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since the middle of 2022, I’ve borrowed the mood tags from The Storygraph to use in my reviews (adventurous, challenging, dark, emotional, funny, hopeful, informative, inspiring, lighthearted, mysterious, reflective, relaxing, sad, and tense), along with four additional tags of my own: grimy (to be clear: this is a good thing), horny, polemic, and wacky.

reviews by author

• anonymous (tr. Elizabeth Gray): Cath Maige Tuired (Old Gaelic, Ireland, medieval, fantasy)
• anonymous (tr. Jeffrey Gantz): Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Old Gaelic, Ireland, medieval, fantasy)
• anonymous (tr. Sioned Davies): Mabinogion (Middle Welsh, Wales, medieval, fantasy)
• anonymous (tr. Vincent van Gerven Oei): The Miracle of Saint Mina (Old Nubian, Nubia, medieval, hagiography)
• anonymous (tr. Joseph J. O’Meara): The Voyage of Saint Brendan (Latin, Ireland, medieval, speculative/hagiography)
• Abbas, Ibraheem and Yasser Bahjatt (tr. Yasser Bahjatt): HWJN (Arabic, Saudi Arabia, 2013, fantasy)
• Abdel Aziz, Basma (tr. Elisabeth Jaquette): The Queue (Arabic, Egypt, 2013, sci-fi)
• Adler, Nathan Niigan Noodin: Wrist (English, Canada, 2016, fantasy/horror)
• Aitmatov, Chingiz (tr. John French): The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian, Kyrgyzstan, 1980, sci-fi)
• Aleko Konstantinov (tr. various): Bai Ganyo (Bulgarian, Bulgaria, 1895, literary, short fiction)
• Alguire, Judith: Zeta Base (English, Canada, 1991, sci-fi)
• Amory, Richard: Song of the Loon (English, USA, 1966, erotica/speculative)
• Anderson, Poul: Fire Time (English, USA, 1974, sci-fi)
• Applegate, K.A., Michael Grant, and Chris Grine: Animorphs graphic novels (English, USA, 2020—, sci-fi)
  • The Encounter (#3, 2022)
  • The Message (#4, 2023)
• Araña: Ocotillo (English, USA, 2020, literary/YA)
• Arias de Reyna, Inés: Deja que el viento se lleve mis cenizas (Spanish, Spain, 2021, short fiction, fantasy/sci-fi)
• Arnason, Eleanor: Ring of Swords (English, USA, 1993, sci-fi)
• Barrett, Bendi: Empire of the feast (English, USA, 2022, sci-fi/fantasy)
• Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (English, USA, 1900, fantasy)
• Bechdel, Alison: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (English, USA, 1983-2008, comic)
• Belcourt, Billy-Ray: A Minor Chorus (English, Canada, 2022, literary)
• Belcourt, Billy-Ray: NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field (English, Canada, 2019, poetry)
• Beydoun, Zaki (tr. Nathalie Bontemps): Organes invisibles (Arabic, Lebanon, 2007-2016, short fiction, speculative/mundane)
• Biggers, Earl Derr: The House Without a Key (English, USA, 1925, mystery)
• Brackett, Leigh: The Coming of the Terrans (English, USA, 1967, sci-fi, short fiction)
• Brennan, Marie: The Game of 100 Candles (English, USA, 2023, fantasy)
• Buckell, Tobias S.: Crystal Rain (English, Grenada, 2006, sci-fi)
• Buckell, Tobias S.: The Executioness (English, Grenada, 2011, fantasy)
• Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks (English, USA, 1987, fantasy)
• Burgos, Carmen de: Puñal de claveles (Spanish, Spain, 1931, literary)
• Butler, Octavia E.: Kindred (English, USA, 1979, fantasy)
• Butler, Octavia E.: Patternist (English, USA, 1976-1984, sci-fi)
  • Survivor (#3, 1978)
  • Wild Seed (#4, 1980)
  • Clay’s Ark (#5, 1984)
• Butler, Octavia E.: Xenogenesis (English, USA, 1987-1989, sci-fi)
  • Dawn (#1, 1987)
  • Adulthood Rites (#2, 1988)
  • Imago (#3, 1989)
• Calvo, Sabrina: Toxoplasma (French, France, 2017, sci-fi)
• Cartledge, S.T.: Hollow Coin (English, Australia, 2021, sci-fi)
• Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep (English, USA, 1939, mystery)
• Cherryh, C.J.: the Chanur novels (English, USA, 1981-1992, sci-fi)
  • The Pride of Chanur (#1, 1981)
• Clark, P. Djèlí: The Black God’s Drums (English, USA, 2018, sci-fi/fantasy)
• Constantine, Murray: Swastika Night (English, UK, 1937, sci-fi)
• Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising Sequence (English, UK, 1965-1977, fantasy, children’s)
  • The Grey King (#4, 1975)
• Crowley, John: The Deep (English, USA, 1975, sci-fi)
• Dafydd, Catrin: Gwales (Welsh, UK, 2017, sci-fi)
• De Maria, Giorgio: I Trasgressionisti (Italian, Italy, 1968, literary/speculative)
• Deane, Maya: Wrath Goddess Sing (English, USA, 2022, fantasy)
• Delany, Samuel R.: Return to Nevèrÿon (English, USA, 1979-1987, fantasy)
  • Tales of Nevèrÿon (#1, 1979)
  • Neveryóna (#2, 1983)
  • Flight from Nevèrÿon (#3, 1985)
  • Return to Nevèrÿon (#4, 1987)
• Delany, Samuel R.: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (English, USA, 1984, sci-fi)
• Delany, Samuel R.: Trouble on Triton (English, USA, 1976, sci-fi)
• DeNiro, Anya Johanna: City of a Thousand Feelings (English, USA, 2020, fantasy)
• Derviş, Suat (tr. Maureen Freely): In the Shadow of the Yalı (Turkish, Turkey, 1945, literary)
• Dicken, Evan: To Chart the Clouds (English, USA, 2022, fantasy)
• Duane, Diane: Young Wizards (English, USA, 1983—, fantasy/sci-fi)
  • A Wizard Abroad (#4, 1993)
• Ece Ayhan (tr. Murat Nemet-Nejat): A Blind Cat Black (Turkish, Turkey, 1965, poetry)
• Ece Ayhan (tr. Murat Nemet-Nejet): Orthodoxies (Turkish, Turkey, 1968, poetry)
• Edidi, Dane Figueroa: Yemaya’s Daughters (English, USA, 2013, fantasy)
• Edwards, K.D.: The Tarot Sequence (English, USA, 2018—, fantasy)
  • The Hourglass Throne (#3, 2022)
• Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue (English, USA, 1984-1993, sci-fi)
  • Native Tongue (#1, 1984)
• Elis, Islwyn Ffowc: Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd (Welsh, UK, 1971, fantasy/horror)
• Elis, Islwyn Ffowc: Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (Welsh, UK, 1957, sci-fi)
• Ewing, Eve L.: 1919 (English, USA, 2019, poetry)
• Fennell, Jack (ed.): A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction (English/Irish, Ireland, 1837-1960/2018, sci-fi/fantasy, short fiction)
• Frankétienne (tr. Asselin Charles): Dézafi (Haitian Creole, Haiti, 1975, speculative)
• Freed, Alexander: Battlefront: Twilight Company (English, USA, 2015, sci-fi)
• Gaitano, Stella (tr. Sawad Hussain): Edo’s Souls (Arabic, South Sudan, 2018, literary)
• García Lorca, Federico: Bodas de sangre (Spanish, Spain, 1933, drama)
• Ghalayini, Basma (ed.): Palestine + 100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba (English/Arabic, Palestine, 2019, sci-fi, short fiction)
• Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm (English, UK, 1932, sci-fi)
• Giles, Harry Josephine: Deep Wheel Orcadia (Scots, UK, 2021, poetry, sci-fi)
• Gorodischer, Angélica: Trafalgar (Spanish, Argentina, 1979, sci-fi)
• Goyette, Sue: Ocean (English, Canada, 2013, poetry)
• Graves, Robert: Seven Days in New Crete (English, UK, 1949, sci-fi/fantasy)
• Griffith, Nicola: Spear (English, UK, 2022, fantasy)
• Haïlji (tr. Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton): The Republic of Užupis (Korean, South Korea, 2009, speculative)
• Haleʻole, S.N. (tr. Martha Warren Beckwith): The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai (Hawaiian, Hawai‘i, 1863, speculative)
• Hammett, Dashiell: The Dain Curse (English, USA, 1929, mystery)
• Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon (English, USA, 1930, mystery)
• Hammett, Dashiell: Red Harvest (English, USA, 1929, mystery)
