Book*hug Wrapped: Authors’ Edition

To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2023 authors to recommend some titles that they’ve read recently and loved!

Paola Ferrante, author of Her Body Among Animals

• The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
• Pebble & Dove by Amy Jones
• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

Sandra Ridley, author of Vixen

• Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl
• Dark Traffic by Joan Naviyuk Kand
• There Is No Blue by Martha Ballie

Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• The Whole Animal by Corinna Chong
• Grey All Over by Andrea Actis

Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes

 

• Galumpf by Marie Hélène Poitras
• The Imposters by Tom Rachman
• End Times by Michelle Syba

Clara Dupuis Morency, author of Sadie X

• La Fractale Baudelaire by Lisa Robertson
• Do You Remember Being Born by Sean Michaels
• This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure

Aimee Wall, author of We, Jane

 

• Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir
• The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
• One Day I’ll Remember This by Helen Garner

Moez Surani, author of The Legend of Baraffo

• Sheets by Cameron Anstee
• Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito
• South by Babak Lakghomi

Kathryn Mockler, author of Anecdotes

• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality by Lindsay Wong
• The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert