Reactor Magazine Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2025 Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Dead & Breakfast by Rosiee Thor, Kat Hillis (A Dead & Breakfast Mystery, #1)
The new vampires in town are sinking their teeth into solving a murder…
Married odd couple Arthur and Sal …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Alex Brown
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The Dead Withheld by L. D. Lewis
Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/deadwalker witch. In this sapphic paranormal neo-noir, we follow her exploits in the neon-drenched desert …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Alex Brown
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From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Martin Cahill and Mahvesh Murad
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Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the author of Manhunt, …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Tobias Carroll
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In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to …
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Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
4 stars
Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking science-fiction story of trans self-discovery from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.
When your …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Tobias Carroll
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Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Maya Gittelman and Natalie Zutter
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Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the northeast of …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Maya Gittelman
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The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo
A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in Lambda Literary fellow Victor Manibo’s new gothic tale of family, homecoming, …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Maya Gittelman
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Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen (Little Thieves, #3)
4 stars
It's been nearly two years since Vanja brought down the cult she started, and she’s still paying the price. As …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Jenny Hamilton
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Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier (The Magpie and the Wolf Duology, #1)
With their freedom on the line, a young woman and a rakish pirate take their fate into their own hands …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Jenny Hamilton
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Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy about the …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Jenny Hamilton
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The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds—real, invented, uncanny —in this ingenious, electrifying collection.
A Trinidadian obeah …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Matthew Keeley
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The Rose Field by Philip Pullman (The Book of Dust, #3)
The breathtaking conclusion to Philip Pullman’s landmark new trilogy The Book of Dust! Return to the world of His Dark …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Matthew Keeley
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Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of …
Phil in SF says: Listed by Maura Krause