• Hancock, Bob: Coppin’ the Jock (English, USA, 1978, erotica)
• Harris, Clare Winger: The Artificial Man and Other Stories (English, USA, 1926-1933, sci-fi, short fiction)
• Haywood, Eliza: Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (English, UK, 1736, fantasy)
• Házael G.: Quijote Z (Spanish, Spain, 2010, speculative)
• Hossain, Rokeya (tr. Barnita Bagchi): Padmarag (Bengali, Bangladesh/India, 1924, literary)
• Huchu, T.L.: Edinburgh Nights (English, Zimbabwe, 2021—, fantasy)
  • The Library of the Dead (#1, 2021)
  • Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (#2, 2022)
  • The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle (#3, 2023)
• Huff, Tanya: Valor’s Choice (English, Canada, 2000, sci-fi)
• Jacques, Brian: Redwall (English, UK, 1986, fantasy)
• Jimenez, Simon: The Spear Cuts Through Water (English, USA, 2022, fantasy)
• Jones, Ifan Morgan: Igam Ogam (Welsh, UK, 2008, fantasy)
• Jordan, Robert: The Wheel of Time (English, USA, 1990-2013, fantasy)
  • New Spring (prequel, 2004)
• Kay, Guy Gavriel: The Summer Tree (English, Canada, 1984, fantasy)
• Khaw, Cassandra: Nothing but Blackened Teeth (English, Malaysia, 2021, horror/fantasy)
• Kim Ae-ran (tr. Chi-Young Kim): My Brilliant Life (Korean, South Korea, 2011, literary)
• Korneliussen, Niviaq (tr. Inès Jorgensen and Jean-Michel Huctin): Homo sapienne (Greenlandic, Denmark, 2014, literary)
• Kulaghoe, Celo: Raindrops (English, Solomon Islands, 1998, poetry)
• Kurtz, Katherine: Deryni Rising (English, USA, 1970, fantasy)
• Laderoute, D.G.: Trail of Shadows (English, Canada, 2020, fantasy)
• Lai, Larissa: Salt Fish Girl (English, Canada, 2002, sci-fi/fantasy)
• Lamb, Harold: Durandal (English, USA, 1931, historical/fantasy)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Beginning Place (English, USA, 1980, fantasy)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: City of Illusions (English, USA, 1967, sci-fi)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.: Earthsea (English, USA, 1968-2001, fantasy)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea (#1, 1968)
  • The Tombs of Atuan (#2, 1971)
  • The Farthest Shore (#3, 1972)
  • Tehanu (#4, 1990)
  • The Other Wind (#5, 2001)
  • Tales from Earthsea (1998-2001, short fiction)
• Lem, Stanisław (tr. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox): Solaris (Polish, Poland, 1961, sci-fi)
• Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness (English, USA, 1931, sci-fi)
• Lubrin, Canisia: Code Noir (English, Saint Lucia, 2024, literary/speculative, short fiction)
• Lynge, Aqqaluk (tr. Ken Norris and Marianne Stenbaek): Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut / The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind (Greenlandic, Denmark, 2008, poetry)
• Lynge, Augo (tr. Inès Jorgensen and Jean-Michel Huctin): Trois cents ans après: Grønlandshavn en 2021 (Greenlandic, Denmark/Greenland, 1931, sci-fi)
• Lynn, Elizabeth A.: The Red Hawk (English, USA, 1983, fantasy)
• Mac an Aba, Iain: Calum is Banntrach Tharmaid (Gaelic, UK, 1922, drama)
• McCaffrey, Anne: Dragonriders of Pern (English, USA, 1967-2003, sci-fi)
  • Dragonflight (#1, 1968)
  • Dragonquest (#2, 1971)
  • Dragonsong (#3, 1976)
  • Dragonsinger (#4, 1977)
  • The White Dragon (#5, 1978)
  • Dragondrums (#6, 1979)
  • Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (#7, 1983)
  • Nerilka’s Story (#8, 1986)
  • Dragonsdawn (#9, 1988)
  • The Renegades of Pern (#10, 1989)
  • All the Weyrs of Pern (#11, 1991)
• MacCormaig, Iain: Am Fear a Chaill a Ghàidhlig (Gaelic, UK, 1911, drama)
• McGavin, Kirstin (ed.): World Beyond: An Anthology of Papua New Guinean Speculative Fiction (English, Papua New Guinea, 2022, sci-fi/fantasy, short fiction)
• Mac a’ Ghobhainn, Iain: Turas tro Shaoghal Falamh (Gaelic, UK, 1991, sci-fi)
• MacLean, Katherine: The Diploids (English, USA, 1962, sci-fi, short fiction)
• MacLeòid, Fionnlagh: Gormshuil an Rìgh (Gaelic, UK, 2010, fantasy)
• MacMhaoilein, Calum: Na Fìobhaich (Gaelic, UK, 1993, historical)
• Markoosie Patsauq (tr. Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mahieu): Hunter with Harpoon (Inuktitut, Canada, 1970, historical)
• Marks, Laurie J.: Children of the Triad (English, USA, 1989-1991, fantasy)
  • Delan the Mislaid (#1, 1989)
  • The Moonbane Mage (#2, 1990)
• Marks, Laurie J.: Elemental Logic (English, USA, 2002-2019, fantasy)
  • Fire Logic (#1, 2002)
  • Earth Logic (#2, 2004)
  • Water Logic (#3, 2007)
  • Air Logic (#4, 2019)
• Marsh, Richard: The Beetle (English, UK, 1897, horror/fantasy)
• Midhat, Ahmet (tr. Melih Levi and Monica M. Ringer): Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi (Ottoman Turkish, Ottoman Empire/Turkey, 1875, literary)
• Miéville, China: Perdido Street Station (English, UK, 2000, fantasy)
• Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (tr. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure and Peter Frost): Sanaaq (Inuktitut, Canada, 1984, literary)
• Molisa, Grace Mera: Black Stone (English, Vanuatu, 1983, poetry)
• Moore, C.L.: Jirel of Joiry (English, USA, 1934-1939, fantasy/sci-fi, short fiction)
• Morris, Jan: Last Letters from Hav (English, UK, 1985, speculative)
• Muir, Tamsyn: The Locked Tomb (English, Aotearoa, 2019—, sci-fi/fantasy)
  • Gideon the Ninth (#1, 2019)
  • Harrow the Ninth (#2, 2020)
  • Nona the Ninth (#3, 2022)
• Muir, Tamsyn: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (English, Aotearoa, 2020, fantasy)
• Mutonji, Téa: Shut Up You’re Pretty (English, Canada, 2019, literary, short fiction)
• Ndlovu, Gloria Siphiwe: The Theory of Flight (English, Zimbabwe, 2018, literary)
• Ní Chiaragáin, Saoirse: Wax and Wane (English, Ireland, 2022, horror/fantasy)
• Ní Ghráda, Máiréad: Manannán (Irish, Ireland, 1940, sci-fi)
• NicDhòmhnaill, Màiri Anna: Cleas Sgàthain (Gaelic, UK, 2008, literary)
• Norton, Andre: Yurth Burden (English, USA, 1978, sci-fi)
• Nuttall, Kōtuku Titihuia: Tauhou (English, Aotearoa, 2022, speculative, short fiction)
• O’Grady, Standish (James): The Coming of Cuculain (English, Ireland, 1894, fantasy)
• Ó Sándair, Cathal: Réics Carló (Irish, Ireland, 1943-1984, sci-fi/mystery/fantasy)
  • Na Mairbh a d’Fhill (#1, 1943)
• Ó Scolaí, Darach: Táin Bó Cuailnge (Irish, Ireland, 2017, fantasy)
• Odoul, Haggag Hassan (tr. Anthony Calderbank): Nights of Musk (Arabic, Egypt, 2005, literary, short fiction)
• Öhri, Armin (ed.): Oh, wie klein ist Liechtenstein (German, Liechtenstein, 2012, literary/speculative, short fiction)
• Okorafor, Nnedi: Remote Control (English, USA, 2021, sci-fi)
• Okorafor, Nnedi: The Shadow Speaker (English, USA, 2007, sci-fi/fantasy/YA)
• Okosun, Ehigbor: Forged by Blood (English, Nigeria, 2023, fantasy/YA)
• Paz Soldán, Edmundo: Las visiones (Spanish, Bolivia, 2016, sci-fi, short fiction)
• Pelot, Mayi (tr. Arrate Hidalgo): Memories of Tomorrow (Basque, France, 1985, sci-fi, short fiction)
• Pérez-Reverte, Arturo and Carla Pérez-Reverte: El capitán Alatriste (Spanish, Spain, 1996, historical)
• Polizzi, Nicole “Snooki” and Valerie Frankel: A Shore Thing (English, USA, 2011, romance)
• Prichard, Caradog: Un Nos Ola Leuad (Welsh, UK, 1961, literary/speculative)
• Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials (English, UK, 1995-2000, fantasy)
  • The Golden Compass (#1, 1995)
  • The Subtle Knife (#2, 1997)
  • The Amber Spyglass (#3, 2000)
