @maharetscompound

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

[ministerforpeas]

Night 1

Michael Heseltine stays hidden in the jungle.

Despite having tried to exorcise him earlier, Nick Clegg decides to rest with the Tory John Redwood, along with John Smith.

David Owen refuses to ever kill his ex-boyfriend former colleague who helped form the alliance.

Theresa May tells Alastair Campbell about the naughtiest thing she's ever done, while Campbell talks about the struggle of choosing Tony Blair's tie.

Nigel Farage puts his differences aside with the woke lefties James Callaghan and Ed Miliband to sing their anthems.

A whole lot of unexpected cooperation here it seems.

Boris Johnson and his mate Moggy discuss the games with Dennis Skinner of all people.

John Prescott relaxes with his pint.

Mandy gloats about his "soon-to-be-successful" plans.

Tony Blair finally finds water in the form of a sponsor (probably Cherie).

Edwina Currie got an STD from sucking a traffic cone.

Using his stolen mace, Edward Heath mercilessly kills Ed Balls.

Norman Lamont deals with Labourites as well as the very person who booted him out in the first place. He will have his revenge soon...

[bookclub4m]

30 Fantasy fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai 

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Björkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter