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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • Nov 13 2024

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If you watch Parks & Rec you may know what "treat yoself day" is, but if you don't, it's one day a year you go to your favorite stores and treat yourself! Now when it comes to Pango...I may treat myself a bit too much. But at these prices I can afford it! Especially when I sell my old books on Pango and get money to buy more books! Here's what I bought, mostly from Carmen @tomesandtextiles, who promotes Latinx books. You should definitely follow her on tiktok and Pango!

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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • Jul 2

\ \ Since this month started on a Wednesday, it's been a whole week without new releases for July! But a lot of books I've really been looking forward to come out this month, and I've gotten my grubby little golem hands on a few ARCs, so I can tell you that some of them lived up to the hype!\ \ The Delivery: A Novella by Gregg Hurwitz (Thomas & Mercer- Amazon's Mystery Imprint, July 1) - An AI butler is designed to anticipate what a family wants. But when inexplicable tragedies strike in the neighborhood, the family realizes that their AI companion is executing their darkest desires, and they must stop him.\ \ The Bird Tribe: The Dreambird Chronicles, Book 3 (Tor, July 7) - I'll tell you about the first book to avoid spoilers! In this post apocalyptic Unites States, a new slave trade is started in the ashes. Ji-ji was bred and raised under this subjugation and must win an annual competition in which the first prize is freedom.\ \ Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire, July 7) - Chuck Tingle always rocks my socks off, and I'm not even a gruesome horror girlie, his writing is just GRIPPING. In his latest book, a social media influencer by day and grave robber at night meets her match when her Elton John-like idol dies and she is hired to steal his body...only he's not all the way dead, and he has a mission, and he is forcing her to help him complete it. If you were a Goosebumps kid, I promise you that you're a Chuck Tingle adult. And if you've already read anything by Chuck? Well, you won't be dissapointed.\ \ Formula Zero by Meredith Lanzen (Penguin Random House, July 7) - A formula one romcom but make it in space, with childhood friends turned competitors, back in each others orbits.\ \ The Memory Bookshop by Song Yu-jeong, Translated by Shanna Tan (Harper Collins, July 7) I will never list an author without their translator after reading Babel! That shit is important! If you're grieving, you might come across the Memory Bookshop, or at least, it might find you. After losing her mother, Jiwon is offered the chance to travel back in time 3 chapters of her life if she gives up time in her future. Jiwon must decide if the past can be rewritten or if the magic is in the life she has yet to live.\ \ Icefall: The Rise of Nine by Michael Newman and Jon Land (Permuted Press - Indie, July 14) - A team of superbeings placed on Earth a million years ago by intergalactic colonizers that seeded our planet to create human life are awakened from their long slumber to protect Earth from a predatory alien threat. Sounds very Transformers meets superhero.\ \ Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney (Macmillan, July 14) - A queer cli-fi fantasy retelling about a young trans woman who must save her closest sister from the King of Misery. On the way she receives help from her other sisters, who have married the King of the Air and the King of the Sea. And perhaps on the way she may find a love of her own.\ \ Not With a Bang by Temi Oh (Simon & Schuester, July 14) - A doomsday tale of a family who must fight their way back together amidst an extinction level event. But this isn't a surface level tale. This family is already in crisis as the father's doomsday prepping causes his daughters mental health disasters and the mother's health declines.\ \ Null Entity, The Volatile Memory Duology Book 2 by Seth Haddon (Tordotcom, July 21) - I read the Volatile Memory novella last year and it was so unique. The premise is that an AI lives in masks that scavengers need to survive. But a mask one finds has the last scavenger's personality still in it, which is not supposed to be possible, but this mask is special. She forms a relationship with the person in the mask and must escape from everyone else who wants the mask. I have this sequel sitting in my TBR for up next.\ \ Affairs of State by Calvin James (Titan Books, July 28) - The MC is named Levar Boylan so I'm already in because I know Calvin James is as obsessed with Levar Burton as me. High stakes cut throat politics in the stars. Levar, a junior supply officer is pulled to the front lines to serve a diplomat during peace talks, but the Emperor they are negotiating with is his ex, and of course, there are still sparks.\ \ Biological War by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, July 28) - A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. This book isn't really fiction though, it's an examination of how the government, mediacl world, and military would react to this very possible scenario.\ \ Daggermouth by HM Wolfe (Simon & Schuester, July 28) - Set in a corrupt surveillance state ruled by the masked elite, this dystopian romance features a presidential heir entagled in secrets that could topple the regime and a mercenary hired to kill him. I'm holding the ARC to this book and it's next up after I finish Null Entity and Dreamland, Olivie Blake's new genre bending horror that comes out in August.\ \ The Red Woman on Mars by Claire Barner (Diversion Books, indie, July 28) - I'm going to be an asshole here and shit talk another book, Pride & Prejudice in Space, which I hated, in order to talk about how much I'm looking forward to a REAL retelling of Jane Austen's classic. P&P in Space should have been everything I wanted in a book, my favorite classic retold in my favorite genre. But the author only changed the setting and nothing else in the story. She never addressed why women were still essentially chattel property in the space traveling era. She literally just changed everything about locations and used all the same original wording. THIS book is about a climate refugee contracted as a birth mother to genetically modified Mars children. It's almost impossible to get an ARC from an indie publisher but you can bet your sweet ass I'm about to try!\ \ Star Wars: Legacy by Madeline Roux (Penguin Random House, July 28) - Set between Episodes VIII and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey’s lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi.\ \ See you next month. Or, hear me out, subscribe and hear from me more often if you actually made it to the bottom of this, because presumably that means you like reading...whatever this is.\ \ — Zee\ \

7/7/26 New Sci-fi Titles This Month

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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • Jul 1

Officially, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual $25,000 cash prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.\ \ Practically, it's a TBR for those of us who read sci-fi with purpose, with intent, with a critical reading eye looking for "the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope." (-a quote from Ursula herself)\ \ So without further ado, here's the shortlist for this year.\ \ Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press, June 10, 2025)\ \ Three rom-com quoting MCs travel from incarceration to exile to a place beyond punishment. Audition explores carceral politics and the psychology of violence, and what healing from the harm of those systems might require in a world where embodiment and identity have lost all familiar forms.\ \ Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press. Sept 16, 2025)\ \ What if robots needed to be raised? Weaving comedy with a vision of parental care that encompasses beings built as well as born, Alexander considers caretaking and community alongside power and resistance. In his future, another way of living is possible—though getting to it is never easy.\ \ Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell(Neon Hemlock, Oct 14, 2025)\ \ Caldwell's speculative and fantastical stories are grounded in the realities, dreams, struggles, and relationships that animate queer lives. Each tale takes seriously the interconnections of class, race, geography, gender, and sexuality—while making striking imaginative leaps into history, the present, and the future.\ \ Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin, Sept 4, 2025)\ \ This novel in ghost stories, with its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies. Chung’s deep understanding of haunting—and of hierarchies, class, and gender—reminds us that we are a society haunted by its own cruelty, and, crucially, that we have other options.\ \ The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books, Oct 14, 2025)\ \ This story of revolution takes place in a city riddled with strange vermin, their exterminators, and a wealthy ruling class who are all but inescapable. Ennes's novel explores resistance, repression, cycles of violence, and the way art and culture are the materials of social change—but can also be key to the consolidation of power.\ \ Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books, April 15, 2025)\ \ Notes from a Regicide is a multilayered, intimate history of two generations of trans characters in the distant (but strangely familiar) future. As Griffon Keming tries to understand his deceased and beloved second parents, Fellman’s narrative twines around art, revolution, disability, love, history, and the specific, often physical, cost of every kind of change.\ \ Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books, Sept 9, 2023)\ \ Using myth, fictional scholarship, alchemy, folktales, and animism, Mehta creates a quantum form of storytelling that follows the relationship between two sets of sisters, generations and worlds apart. Mad Sisters of Esi builds upon itself, layer by rich narrative layer, weaving together an all-encompassing saga of grief, love, legacy, and creation.\ \ One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp, Feb 11, 2025)\ \ In four loosely connected tales, Mohamed explores the way people—soldiers and civilians, bureaucrats and gallows-builders—live during wartime, occupation, and colonization. In one story, ghostly soldiers fight the destruction of their traditions; in another, a young woman finds resistance in the practice of her craft. \ \ Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit, Nov 18, 2025)\ \ Admittedly the only one I've even heard of and read, this galaxy-spanning space opera explores the fraught, connected roles of power and love as a series of worlds face destruction. Through the perspective of Maw, who was once human but is now something else, capitalism, collective choice, fascism, gender, freedom, the necessity of art collide with the question of how we decide what—and who—matters.

Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2026

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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • Jun 5

\ \ OK listen, I can't keep up with this every week Tuesday releases shit, I missed all of May and I just realized it. I'm doing my best dahling, this is a hobby and nobody pays book influencers. And I don’t think you understand how long it takes to format these damn things with all the book pics, because I did it and copied it in here and lost it all, and that your attention span is already almost gone without a picture to distract your brain. I'm working on a really interesting article about the death of booktok, and I don’t want to suck more time away from that. You should watch out for it. (Hint hint)\ \ So I'm going to do a big slog into every month instead, tell you what's coming, give you a chance to get those preorders in and SUPPORT THOSE AUTHORS! So what's coming out this month? Well NOT Alecto the Ninth, my lamentatious lyctoral league.\ \ By genre:\ \ SPACE OPERA\ \ \ \ Recursion: Germinal Book 2 by Aric McBay (AK Press, indie) - June 9 – A pacifist society on a tiny green planet is invaded by Colonizers. I’ve had book 1 sitting on my shelf, because I cannot pass up fiction by AK Press, and I definitely need to pick up book 1 this week. It would be greeeeeeat if I could put down my phone and read a book. It’s summer and the kids need wifi free time too, so I guess I’ll be figuring out how to set up parental controls on the router this week, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay\ \ \ \ The Forgetting Navigations by Marlee Jane Ward (Interstellar Flight Press, indie) - June 9 – Our main character has eMoTiOnAl dAmAgE from being abandoned in a lifepod in space. A freight hauler rescues her and they bond over tea. Then the past comes a knocking, as it does in stories. This may be more of a litfic in space thing, but it’s honestly hard to tell without reading. I feel like Space Opera implies more action, but subgenres are not a science, so you will have to judge a book by it’s description.\ \ \ \ The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press) - June 2 – In a bioship capable of reacting to a crew’s every need, a nine year old cultist with a brain enhancement investigates a planet infected with a plague. The crew also includes an assassin, an engineer who has been jigsawwed together with surgeries, an addict medic, and a “nonmodded” captain who doesn’t like the nine year old, this has all the makings of a found family space opera.\ \ POST-APOCALYPTIC\ \ \ \ Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth (Graywolf, and Indie Press) - June 9 – Kind of a romance between a woman raised in a pod in the ocean and a woman who may or may not be a robot. But also earth is now a charcoal briquette and everyone has gone to Mars except a handful of holdouts trying to construct a molecular collection of Earth stuff for people to eventually repopulate. And what the hell is a soul globule? You’ll have to read Earth 7 to find out.\ \ \ \ The Withers by Lee Upton (Regal House Publishing) - June 23 – I mean kinda dystopian but also kind of a thriller, this is a post epidemic book where scars from the disease are called withers. A woman is living with the surgeon who saved her and his preggo wife, in a world where organ traffickers roam the streets. They have to fight to protect the woman and her fetus, and they’re calling this a “Grimm’s fairytale” like story.\ \ SPECULATIVE / LITERARY SCI-FI\ \ \ \ Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2 – Imagine you immigrate to a new country. But the rule is, you get cloned, and only the clone gets to go and you have to stay. You’re cut in two, and you can keep in touch with your other self or not. The MC of this book does not, until she’s called back to Korea for a funeral. She doesn’t know that her original self plans to switch places with her. Obviously, this is a deep dive into the psychological effects of immigration. Do you love the Doppelgängers trope?\ \ \ \ Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2 – Genetically engineered animals do the work while humans relax in the sun. A racoon is hired to track down a very important mouse. Why is the mouse important? It has something everyone wants. A familiar story if told about humans, but I’m interested to see it told from animals perspective. I’ve never read an Adrian Tchaikovsky book, any of my scifi besties want to give me some opinions on whether I should?\ \ \ \ Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes (Bindery/Mareas Books, indie) - June 9 – In a fantasy retelling of a 1920’s era all-Black free town, women known as “carriers” pull traumatic memories from men so that the town is populated with men free of their pain, while the remnants of the past haunt the women. In a world where we expect Black Women to save us all, this book is an exploration of what it’s like to live with that expectation.\ \ \ \ Voyagers by Meg Charlton (HarperCollins) - June 16 – a signal arrives from the edge of the solar system in a first contact story. While everyone on earth loses their collective shit, Alex’s old wounds are opened, because two decades ago, she and her friend Ana were abducted at age six. After which followed a media frenzy no child should endure, especially not after some trauma like that. Ana went on to be an advocate for the abducted while Alex tried to move on and forget. But now they are drawn back together in a story about friendship, family, and truth. \ \ \ \ A City Dreaming by Maurice Broaddus, Book 3 in the Astra Black series (Macmillan/Tor) - June 30 – This series follows a young political leader, a woman in an elite military unit, and a captain of a starship, who are all part of the Muungano empire, a coalition of city states that stretches from Old Earth to Titan, in their quest to form an empire free of endless wars and oppression. This Afrofuturist spec fic series deserves a lot more press than it gets. Come on Tor, do better in your promotion!!!\ \ \ \ The Moon Papers by Emmalea Russo (Arcade Publishing, Skyhorse) - June 30 – A controversial arts collective is going to launch a second moon from the Mojave Desert into Earth’s atmosphere in a project they are calling Moon 2. I am deeply concerned, but the book is coined as raucous, psychedelic, and humorous, which I am translating as publisher speak for, they think it’s funny as shit. But the description isn’t, so someone isn’t doing marketing properly. IDK, I need a preview to see if it’s any good.\ \ \ \ The Young Die Old by Nguyễn Bình Phương with Khải Q. Nguyễn (translator) (Major Books, indie) - June 30 – This may be more of a fantasy, but in my searches for sci-fi it keeps popping up so the author must have filed it this way somewhere. Two feuding families fight for control of a buried treasure, but there reality blurs with hallucination, as spirits, doppelgängers, and collective guilt haunt the living. A society grapples with the aftershocks of war, repression, and silence, with a generation of children who age prematurely under the weight of unspoken histories. You won't find this one on Amazon, and hells yeah, fuck Bezos! You can find it here.\ \ TIME TRAVEL\ \ \ \ The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (Macmillan/Tor) - June 2 – at 7:51am, Scott Treder slips forward through time 24 hours. And every day, he slips again, losing double the amount of time each time slip. And while everyone ages normally, he doesn’t. His son ages beyond him. Years pass by in his marriage. It’s giving Click with Adam Sandler. I wonder how different it will be. Yall, this cover sucks. Nobody is going to buy this book based on this cover, what are you doing Tor???\ \ \ \ Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein (Penguin Random House/Ballantine) - June 23 – An out of work actress takes a job as a time travel tour guide at a company called Retro, taking wealthy tourists on vacations to historical hot spots. She loves it, thrilling in the romance of an office crush and a 1937 private eye pursuing her. But slowly she notices some strange things happening to her memory and her relationships outside of Retro, and escaping into the past was never really an escape at all. I am wildly interested to see if this speaks to the escapism we justify with Netflix and doom scrolling and romance reading in the present.\ \ ROMANCE\ \ \ \ Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne (Macmillan/Bramble) - June 30 – from the author of A Pirate’s Life for Tea comes this cozy sci-fi romance about a starship captain  who purchases a ship covered in Moss with an organic computer inside with a snarky attitude who loathes it’s builder because the immortal alien abandoned it. NGL, snarky AI’s in ships used to be my jam, but the way I’ve been feeling about real AI may change my enjoyment of them.\ \ \ \ Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen (LittlePuss Press, indie) – May 19 (shut your mouth, I missed this one and it deserves attention. It's pride month and this cover deserves praise alone, and that's before I've touched the book! Sue me. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.) Trans enemies to lovers in which a magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must find a way to stay on a date forever...even if it means destroying the world.\ \ THRILLER\ \ \ \ The Other by Annie Neugebauer (Shortwave Publishing, indie) - June 9 – this is a Book 2 Outsiders Sequence, which is a novella series. I’ve never read a novella series but I think I could get into that! Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra? That’s the premise of the first book. This one is about a couple on an outdoor retreat who meet their doppelgangers.\ \ \ \ Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer (Macmillan/Tordotcom) - June 2 – An out of work OBGYN who has gotten publicly crucified for offering abortion care is kidnapped by a cult to help birth their babies. And she gets kidnapped on page friggin 10. If you’ve been in a slump this one’s for you, I read it in a single sitting, and I have 3 kids at home for the summer while I’m trying to run a business. I generally don’t DO that. Crazy, seat of your pants, worth a read.\ \ \ \ Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay (HarperCollins/Morrow) - June 2 – So this semi professional gamer gets a nepotism job piloting a man in a vegetative state across the country, Weekend at Bernie’s style. He has an AI implant in his head and she can control his body using a cell phone. But he’s not dead. He’s living this grotesque hellscape where he doesn’t remember who he is or why there’s a rabbit tattoo on his arm. Their stories intertwine and they end up fugitives. Noooo, I didn’t give the plot twist away – it was right there in the book description!\ \ ANTHOLOGY\ \ \ \ Ring Shout on Saturn by Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books, indie) - June 9 – Afrofuturist short stories that range from a prophet building a starship (very Noah’s Arc) to alien sisters navigating human complexities. And that cover? That’s an AMAZING cover and I’m here for it. This is actually book2 of the three book The Root and Sky series, but they're all short stories so there's no reason you can't go ahead and preorder this one, read it, then get the rest!\ \ \ \ And an honorable mention to Lovecraft: Selected Stories, one of the Chiltern Classics being released on June 9. If you want to know more about my obsession with this set, read this. Or don't. Sometimes I'm convinced I'm living in a silo and nobody is reading any of this anyway. Either way, it's good practice writing, no?\ \ See you next week. Because I'm still writing blogs, they just won't all be book lists of upcoming stuff. I need creative time as well as research time to feed my soul AND brain! (But not AI. Never that.)\ \ — Zee\ \

6/3/26 - New Sci-fi Titles This Month

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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • Jun 5

​\ \ \ \ ​Updated June 5, 2026\ \ Chiltern releases approximately 8 of these at a time once or twice per year - you can even buy journals to match. They are very sturdy and hold up well to reading and have gilted gold and silver edges. This is the perfect collection for someone who wants a readable set of classics. Here you go my doves:\ \ ​2026 July 21\ \ Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories 978-1914602801\ \ Villette by Charlotte Brontë 978-1917940573\ \ White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 978-1914602825\ \ Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens 978-1914602795\ \ Lady Chatterley's Lover by David Herbert Lawrence 978-1917940559\ \ The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 978-1914602818\ \ Lovecraft: Selected Stories by HP Lovecraft 978-1917940580\ \ The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 978-1917940597\ \ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 978-1914602788\ \ The Kybalion by William Walker Atkinson 978-1917940566\ \ 2026 February 17\ \ Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne 9781914602764\ \ 2025 October 28\ \ The Trial by Franz Kafka 9781914602719\ \ 2025 October 7\ \ The Odyssey by Homer 9781914602726\ \ The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781914602757\ \ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781914602733\ \ A collection of verse by Jalal al-Din Rumi 9781914602696\ \ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781914602749\ \ 2025 August 19\ \ Heidi by Joanna Spyri 9781914602597\ \ 2025 June 17\ \ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9781914602535\ \ 2024 December 24\ \ Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 9781914602580\ \ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 978191462627\ \ Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 9781914602559\ \ Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781914602566\ \ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe 9781914602542\ \ Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales 9781914602528\ \ King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781914602603\ \ Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781914602610\ \ The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 9781914602573\ \ 2024 December 10\ \ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 9781914602634\ \ 2024 October 1\ \ Grimm's Fairy Tales 9781914602443\ \ The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 9781914602511\ \ Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 9781914602504\ \ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 9781914602474\ \ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 9781914602467\ \ The Arabian Nights 9781914602481\ \ The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 9781914602450\ \ Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 9781914602498\ \ 2024 January 30 (Postponed from November 21, 2023)\ \ Call Of The Wild by Jack London 9781914602252\ \ Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9781914602245\ \ Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9781914602214\ \ The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 9781914602221\ \ The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781914602238\ \ The Time Machine by H.G Wells 9781914602276\ \ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 9781914602269\ \ ​\ \ 2023 July 11 (postponed from May 30)\ \ Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 9781914602115\ \ Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9781914602146\ \ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9781914602153\ \ The Iliad by Homer 9781914602108\ \ Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781914602139\ \ The Moonstone by William Wilkie Collins 9781914602177\ \ Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 9781914602191\ \ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 9781914602184\ \ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 9781914602207\ \ The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9781914602122\ \ ​\ \ 2022 Aug 22\ \ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9781914602054\ \ Animal Farm by George Orwell 9781914602061\ \ Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9781914602016\ \ Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott 9781914602009\ \ Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie 9781914602078\ \ The Romantic Poets by Various Keats etc. 