• Quijano Vincenzi, Laura: Una sombra en el hielo (Spanish, Costa Rica, 1995, sci-fi)
• Radcliffe, Ann: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (English, UK, 1789, gothic/romance)
• Rashid, Ian Iqbal: Black Markets, White Boyfriends, and Other Acts of Elision (English, Canada, 1991, poetry)
• Reid, Ava: The Wolf and the Woodsman (English, USA, 2021, fantasy)
• Reynolds, Josh: Daidoji Shin Mysteries (English, USA, 2020—, fantasy/mystery)
  • The Flower Path (#3, 2022)
  • Three Oaths (#4, 2023)
• Roanhorse, Rebecca: Mirrored Heavens (English, USA, 2024, fantasy)
• Ros, Manon Steffan: Llyfr Glas Nebo (Welsh, UK, 2018, sci-fi)
• Ross, David: A Summer in Skye, Thirty Years Hence (English, UK, 1866, fantasy/sci-fi, short fiction)
• Russ, Joanna: We Who Are About To... (English, USA, 1977, sci-fi)
• Saadawi, Ahmed (tr. Jonathan Wright): Frankenstein in Baghdad (Arabic, Iraq, 2013, speculative)
• Samatar, Sofia: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (English, USA, 2024, sci-fi)
• Samatar, Sofia: The Winged Histories (English, USA, 2016, fantasy)
• Sanchez, Alex: So Hard to Say (English, USA, 2004, literary/YA)
• Seferis, George (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard): Mythistorema (Greek, Greece, 1935, poetry)
• Singh, Nikhil: Club Ded (English, South Africa, 2020, sci-fi)
• Spillane, Mickey: I, the Jury (English, USA, 1947, mystery)
• Stevens, Francis: The Citadel of Fear (English, USA, 1918, fantasy/horror)
• Stronach, Sascha: The Dawnhounds (English, Aotearoa, 2019, fantasy/sci-fi)
• Strouse, A.W. (ill. Patty Barth): Transfer Queen (English, USA, 2018, poetry)
• Sturgeon, Theodore: The Dreaming Jewels (English, USA, 1950, sci-fi)
• Tanaka Yoshiki (tr. various): Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Japanese, Japan, 1982-1987, sci-fi)
  • Ambition (#2, 1983, tr. Daniel Huddleston)
  • Endurance (#3, 1984, tr. Daniel Huddleston)
  • Stratagem (#4, 1984, tr. Tyran Grillo)
  • Mobilization (#5, 1985, tr. Tyran Grillo)
  • Flight (#6, 1985, tr. Tyran Grillo)
• Teaiwa, Teresia: Searching for Nei Nimʻanoa (English, Kiribati, 1995, poetry)
• Thaman, Konai Helu: Langakali (English, Tonga, 1981, poetry)
• Towsey, David: Equinox (English, UK, 2022, fantasy/horror)
• Tsiolkas, Christos: Loaded (English, Australia, 1995, literary)
• Tynes, Maxine: Woman Talking Woman (English, Canada, 1990, poetry)
• Utomi, Moses Ose: The Lies of the Ajungo (English, USA, 2023)
• Van Guardia, Lola (aka Isabel Franc): Con Pedigree (Spanish, Spain, 1997, literary/romance)
• Verne, Jules: Paris au XX^e siècle (French, France, 1863/1994, sci-fi)
• Vo, Nghi: The Singing Hills Cycle (English, USA, 2020—, fantasy)
  • The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)
• Vowel, Chelsea: Buffalo Is the New Buffalo (English, Canada, 2022, fantasy/sci-fi, short fiction)
• Walton, Evangeline: The Song of Rhiannon (English, USA, 1972, fantasy)
• Wells, Martha: All Systems Red (English, USA, 2018, sci-fi)
• White, T.H.: The Once and Future King (English, UK, 1938-1958, fantasy)
  • The Sword in the Stone (#1, 1938)
• Wildrath, Max: Der Möbelpacker (German, Germany, 2020, erotica)
• Wojnarowicz, David: Memories That Smell Like Gasoline (English, USA, 1992, literary/erotica, short fiction)
• Yakubu, Balaraba Ramat (tr. Aliyu Kamal): Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home (Hausa, Nigeria, 1990, literary/romance)
• Yoon, Prabda (tr. Mui Poopoksakul): The Sad Part Was (Thai, Thailand, 2000, literary/speculative/archrealism, short fiction)
• Yoss: Zhen-Galac (23 teselas cuadradas) (Spanish, Cuba, 2018, sci-fi, short fiction)

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