Natalie Zutter Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Natalie Zutter

An unflinchingly dark and unflinchingly heartfelt romance between a monster-hunter and her prey—but from the perspective of the monster, who’s seeking a mate in which to lay her eggs... I’m ready for Wiswell to convince us why they’re meant to be.

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In Kaliane Bradley’s delightful-sounding novel, time travel is so bureaucratic as to be mundane... The fish-out-of-water time traveler relationship, not to mention the workplace structures against any personal interactions, is giving vibes of Outlander meets Severance. 3

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Fuller’s fifth novel inhabits the period of a pandemic post-apocalypse.The “Dropsy” virus induces sudden memory loss as a precursor to death... Failed marine biologist Neffy enrolls in a vaccine trial but instead becomes wrapped up in the insular world of her hospital stay.

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I’ve been excited about Babel since R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War trilogy) first teased this magical dark academia tale on Twitter.

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Matt Wallace’s epic fantasy trilogy Savage Rebellion comes to a bloody close with the confrontation between the two women trying to change the supposedly utopian nation of Crache for the better.

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Here for all the dragons this year! narrator Ru ... delves into his family’s nomadic history and begins to wonder if they didn’t just come from another country, but from another realm altogether—one not unlike the fantasy world of his father’s novel The Dragoner’s Daughter…

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The latest psychological thriller from Zando’s Gillian Flynn imprint certainly seems in conversation with Gone Girl: a multiple-perspective account that reveals just how differently men and women move through the world.

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From its first careful analysis of a classic horror jumpscare, Nina Nesseth’s pop science offering is both approachable and mighty impressive in how it breaks down the limbic responses that cause us to shriek when the protagonist stands up and there’s a monster behind them.

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I really enjoyed Yume Kitasei’s generation ship debut The Deep Sky, but I’m even more sold on the premise of her second novel: Maya Hoshimoto is an intergalactic reverse Indiana Jones-meets-Debbie Ocean, which is to say she’s a former art thief renowned for stealing back alien artifacts.

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Think Jasper Fforde’s series about characters who literally fall into a good book, but Sunyi Dean’s debut fantasy has a darker edge to it.