Kacey Recommends
Read this if you're looking for non-fiction that reads like fiction. Harper shares beautiful, heartbreaking, and emotional moments from her career as an ER doctor.
content warning: domestic abuse, child death, mental illness, medical content
This Great Gatsby re-telling is haunting, thought-provoking, and filled with dazzling moments of magic.
content warnings: racism, alcohol use
Modern day Hollywood + a boarding school with a haunted past + twisty-turny Gothic horror.
content warnings: death, violence, sexual assault
A satisfying, strange, sea-floating dystopian world is at the center of this sci-fi book. The story hits all the right notes - interwoven character perspectives, suspenseful action, and myths come to life. I loved it!
Content warning: terminal illness, mental illness
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Red, White & Royal Blue in this historical romance featuring an unhappy lord and a reformed highway-robber-turned-coffee-shop-owner. I flew through the pages on this one!
Content warning: child death
Flavortown is the imaginative, delightful, nostalgia-inducing ode to Guy Fieri and Midwest food joints that you didn't know you needed. It's also a perfect break from novels and non-fiction.
A beautiful and raw collection of speculative fiction stories centering queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous characters. The stories pull you in immediately and if you're a fan of speculative fiction, make sure this is on your TBR!
content warning: violence, confinement
Emezi's debut novel is unforgettable. As a reader, you are taken on a spiritual journey along with the beings that narrate this book, and it's a perfect exploration of the fragments of our inner selves.
A beautiful, honest, and moving memoir about showing up for yourself and for your family.
Dystopian fiction at its absolute best - heartbreaking, emotional, and gut-wrenching.