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Debutiful Podcast: Jenny Fran Davis – Dykette
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First Taste: Susie Luo reads from Paper Names
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Can’t-miss debut books you should read in May
Every month, Debutiful selects can’t-miss books from debut authors that readers will love. You can find more recommendations here.
Continue reading “Can’t-miss debut books you should read in May”Can’t-miss debut books you should read in April
Every month, Debutiful selects can’t-miss books from debut authors that readers will love. You can find more recommendations here.
Continue reading “Can’t-miss debut books you should read in April”Read an excerpt from Flux by Jinwoo Chong
Flux by Jinwoo Chong is time-travel crime noir that will break your mind. The wild ride is written with pitch-perfect tension and Chong delivers on everything that is set up. The book left my jaw on the floor page after page and is one of the most fun times I’ve had reading a book. Period.
The story follows the lives of three individuals intersecting in mind-bending ways. There’s an 8-year-old whose mother dies in an accident. A 28-year-old who loses his job. A 48-year-old who is disconnected from his family. Their lives and stories weave in unexpected ways.
Buckle up for one wild ride that you won’t want to get off of.
Flux is out now. You can read an excerpt from the book below.
Continue reading “Read an excerpt from Flux by Jinwoo Chong”Read an excerpt from I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by Marisa Crane
Marisa Crane’s debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself, explores queer parenthood in a near-future dystopian America. In it, Kris is a new mother who is grieving the loss of her wife. She’s also a “Shadester,” a person who has been stripped of civil rights protections due to something she did in her past.
The novel is written in beautiful, vivid fragments that will leave a lump in your throat. Crane taps into their characters’ inner psyche with pitch perfect insight. There is a sense of very real realism in this very weird speculative work of fiction. I first read Crane’s book in August 2022 and I can say I have thought about it at least once a week. Exoskeletons will stay with readers long after the last page. It will haunt readers. It will change how readers think about parenthood, grief, and our country. It’s a must read for anyone looking for one of the best books of 2023.
I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself is out now. You can read an excerpt from the book below.
Continue reading “Read an excerpt from I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by Marisa Crane”Debutiful Podcast: Meghan Gilliss – Lungfish
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A Life of Books: Marston Hefner – High School Romance
Discover Marston Hefner, the author of High School Romance and the editor and founder of Young Magazine, with this A Life of Books questionnaire.
Continue reading “A Life of Books: Marston Hefner – High School Romance”The Best Debut Books of 2022 (So Far)
Below are the fifteen best debut books that Debutiful’s founder Adam Vitcavage has read and covered so far in 2022. The titles include not-quite-dystopian criticisms of our current society, coming-of-age tales that bend the genre’s tropes, family dramas built on memorable characters, and some of the most uniquely crafted short story collections you’ll ever read.
You can purchase all of the books listed below via Debutiful’s Bookshop.org page.
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