Category: Literacy 2025

AM Shine’s suspense thriller about strangers trapped inside a strange bunker in the middle of a dark forest

Elizabeth Hand’s folk horror novel about the making of an early 1970s album in a remote, ancient manor house

My second attempt at making sense of a Ngaio Marsh murder mystery

John Wyndham’s classic (and often adapted) story of first contact in a quiet English village

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel about the dark magic of film

A solid cozy murder mystery by Kristen Perrin about a paranoid elderly woman who provided all the clues to solve her own murder

Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience

John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains

Mark Dery’s comprehensive biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey

Ngaio Marsh’s surprisingly modern entry into detective fiction