June is packed, and so is this episode. Megan, Debra, and Lance break down the biggest new releases hitting the shelves, including Ann Patchett’s quietly unsettling Whistler, Melissa Albert’s dark fairy tale adult fiction The Children, Isabel J. Kim’s buzzy sci fi thriller Sublimation, and Marion, a feminist Psycho retelling where this time, the knife is in her hands.
Then a customer asks for fantasy novels without romance, and the shelf gets complicated fast. Project Hail Mary, Murderbot, Discworld, Piranesi, gothic fiction, Miss Marple, self defense, Harlequins, and Lance’s possible 500 subscriber romance punishment all end up inside the no mance debate.
Can you recommend great books without romance, especially in fantasy?
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📖 The Covered Pages
Books by Melissa Albert
The Children
The Hazel Wood duology and companion
Books by Terry Pratchett
Mort
Hogfather
Guards! Guards!
Books by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Books by Ann Patchett
Whistler
Books by Isabel J. Kim
Sublimation
Books by Katherine Arden
The Unicorn Hunters
Books by Maggie O’Farrell
Land
Books by Lisa See
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Books by Leah Rowan
Marion
Books by Jennifer N. Brown
The Last Book of Elizabeth Barton
Books by John Scalzi
Starter Villain
Books by Martha Wells
Murderbot Diaries
Books by Czajkowski
Green City Wars
Books by Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient
Books by J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
Books by Stephen King
Misery
Books by Edwin Abbott
Flatland
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