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Fever Dream: A Novel
Samanta Schweblin
Megan McDowell
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“Genius.” —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream....
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.
Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
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💭 what scares you the most?
to me, it’s usually not a creature or a random serial killer. it’s when you can’t trust your own mind or your own instincts or your own home or your own friends. when real-life terrors (often built from hatred) and something … beyond … combine for the ultimate sort of horror.
📚 books mentioned: - Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell - Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
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thank you to MIRA/HTP and Simon Teen for the gifted copies!
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • May 11
eco horror, eco thriller, eco speculative fiction …
eco horror, eco thriller, eco speculative fiction … i love a story of nature pushing back.
📚 books mentioned: - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell and Ruth Sepp - Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice - Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei - At Sea by Y.M. Abdel-Magied
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thank you to Flatiron Books and Pegasus Books for the gifted copies!
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Dec 17 2025
💭 what’s a book you want to read before the end of 2025?
💭 what’s a book you want to read before the end of 2025?
i love picking up novellas! especially when they’re a bit weird or take a risk and explore something really unique (Tordotcom always comes through for me there).
📚 books mentioned: - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell and Ruth Sepp - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark - The Strange Beautiful by Carla Crujido - The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar - Death Among the Stars by C.M. Lockhart
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thank you to Tordotcom, Chin Music Press, and Ingram Sparks for the gifted copies!
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Aug 9 2025
my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it.
my passion is just shouting horror books at you until you read them. do it.
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thank you to MIRA/HPT Hive, Simon Teen, Sourcebooks, Inkyard Press, Scholastic, Bantam, and William Morrow for the gifted copies!
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thank you to Grove Press and Restless Books for the gifted copies!!
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thank you to Flatiron Books and Pegasus Books for the gifted copies!
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