WORMEHOLE

Books read in 2026

With ❉ ratings out of five

Now reading

City of the Lost by Debbie Cassidy

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Punch Drunk Love by MOSCARETO and Okdong

Tails Gets Trolled

Tenth of December by George Saunders

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

On hold

Modelland by Tyra Banks

Morsel by Carter Keane

Finished & DNF'd

All the Cameras in My Room by Michael DeForge - ❉ ❉ ❉.5

• It's a Michael DeForge compilation and there's a zine in it, hell yeah.

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers - ❉ ❉ ❉.5

• I have spent years searching for a romantasy I do not hate. This is it.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• I put off reading this for years because I feared it would be too relatable; I was correct in that assumption.

Bird Boot Forever by Rebecca Kirby - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• The pinnacle of comics made to sell t-shirts featuring sexy goth elf women

City of Demons by Debbie Cassidy - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• Debbie Cassidy is forever my queen of het romantasy and LONG MAY SHE REIGN!!

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• A solid short novel about expectations, social systems, and divergence (NOT à la Veronica Roth)

Dogtangle by Max Huffman - ❉ ❉ ❉

• If two weirdos you see at city council meetings became allies, created a monstrosity, and walked it around town on a leash

Fox 8 by George Saunders - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• "If you want your Storys to end happy, try being niser. I awate your answer. Fox 8"

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• I will probably round this up if the rest of the series is good. Four stars so far for lesbian space necromancers.

Girl Juice by Benji Nate - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• Full of delicious colors and the type of debauchery that reminds me of my best friends

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• A biography of master painter Artemisia Gentileschi, constructed by a painter and graphic novelist; sometimes, I felt like there was a lot packed in, but I thought the story was well-told and enjoyed seeing Siciliano's master studies of Gentileschi's paintings.

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - ❉ ❉ ❉

• A short, lonely story about a girl who grows up in a world marked by the absence of men and her own feelings of otherness, which the whole thing is filtered through

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle - ❉ ❉

• I did not enjoy the writing style or the pacing and the ending didn't hit as hard as it should have. I have heard he has other better books so I will probably still try one of those.

The Magus by John Fowles - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• Watching a shitty man I hated get psychologically tortured for 600-some pages wasn't the worst use of my time.

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• Gory, postapocalyptic horror following trans and queer main characters hunting men and fighting TERFs? Yes, please. This was so good.

Mary by Nat Cassidy - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• Rating this one was really hard; it's like if Carrie was 200 pages longer, about a perimenopausal woman, and included a cult. I would've actually cut around 200 pages in the middle were I the editor (which is what I would name my annoying book blog if I had one).

Pastoralia by George Saunders - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• "Sea Oak" was the first George Saunders story I ever read and I enjoyed all of its neighbors in this volume, too. I love being eaten alive by capitalism, bootstrap individualism, and pyramid schemes and vomited back out every day!

Persuasion by Jane Austen - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• This is still my favorite Austen. I am all about an older heroine and a rekindled romance and the roasts are top tier.

Plastic by Scott Guild - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• Weird lit fic for the apocalypse (with an accompanying concept album) about a plastic girl in a tech-centered world

Spent by Alison Bechdel - ❉ ❉ ❉

• Self-deprecating autofiction featuring polyamory, lesbians, and goats

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata - ❉ ❉ ❉ .5

• I enjoyed this one slightly less than Convenience Store Woman and kinda goes in circles but Murata's always gonna dish out straightforward prose and female protagonists who question society's rules.

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad - ❉ (DNF)

• I spent more time listening to this audiobook than it took me to finish some of the other books on this list and had to DNF it. It was so bad I don't even like the first book any more.

Woke Harry Potter #1 by Ripley Rice - ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

• Incredible, perfect, full of woke gender ideology potent enough to turn any frog gay

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore - ❉ ❉ ❉.5

• A compilation of various comics by Ben Passmore; some are always going to land more than others with this type of thing but the titular story is really good and everyone should read it.