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30(+) Pubs I Am Excited For In 2026
It’s this time of the year. The year is still fresh (though in this world of hundreds of ongoing horrors it feels already like ten months have passed), and all the lists of most anticipated books are getting published. So here is mine. Or at least a version of it. My personal overview…
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Guide: Queer African Reads
Let’s start with the obvious: Neither “African literature” nor “queer literature” are stable, precise, unproblematic categories. Here I collect books by African and African‑diasporic authors. The books are either written by openly queer writers and/or and feature queerness in some prominent way. As of now, there is a regional bias in this list…
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30 New Publications in 2025 I Am Excited For
Over the past years my preview lists have become more and more extensive and putting together these kind of posts incredibly time consuming (so I never even did my list for the second half of 2024). So this year I decided to rein it in a little. There will be only one list…
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Best 2024 Albums and EPs
2024 wasn’t a great year on many metrics, but it did bring a lot of fantastic music. Of course, I did not solely listen to music released this year (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess was still on heavy rotation). I found a lot of joy though not just jumping from…
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50 (+ more) Books 2024 (January – June)
This is my incredibly extensive list of books I am excited about or highly interested in which will be published in the first half of 2024. As always, the publications date might be a bit all over the place because I use dates from all places where I can access the books from.…
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Guide: Books on Disability/ Chronic Illnesses/ Neurodiversity/ etc.
This is a living list with works which deal with disability and/ or chronical illness and/or Deafness and/or neurodiversity and/or mental illness and more. It’s about disability rights and movements, about ableism, about survival and solidarity, about pain and grief, and about joy and care. A lot of the descriptions here are taken…
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50+ Books 2023 (July-Dec)
The first half of 2023 is already over and while there are many unvertainities always, there is one thing we can be sure about: There will be incredible books published between July and December 2023. And below you find some of the books which are on my radar. Fiction J. Vanessa Lyon: Lush…
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50 (+ more) Books 2023 (January – June)
One week into the new year and I am happy to know that despite everything there is one thing we can be sure about in 2023: Some fantastic books will be published. Like every year I have my little calender in which I write down whenever I come across a title a find…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (July-December)
We are already deep into the second half of 2022. So it’s time for another fifty books I am excited for this year. The book descriptions are mostly taken directly from the respecitive publishers’ websites. For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (January-June)
No matter what 2022 will bring, there will be art, there will be books. And these are fifty of the books I am seeing forward to in the first half of the year! For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save…
