For fans who want more gently unfolding plots like Roaming crossed with the happenstance humor of High Maintenance and the verve of John Wray's Gone to the Wolves, this is not one to miss. Brooklyn cartoonist Stein's a musician herself-and part-time local bartender-and her authentic experience touring rocks out through this wry, joyfully watercolored graphic novel styled as a road trip diary of an under-the-radar indie band. Her celebrated recent books have been autobiographical, but this turn to fiction feels still very true to life. - Meg Lemke, comics and graphic novels reviews editor
This slim, singular dispatch from the mind of a queer mountain lion living in the Hollywood Hills is probably my most recommended book of the year. You can gulp it down in a single afternoon, and the lingering buzz from its tonal mastery and syntactic playfulness might make you burn through it again before bed. - Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
This year saw a boom in climate fiction, but Condé's gorgeous debut novella stands out from the pack. Set in a post-collapse Puerto Rico, it centers on a queer indigenous resistance movement and packs an epic's worth of worldbuilding into a bitesize container. - Phoebe Cramer, SFF, horror, and romance reviews editor
This collection of vignettes of the love lives of the 1920s' most famous and infamous European and American artists, writers, and actors adds up to more than the sum of its parts, teasing out the collective emotional shift evident in their intimate thoughts and feeling as the Nazis rise to power in the 1930s.
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