Hallie has finished a dark academia series and Pam tries her luck at reading new releases.

Books mentioned, in order:
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, tr by Julia Meitov Hersey
Assassin of Reality by the Dyachenkos
School of Shards by the Dyachenkos
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Killer on the Road by Stephen Graham Jones
The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Hot Wax by M.L. Rio
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Culpability by Bruce Holsinger


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