Liz Vaughan

I love books, which is why I’m pursuing a career in writing and publishing. I’m passionate about a variety of genres, authors, and topics, but I especially love speculative, weird, and fantastical fiction. Here, you can find lists of what I’ve been reading the past few years, with my reviews linked where applicable. If we share any titles, feel free to let me know what you thought about them, too!

2026 Reads (So Far)

  • The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  • The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
  • King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
  • Hazelthorn by CG Drews
  • This Is The Year by Gloria Muñoz
  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  • We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams

2025 Reads

  • Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • Motheater by Linda H. Codega
  • The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
  • Hell of A Book by Jason Mott
  • She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
  • House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
  • Jumping Through Hoops by Betsy Golden Kellem
  • Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
  • The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • Leech by Hiron Ennes
  • Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
  • Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
  • The Best American SF/F of 2019, edited by Carmen Maria Machado and John Joseph Adams
  • Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark
  • The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
  • When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
  • Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

2024 Reads

  • What Is Gender Nihilism?: A Reader, Contagion Press
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
  • Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
  • The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Babel by R.F. Kuang
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
  • Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
  • Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
  • How to Find A Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok
  • Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
  • A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
  • How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin