Cryptid Romance Books: Bigfoot, Mothman, and Other Questionable Life Choices

Oliver Ahn cryptid romance book covers: Bigfoot, Mothman and alien romances

Monster romance is one of the biggest things in fiction right now and most people outside it have no idea. Alien warriors, minotaurs, vampires, things with too many arms. It is an enormous, extremely online, extremely well-read audience, and it is not a joke genre. The good ones are properly written. This list is the […]

We Made Women’s Basketball Inclusive. Then the Women Lost Their Jobs.

We Made Women's Basketball Inclusive. Then the Women Lost Their Jobs. by Oliver Ahn

Destiny Harper is thirty-four years old, twelve seasons into a career with the Atlanta Stampede, and she is old enough to remember when nobody came. She once played a professional game in an arena so empty she could hear a man in Section 103 unwrap a cough drop. The announced attendance was 4,800. She counted […]

I Bought an AI Boyfriend and Programmed Him to Find My G-Spot

Claire Whitmore is thirty-five years old and lives in eleven thousand square feet of beige on the Gulf coast of Florida, in a gated community with two golf courses, a guard shack, a mandatory roof tile color, and a civil war going about the pickleball court hours that is, as of this writing, still going. […]

Dark Humor Books: 14 Novels That Are Funny About Terrible Things

Dark humour is not the same as being edgy. Edgy is saying something upsetting and waiting for applause. Dark humour is finding the genuinely funny thing inside something awful, which is harder, and which usually means the writer has thought about it more carefully than anybody comfortable would. These are books that are funny about […]

Weird Books to Read When You Hate Everyone

Some days you do not want a book that restores your faith in people. You want one that agrees with you. These are books for that mood. Strange, misanthropic, funny in a way that does not require you to like anybody. Nobody in them is going to learn a valuable lesson about community. Weird books […]

Books With Crazy Titles That Are Actually Good

Oliver Ahn book covers under the heading Books With Crazy Titles That Are Actually Good

A ridiculous title is a promise. It says: I know exactly what I am, I am not going to pretend otherwise, and you already know whether you want this. Most books are too polite to do that. They go with something atmospheric and vague and hope you pick it up anyway. The books below did […]