#2019 releases
Recursion
by Blake Crouch
Could Blake Crouch please write more books so I can start a novel and then read until the wee hours of the morning every single night of my life?
For some reason, I keep on thinking, If Blake Crouch told me to jump off a bridge, I just might. Though it’d have nothing to do with peer pressure. I think I’d step off that bridge just because I wouldn’t be surprised if his concept of time, space and reality so far transcends mine that that small time continuum disturbance would save the world in some way.
Crouch is simply a master sci-fi storyteller. Do you love slightly alternative worlds to ours? Check. Love near-plausible catastrophic worldwide scenarios? Check. Love books that blow your mind with their theories? Check.
Recursion starts with a world that is suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a seemingly isolated disease in which people experience “false memories” of a life they never lived while simultaneously living the life they do. This naturally causes many a psychotic break. Because what if you remembered a world where you had a spouse and child and rewarding job and suddenly find yourself single, childless and bankrupt?
I almost don’t know how to write about Recursion because there comes a time while reading Crouch’s books where my meager astrophysical understanding of the world collides with reality to create a fissure through which I can peek into a distinct possibility that he is not the storyteller of a fictional tale, but rather a harbinger of a real impending doom.
I read Dark Matter in one sitting. I opened it at bedtime. I turned the last page before I fell asleep. Recursion I savored over the course of a 24-hour period, though from self-control or fear for our precarious world, I cannot say which.
In some way, Blake Crouch writes the stuff of nightmares: science, power, playing God. The problem is: sometimes it’s hard to tell whether or not we’re awake.
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A list of books with sapphic relationships coming out in 2019! If you want me to include a book you can message me about it, but be sure to send books that fit into this list.
MG:
Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
by Rey Terciero, Bre Indigo
Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
YA:
All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
An Impossible Distance to Fall by Miriam McNamara
Carmilla by Kim Turrisi
Children of the River Ghost by Alexandra Aceves
Fabiola & Ylini by Juliet Khan and Amanda Scurti
Going Off-Script by Jen Wilde
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta, Cori McCarthy
Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry
Practically Ever After by Isabel Bandeira
Robbergirl by S.T. Gibson
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
Song of the Dead by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta
The Love & Lies of Rukshana Ali by Sabina Khan
The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
The Poison Within by Rachel Marie Pearcy
The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel by Monique Bonneau
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
The Sun and Moon Beneath the Stars by K. Parr
The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
NA/Adult:
A Curious Woman by Jess Lea
Beautiful Dreamer by Melissa Brayden
Comrade Cowgirl by Yolanda Wallace
Drawing Down The Mist by Sheri Lewis Wohl
Love Has Wings by L.J. Hamlin
Major Surgery by Lola Keeley
Meant to Be Me by Wendy Hudson
My Fake Canadian Wife by M. Hollis
New Ink on Life by Jennie Davids
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
Royal Court by Jenny Frame
Shut Up and Kiss Me by Julie Cannon
Spinning Tales by Brey Willows
Strings Attached by Holly Stratimore
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
The Ashford Place by Jean Copeland
The Book Woman by Laurel Beckley
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Unveiled Attraction by Chelsea M. Cameron
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