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All the Backlist! September 6, 2024

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week, Danika recommends a couple of queer SFF novellas. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Join Book Riot's editorial staff and expert guest writers at The Deep Dive, your destination for deep thoughts on all things reading, behind-the-scenes insights, informed takes, and so much more. Whether we're analyzing book deal trends, whittling down the best books of the century, or letting you in on the best book club book of the summer, you'll find something to nerd out over and enrich your reading life. With decades of experience in books and publishing between us, we have a wealth of knowledge, thoughts, and curated goodness we can't wait to share with you. Go ahead and take the plunge. Visit bookriot.com/deepdive to subscribe for free, or become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year and get unlimited access to members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies knowing you are supporting independent media. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw Finna by Nino Cipri Defekt by Nino Cipri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:15.0

I'm your host Danica Ellis. This is episode number 479.5,

0:20.0

and today I have a couple of queer SFF not bellows to recommend for you.

0:25.0

Obviously me recommending queer books is not unusual.

0:29.0

It's more than half of what I read, it's what I love.

0:32.0

I think I recommend it almost every time I'm on

0:34.8

all the backlist but the reason I'm thinking about SFF novellas is that this

0:41.1

year I am helming the ship of the Reed Harder Challenge newsletter.

0:47.0

So if you haven't checked it out, I mean, there's still time.

0:50.0

You could still finish the 2024 Read Harder Challenge if you really applied yourself or if you happen to

0:58.4

coincide with the prompts. I've had a lot of fun writing it and researching and figuring out all of the books I'm going to recommend for each prompt and one of them is Sci-Fi Novellas, which is actually a prompt that I suggested,

1:17.0

because I feel like this is a particular category that has really exploded recently. I think there are a lot more really

1:26.1

interesting sci-fi novelas coming out all the time and there are many that are on my TBR that just came out this year, but of course this is all the backlist.

1:38.6

So I want to talk about some that came out last year or before. I've got one that's a sort of I guess

1:47.0

paranormal romance novella. It is about a Ware Bear fashionista and the other one is an anti-capitalist

1:58.4

sci-fi wacky adventure between exes and I really enjoyed both of them. But before I get

2:06.9

into those recommendations I want to talk about another newsletter another one I

2:11.8

write actually I'm one of the writers and that is the deep dive so if you

2:17.1

like book riot you will like the deep dive the deep dive is basically just Book Riot condensed into one place.

2:25.7

It is our editorial staff and some expert guest writers talking about the things that they're

2:31.1

interested in, the things that they are experts in, it's all things reading.

2:36.0

You get some behind the scenes insights into Book Riot.

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