A new year is upon us, and if you’re a reader, you’re most likely looking forward to all the new titles coming out in 2024.
If you like your fiction strange and weird, look no further as we have a list of titles that we believe are worth looking into:
Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung
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Your Utopia is a new collection of creepy and thought-provoking short stories translated from the Korean. There’s a low-level employee who works for “The Center of Immortality Research,” an AI-elevator who falls in love with a tenant in an apartment complex, and an imagining of the planet’s destruction caused by GMO companies. This book is written by Bora Chung, the genre-bending author of Cursed Bunny, so trust her to deliver inescapable terrors that stay with you long after you’ve closed the last page.
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
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This clever and emotionally intense book is about Piglet, a bride-to-be’s hungry and searing journey of self-revelation after she discovers her fiance’s betrayal two weeks before their wedding. She finds herself suddenly…hungry and increasingly unsettled, behaving in ways even she can’t explain. The book is described as an “elegant, razor-sharp debut about women’s ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all.”
Walking Practice by Dolki Min
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Walking Practice is about a crash-landed extraterrestrial named Mumu who practices walking on earth and hunts humans using a dating app for survival. But their existence unravels one night when they fail to kill their latest meal, spawning questions about loneliness, queer identity, and the depths humans take to conform to society. This is described as a wonderfully weird debut novel.
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
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Fans of supernatural and fantasy will love this debut novel by Pulitzer Prize finalist author Kelly Link about three dead teenagers brought back to life, who must uncover the mystery of their deaths to save their hometown. The Book of Love is an incredible achievement about loss, laughter, dread, magic, and a moving exploration of the various permutations of love.
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 14 by Tatsuki Fujimoto
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In Volume 14 of this sensational graphic novel, the adventures of Denji aka Chainsaw Man continues. Asa and Denji are going on a date to the aquarium. Asa wants to seduce Denji to turn him into a weapon, but Denji might have other ideas. Will they ruin the date with their extreme social awkwardness, or will a surprise attack by a devil be the culprit?
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