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Traveling Light: Unpacking a Story
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The Just City Jo Walton Tor Books Publication Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3266-0 I…
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Neil Gaiman William Morrow Publishers Publication Date: ISBN 978-0-06-233026-0…
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LitStack Review: The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell
The Severed Streets Paul Cornell Tor Books Publication Date: May 20, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-3028-4 It’s…
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A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab Tor Books Release Date: February 24, 2015…
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LitStack Review: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Golden Son Pierce Brown Del Rey Books Release Date: January 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-345-53981-6 ATTENTION! …
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LitStack Recs: Without & Three Parts Dead
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanWithout Donald Hall This book is the one of the few that, when I pick…
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Gemini Cell Myke Cole Ace Books Release Date: January 27, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-26964-0 They’re lying…
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LitStack Review: Aces Abroad: Wild Card IV edited by George R. R. Martin
Aces Abroad: Wild Card IV Edited by George R. R. Martin Tor Books Re-release Date: …
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Glow Ned Beauman Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: January 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-385-35260-4 Raf is…
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A Brief Look at the British Travel Memoir
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThree authors linked by the British tradition of going by foot and writing about it.…
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City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books Release Date: September 9, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8041-3717-1…
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Bird Box Josh Malerman Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: May 13, 2014 ISBN 978-0-06-225965-3 Bird Box. …
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LitStack Review: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
The Southern Reach Trilogy Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer Release Date: February 2, 2014 /…
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Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie Orbit Books Release Date: October 7, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-24665-1 The following…
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LitStack Review: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks David Mitchell Random House Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4000-6567-7 Back…
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Defenders Will McIntosh Orbit Books Release Date: May 13, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-21776-7 Sometimes, after reading…
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Flash Review – Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Through the Woods Emily Carroll Margaret K. McElderry Books Release Date: July 15, 2014 ISBN…
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Us David Nicholls HarperCollins Publishers Release Date: October 28, 2014 ISBN 978-0-06-236558-3 Douglas Petersen is…
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The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison A Tor Book Release Date: April 1, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-2699-7…
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LitStack Review: Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Leaving Time Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books Release Date: October 14, 2014 ISBN 978-0-345-54492-6 Jodi Picoult…
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LitStack Review: The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
The Laughing Monsters Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: November 4, 2014 978-0-374-28059-8…
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LitStack Review: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng The Penguin Press Release Date: June 26, 2014…
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All or Nothing – One Chef’s Appetite for the Extreme Jesse Schenker Dey Street Books…
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LitStack Review: Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
Windigo Island William Kent Krueger Atria Books Release Date: August 19, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4767-4923-5 Windigo…
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LitStack Review: The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Doubt Factory Paolo Bacigalupi Little, Brown and Company Release Date: October 14, 2014 ISBN…
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LitStack Review: Lock In by John Scalzi
Lock In John Scalzi Tor Books Release Date: August 26, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-7586-5 It just…
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The Book With No Pictures B. J. Novak Dial Books for Young Readers Release Date: …
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LitStack Review: Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
Maplecroft – The Borden Dispatches Cherie Priest ROC Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN 978-0-451-46697-6…
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The Widow’s House Daniel Abraham Orbit Release Date: August 5, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-20398-2 Book Four…
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LitStack Review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: September 24, 2013…
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LitStack Review: Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish
Owl and the Japanese Circus Kristi Charish Simon & Schuster Release Date: January 13, 2015…
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release…
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LitStack Review: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner Release Date: May 6, 2014 ISBN…
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LitStack Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: September 9, 2014 ISBN…
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The Mirror Empire (The Worldbreaker Saga, Book 1) Kameron Hurley Angry Robot Release Date: August…
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Sweetness #9 Stephan Eirik Clark Little, Brown and Company Release Date: August 19, 2014 ISBN…
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10:04 Ben Lerner Faber and Faber Release Date: September 2, 2014 ISBN 978-0-86547-810-7 It’s not…
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The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Eddie Campbell…
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The Iron Trial Holly Black and Cassandra Clare Scholastic Press Release Date: September 9, 2014…
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LitStack Review: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests Sarah Waters Riverhead Books Release Date: September 16, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59463-311-9 Sarah…
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LitStack Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot David Shafer Little, Brown and Company Release Date: August 5, 2014 Awfully…
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LitStack Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel Alfred…
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Joss Whedon: The Biography Amy Pascale Chicago Review Press Incorporated Release Date: August 1, 2014…
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Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey Orbit Release Date: June 17, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-21762-0 Cibola…
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The Magician’s Land Lev Grossman Viking Release Date: August 5, 2014 ISBN 978-0-670-01567-2 It was…