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I’m reading my way through all the speculative fiction I can find featuring significant explorations of trauma, healing, and recovery. Here are my thoughts about everything I’ve read so far!
Table of Contents
A
A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (The Tithenai Chronicles #1)
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Aching God by Mike Shel (Iconoclasts #1)
Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
The Armless Maiden & Other Stories for Childhood’s Survivors edited by Terri Winding
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Archivist Wasp Sage #1)
B
Bitterblue by Kristen Cashore (Graceling Realm #3)
Black Spring by Alison Croggon
Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
The Broken Crown by Michelle Sagara (The Sun Sword #1)
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow #2)
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells (Books of the Raksura#1)
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (The World of the Five Gods #1)
D
Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers (His Fair Assassin #2)
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (Sevenwaters #1)
The Deep End of the Sea by Heather Lyons
Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau (The Twelfth World #1)
E
The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee (Feverwake #2)
F
The Fever King by Victoria Lee (Feverwake #1)
Fire Logic by Laurie J Marks (Elemental Logic #1)
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette De Bodard
Fitcher’s Brides by Gregory Frost
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
For Girls Who Walk Through Fire by Kim Derose
Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters #1)
G
Gild by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner #1)
Gleam by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner #3)
Glint by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner #2)
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (Girls of Paper and Fire #1)
Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan (Girls of Paper and Fire #2)
Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan (Girls of Paper and Fire #3)
Giving the Devil His Due by the Pixel Project
Glow by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner #4)
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor #1)
God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell (Kencryath #1)
Gold by Raven Kennedy (The Plated Prisoner #5)
H
The Hanged Man by KD Edwards (The Tarot Sequence #2)
The Hanging City by Charlie Holmberg
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan
The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards (The Tarot Sequence #3)
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
I
Idols Fall by Mike Shel (Iconoclasts #3)
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
In the Serpent’s Wake by Rachel Hartman (Tess of the Road #2)
Inda by Sherwood Smith (Inda #1)
J
K
King’s Dragon by Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars #1)
L
The Last Sun by KD Edwards (The Tarot Sequence #1)
Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace (Archivist Wasp #2)
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Legendborn Cycle #1)
The Light Between Worlds by Laura E Weymouth
Little Thieves by Margaret Own (Little Thieves #1)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Los Nefilim by T. Frohock (Los Nefilim #0.1-0.3)
M
Magical Women edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan
Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (The Last Herald Mage #1)
Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff (The Red Abbey Chronicles #1)
Maresi Red Mantle by Maria Turtschaninoff (The Red Abbey Chronicles #3)
Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear
Melusine by Sarah Monette (The Doctrine of Labyrinths #1)
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due (African Immortals #1)
N
Naondel by Maria Turtschaninoff (The Red Abbey Chronicles #2)
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
O
The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
The Onion Girl by Charles De Lint (Newford #8)
Our Gifted Hears by Jennifer Kennedy
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
P
Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel #1)
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (World of the Five Gods #2)
The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (Poison Study #1)
R
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #1)
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Raybearer #1)
The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne Valente
Rose in Chains by Julie Soto (The Evermore Trilogy #1)
S
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reed
Saint Death’s Daughter by CSE Cooney
Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce (Circle of Magic #1)
The Scar by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Seven Summer Nights by Harper Fox
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #1)
Sin Eater by Mike Shel (Iconoclasts #2)
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier (Sevenwaters #2)
Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow #1)
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Stars are Dying by Chloe Peñaranda (Nytefall #1)
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Strands of Starlight by Gael Baudino (Strands #1)
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer #1)
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill
Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh
T
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman (Tess of the Road #1)
Thorn by Intisar Khanani (The Dauntless Path #1)
V
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
W
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archives #1)
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (Patternist #1)
Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier (Children of the Black Sun #1)
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
Witchmark by C.L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle #1)
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Y
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