I took a cue from Maris Kreizman and Drew Broussard earlier today and offered one book recommendation per “like” on a Bluesky thread. For posterity, here are the 50 books I ended up suggesting…

1. Jean Ray (translated by Scott Nicolay), Cruise of Shadows
2. Margaret Killjoy, The Sapling Cage
3. John Ganz, When the Clock Broke
4. Vincent O. Carter, Bern Book
5. Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
6. Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson, Parasocial
7. Jeet Heer, In Love With Art
8. Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
9. Kathe Koja, The Cipher
10. Phil Christman, How to Be Normal
11. Morgan Jerkins, This Will Be My Undoing
12. Casey Plett, On Community
13. Laird Hunt, The Exquisite
14. Gavin James Bower, Claude Cahun
15. A.V. Marraccini, We the Parasites
16. John Langan, The Fisherman
17. Carola Dibbell, The Only Ones
18. Jared Pechaček, The West Passage
19. Geeta Dayal, Another Green World
20. Jason Diamond, The Sprawl
21. Duncan B. Barlow, The City, Awake
22. Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
23. Leila Taylor, Darkly
24. Joel Lane, The Anniversary of Never
25. Chantal Montellier (translated by Geoffrey Brock), Social Fiction
26. Paul Auster, Leviathan
27. Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, Friday
28. Nicola Griffith, Spear
29. Rebecca Campbell, The Talosite
30. Premee Mohamed, The Butcher of the Forest
31. Arthur Machen, N
32. Juliet Jacques, Trans
33. Quan Barry, We Ride Upon Sticks
34. Caroline Bergvall, Drift
35. Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
36. Deborah Levy, Billy & Girl
37. Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
38. Victor LaValle, Big Machine
39. John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night
40. Ari M. Brostoff, Missing Time
41. Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
42. Anne Garreta (translated by Emma Ramadan), Sphinx
43. Percival Everett, Assumption
44. Matthew Specktor, Always Crashing in the Same Car
45. Erika T. Wurth, You Who Enter Here
46. Juan Martinez, Extended Stay
47. Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie
48. Olúfhemi O Táíwò, Elite Capture
49. David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine
50. James Bridle, New Dark Age