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"I don't wear headphones, I don't wear sunglasses, I make sure my jacket is tight so there's nothing to snag, and then I say goodbye to my plant, take a deep breath, step out of my apartment, and face a world that wants me dead." -The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

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Top 10 Books Read In 2022

Alright, first post on this blog, absolutely terrifying I guess to start out I'll just do some favorite’s from this year. Top 10 books of 2022 so far:

Babel: An Arcane History by RF Kuang: a fantastic treatise on anticolonialism interwoven with fantastic elements. When linguistics have magic that can be harvested, the British Empire collects foreign students to fuel their war machine. What happens when enough is enough? (cw: racism, child abuse, gun violence)

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix: After a disastrous acid trip, a teen notices strange changes in her friend. What or WHO has gotten into Gretchen? (cw: exorcism, gore, body horror, eating disorder, animal death)

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum: When Chernobyl melts down, Soviet physicist Anna Berkov, unlocks the ability to time travel. Will she be able to save her family and stop that calamity? (cw substance abuse, nazis, torture, brief police brutality)

The City We Became by NK Jemison: New York City is alive and selected a human avatar who is attacked by a being of cosmic annihilation. Will NYC’s five boroughs be able to protect its champion? (cw xenophobia, homophobia, attempted sexual assault)

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimoore: No one has seen Sasha’s sister in 10 years. When famous magician Violet Volk vanishes mid disappearing act a decade ago, she hasn’t been found. The whole world is clamoring to know what happened to her but Sasha is just looking for peace.

My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones: Jade Daniels has spent rhe last 7 years watching every slasher under the sun. When people start dropping like flies in her sleepy Idaho town, she trains the new girl to become the final girl. (cw gore, self-harm/suicide, child sexual abuse)

The Wolf And The Woodsman by Ava Reid: Evike, the only girl in her pagan village without magic is chosen as a blood sacrifice to a despotic king. When the monster hunters escorting her to the capital are attacked on the road, she forms a tentative truce with the captain to prevent an authoritarian coup. (cw gore, self-harm, antisemitism)

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole: Sydney Greene's neighborhood is changing so quickly. Someone is gone, everytime she blinks. It's just normal gentrification, right? Right? (cw racism, forced hospitalization, police brutality, attempted abduction)

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev: An update of Jane Austen's Persuasion. In a bid to save her late father's restaurant Ashna enters a reality cooking show to gain exposure.But what will she do when the soccer star celebrity she's partnered with is also the one who got away. (cw marital rape, substance abuse, suicide)

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschotts: When she is left seriously injured by a superhero, a hench woman uses her powers of data analysis to make his life a living hell. (cw violence, abduction, nonconsensual surgery, body horror)