Casey Stepaniuk Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Casey Stepaniuk

This loose retelling of the Atlantis legend is intimate and authentic... The book’s lyrical prose, complex characterization, compelling action, and emotional resonance come together to create a flawless fantasy story.

Casey Stepaniuk

Marked as to-read: Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue https://t.co/lLyXQ5EFBy

Casey Stepaniuk

…it’s a sexy love story set in NYC’s high stakes elite worlds of art and auctioning… As… two women work together on the house, not only do they fall in love, but they discover a rare manuscript hidden in the old Brownstone that reveals secrets about the past.

Casey Stepaniuk

Carmen Maria Machado calls this memoir “a fucking gorgeous book.” That’s probably all you need to know, but here’s more: Belcher tells the story of her journey from life as a queer teen in small town Appalachia to becoming LA’s “renowned lesbian dominatrix.”

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Marked as to-read: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb https://t.co/pvSLWXDgua

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I read Season of Love by Helena Greer https://t.co/gC9VcRP5bj

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Marked as to-read: The Severed Thread by Leslie Vedder https://t.co/50ftACAtiT

Casey Stepaniuk

Rejoice, 2022 has another foodie queer romance for us! This one features a type-A, fiery restaurant owner with a failing business she’ll do anything to save and her new (former celebrity) head chef, described lovingly as “grump in the kitchen / sunshine in the streets.”

Casey Stepaniuk

These speculative, surreal short stories center the experiences of Asian American women: their bodies, relationships, identities, myths, and memories. Chang’s trademark feminist fabulist style blends themes of queerness, ghosts, migration, the body, and more.

Casey Stepaniuk

It succeeds on many levels: as a character study, as a swoony romance, as a gripping sports story, as a feminist inditement of sexism and misogyny, as a novel deeply rooted in rural Oregon and farming culture ... It’s one of the best YA — or dare I say books? — I’ve read in years.