9781914602047\ \ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781914602030\ \ Silas Marner by George Eliot 9781914602023\ \ ​\ \ 2021\ \ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 978-1912714988 (this was part of the 2021 release but was not released until Dec 27, 2022)\ \ The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 978-1912714957\ \ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 978-1912714926\ \ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 978-1912714971\ \ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 978-1912714940\ \ The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 978-1912714919\ \ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 978-1912714964\ \ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 978-1912714933\ \ ​\ \ 2020\ \ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 978-1912714735\ \ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 978-1912714704\ \ Dracula by Bram Stoker 978-1912714674\ \ The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 978-1912714681\ \ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 978-1912714728\ \ Moby Dick by Herman Melvile 978-1912714698\ \ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WIlde 978-1912714742\ \ Tess of D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy 978-1912714711\ \ ​\ \ 2019\ \ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 978-1912714339\ \ Emma by Jane Austen 978-1912714261\ \ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 978-1912714322\ \ The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupéry 978-1912714308\ \ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 978-1912714292\ \ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 978-1912714285\ \ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 978-1912714278\ \ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 978-1912714315\ \ ​\ \ 2018\ \ The Art of War by Sun Tzu 978-1912714056\ \ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 978-1912714001\ \ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 978-1912714063\ \ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 978-1912714018\ \ Persuasion by Jane Austen 978-1912714025\ \ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 978-1912714032\ \ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 978-1912714049\ \ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 978-1912714070

Collector's Corner: Chiltern Classics

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Tattooed Bibliophiles\ \ Zee\ \ • May 4

\ \ Like that title? Just a little Catholic humor. \ \ Every nerd greets each other with this Star Wars themed saying on May the 4th, but did you know that we've been doing it since 1979?! That's right, before this elder millenial was even born. \ \ If you haven't watched Star Wars, I won't shame you, it's old AF. But the Jedi have a saying, "May the Force be with you" aka the force that lies between all things in the universe. Catholics say "Peace be with you" as a greeting at church. So if you're Catholic AND a nerd I will tell you that our gut instinct is to reply to "May the Fourth be with you" with "and also with you," which works, is a super weird reply to non-Catholics, but a hilarious joke if you do practice the religion of booze and guilt. \ \ The first recorded use of the phrase was on May 3, 1979 in a UK newspaper, The London Evening News. In the UK election, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister. To celebrate her victory, the Conservative Party took out a newspaper ad reading "May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations." (If you're shocked that conservatives elected a woman, I need you to Google the Overton Window and study up.)\ \ And according to Lucasfilm historian Lucas Seastrom, the casual (aka nonrecorded) use of the phrase actually predates that. It supposedly was used as a gimmick to mark Independence Day celebrations in the summer of 1978.\ \ Language is such a hilarious and ever changing phenomenon, and I'm sure as a reader you can appreciate the fact that some memey trends (6-7 anyone?) may come and go, but some last forever. This one has definitely stood the test of time, so today let's celebrate the 48th anniversary of "May the Fourth be with you." Happy unofficial Star Wars Day!\ \ — Zee\ \ P.S. I'd be remiss if I didn't take this moment to inform you that there is also an unofficial Locked Tomb (Gideon the Ninth) Day. It's September 9th (nines, duh) and to celebrate, we all make and eat soup. Marrow is...optional.\ \

May the 4th Be With You, and also with you

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