Brandon O’Brien 64 pages Interstellar Flight Press (2021)
Tl;dr summary: Eldritch horror meets pop culture meets Blackness meets black humor, all mixed together and with line breaks
Read this if you like: Elwin Cotman, speculative poetry, hip hop culture
Corey McCullough 326 pages 2018 (Self-published)
Read this if you like: The Chronicles of Narnia, Dragonlance, Wheel of Time
tl;dr summary: Western PA teenager is pulled into a magical alternate dimension in a good-vs-evil-quest meets coming-of-age adventure.
V. Castro 141 pages Creature Publishing (2021)
Tl;dr summary: Teenage girl gets possessed by sin-eating Aztec goddess
Read this if you like: Mesoamerican mythology, folk tales and fairy tales, spiritual horror
Toshikazu Kawaguchi 272 pages Hanover Square Press (2019)
Tl;dr summary: Intersecting stories of the employees and patrons of a café with a time travel seat.
Read this if you like: Haruki Murakami, Twin Peaks, magical realism
Elwin Cotman 89 pages Nomadic Press (2023)
Read this if you like: mythic fantasy, punk poetry, Haruki Murakami tl;dr summary: Combination poetry collection and story about a galaxy-traveling wizard
Virginia Woolf 329 pages Mariner Books (1928)
Read this if you like: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, magical realism, literary satire
tl;dr summary: 16th-century aristocratic English teenager grows up into a 19th-century British woman and has many adventures along the way.
Roberto Bolaño 607 pages Vintage Español (1998)
Read this if you like: David Foster Wallace, Jack Kerouac, Mexican culture and literature
Tl;dr summary: Two young Mexican poets go on a road trip that turns into a 20-year flight around the world.
Multiple authors (anthology) 302 pages Air and Nothingness Press (2022)
Read this if you like: Dr. Who, non-humanoid aliens, speculative short fiction
tl;dr summary: Interdimensional librarian has adventures, loans books, preserves knowledge across the multiverse.
See the book on the Air and Nothingness Press website
Vanessa MacLaren-Wray 138 pages Paper Angel Press (2020)
Read this if you like: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdez, Isaac Asimov, Vernor Vinge
tl;dr summary: Alien poet/trust fund child adopts an injured human and manages not to kill her in his attempts to help her.
F. G. Haghenbeck 282 pages Oceano (2018)
Read this if you like: Magical realism, Mexican culture, speculative non-fiction
tl;dr summary: Frida Kahlo’s life story, mostly.
