Reading List 2023, so far

I put together this little collage of the covers of the books that I’ve read so far in 2023, some of which I re-read this year.

The Catwings series by Ursula K. Le Guin is a must for anyone who loves our little fur friends.

Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago) will blow your mind. If you like the idea of people living inside a (flying) living organism whose walls, tables, and other platforms you change change and move around with a chemical reaction from the touch of your hand, that is just one little aspect of a whole new world, as well as people, she imagines. 

N.K. Jemisin’s series is very Butleresque, you can easily see the afrofuturistic influence that Butler had on her while she was writing this series, where people with special abilities are tasked with quelling the forces of nature in a hostile world.

The Once and Future Witches was recommended a few years ago by a friend who is also a subscriber to my Patreon (THANK YOU). If you like spells, historical fiction, and an interpretive glimpse into the workers’ uprisings of the late 1800’s, read this book, or listen to it like I did. 

Nick and I listened to README.txt over the course of a few months on our various car rides. I wasn’t that impressed, mainly because of the essentialized neoliberal undertones, but, regardless of her (overly patriotic) reasons for leaking the logs, her insight into the military industrial complex is an ethnographic case study in itself.

Genderqueer is a must-read comic for anyone who has friends or any loved one who is non-binary or gender nonconforming (moi, for example). This memoir will also introduce the reader to the Spivak pronouns that I use for some characters in  my first book of the Journey Across Genes saga. 

Ba’goa de Lu’a is the first book of the Chronicles of Landereina written by a friend of mine, Sabela Gonza’lez. It’s written in standardized Galician-Portuguese which isn’t my favorite orthographic variety. Unfortunately, this book hasn’t been localized into any other linguistic varieties that I’m aware of. Women are the warriors in this series and the Kingdom of Landereina depends on their bravery.