All the (More!) Books! January 23, 2026
All the Books!
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
| 0:03.0 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab. |
| 0:08.0 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:16.0 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy, whilst that's last. |
| 0:34.9 | You're listening to All the More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm your host, Danica Ellis, and today I'm talking about three sapphic horror or gothic novels that I am anticipating in 2026. I feel like every episode |
| 0:48.5 | of all the more books, I just kind of take you hostage so I can talk about the queer books |
| 0:53.7 | I'm thinking about, because |
| 0:55.3 | I'm always thinking about queer books, and I'm not sorry about it. I am kind of a reluctant |
| 1:04.0 | horror fan. I have never liked horror movies, especially. I haven't been a big fan of horror books. You know, |
| 1:13.7 | I did goosebumps when I was a kid. But generally speaking, I avoided horror for most of my life |
| 1:20.5 | because I'm a scared cat and because I have, you know, the kind of anxiety that as soon as something upsets me, it will be in a loop in my brain until it no longer elicits a reaction. |
| 1:36.1 | So I have tried to avoid horror, but some of the people that I love most are big horror fans. And slowly, I keep getting pulled towards horror. |
| 1:51.0 | You know, it's been a few movies that have really challenged what I think of horror movies to be, have really expanded the genre for me, and then a few |
| 2:05.6 | horror books, and a few became a lot, and all of a sudden, some of my most anticipated |
| 2:12.6 | books of the year are horror books. And as usual, it is mostly queer books that have me expanding my reading |
| 2:21.5 | taste, because queer books encompass all formats and genres and tones and everything else. |
| 2:30.1 | So because that's kind of my inn, I find myself picking up books I might not have otherwise. |
| 2:38.3 | And now here I am. |
| 2:40.0 | I am forced to admit that actually I love a sapphic gothic novel. |
| 2:44.8 | I love a queer vampire story. |
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