Sirens was born from a love for the stories that inspire us–inspire us to stay hopeful, to persevere, to revolutionize, to care for ourselves, and to care for each other. Being a part of the Sirens community means engaging meaningfully with those stories, and that goes for our team as well!
As we look toward Sirens in 2026, the team wants to share some of their recent reads. Click on the titles below to shop them through our Bookshop.org store, which not only supports Sirens, but means you don’t have to buy your books through That Other Place.
How many of these have you read already? Join us on the Sirens Discord to let us know your thoughts, share your favorite recent read, or find your next one!
Faved by Jen Coster: Metal from Heaven by August Clark
For fans of The Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth: a bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy set in a glittering world transformed by industrial change–and simmering class warfare.
Faved by Cedar Goto: The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation.
Faved by Cedar Goto: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Cuckoo is a relentless and visceral horror about a group of queer kids trying to survive the conversion camp from hell.
Faved by Ren Iwamoto: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
An action-packed fantasy featuring a disabled woman’s quest to kill a god.
Faved by Manda Lewis: And the Mighty Will Fall by K.B. Wagers
Die Hard meets A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this nail-biting, action-filled story that’s as much about found family as it is about survival.
Faved by Erynn Moss: The Watsons by Jane Austen
Austen’s mysteriously abandoned partial manuscript, believed begun in 1803, begins a novel on, as ever with Austen, marriage, class, and women’s choices.
Faved by Sharina Pratt: One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
A dark, lush gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom.
Faved by Jennifer Shimada: Babel by R.F. Kuang
A fantastical dark academia novel set in an alternate history 1830s Oxford.
Faved by Amy Tenbrink: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
A hustling, bustling, striving, vibrant urban fantasy–and an explicit rejection of Lovecraftian racism—blending culture, identity, myth, and magic in contemporary New York City.
Faved by Hallie Tibbetts: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
A genre-bending Africanfuturist novel that is part-ghost story, part-dystopia, part-cyberbunk and all a brilliant dissection of motherhood, memory, and autonomy.