Nix’s Sabriel is a classic Young Adult Fantasy with a unique magic system and fascinating world building. The first book in the Old Kingdom series, it has had a huge impact on YA Fantasy while still remaining unique and refreshing nearly thirty years after it was first published. - Traci
If We Were Villains is an excellent Dark Academia thriller with a Shakespearean twist. It is a story of murder, love, friendship, and jealousy; through it all is the words of Shakespeare. If you are looking for a thrilling murder mystery with messy people, this one's a great time. - Traci
An excellent work of Civil War memory scholarship, Domby's The False Cause is a deconstruction of the lies and fabrications regarding the legacy of the Civil War and the Confederate monuments erected since. Using UNC's Silent Sam statue as a case study, Domby presents a compelling argument for white supremacy being the motivating factor for the installment of many Confederate monuments in the United States, making this work of scholarship a deeply necessary and relevant title in current national conversations around white supremacy and African American history.
The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a book for book lovers; written as a Slice of Life novel, it follows the efforts of Genbu Publishing’s Kouhei Araki and later Mitsuya Majime - a socially awkward and professionally flagging man with a love of antiquarian books and a linguistics background - to create The Great Passage, the newest dictionary of the Japanese language. Written with a love of how words are created, used, and their myriad meanings, The Great Passage is as much about the development of a dictionary as it is about the people who come together in the process out of a love for words.