A Snake Falls to Earth

by Darcie Little Badger

This month's BitchReads pick is a coming-of-age fantasy from Lipan Apache writer and earth scientist Darcie Little Badger about Nina, an inquisitive girl who dedicates herself to translating her great-great-grandmother’s stories from the nearly lost Lipan Apache language. But there’s one translated detail that sticks out: animal people. Spirits from the “Reflection World” take the form of toads, alligators, and coyotes who can transform into people in Nina’s real world in this powerful indigenous-futurist tale about climate justice, language preservation, and interconnectedness.
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The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself

by Yrsa Daley-Ward

In her third book, unflinchingly perceptive writer and poet Yrsa Daley-Ward puts a magnifying glass to the particular despair of living online: “In a world so filled with voice, how to ever be sure of your own?” The How is a timely read that takes a hands-on approach to lifelong questions about how to be happy, how to thrive, and how to face the overwhelming nature of existence.

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

by Mayukh Sen

Mayukh Sen's first book, Taste Makers, is both a necessary addition to the food-writing canon and a lovingly crafted work of women’s history. Sen focuses his profile skills on seven underrated culinary pioneers—many self-taught—whose names we should all remember.

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

by K.M. Jackson

Rom-com sweetheart Keanu Reeves gets the literary treatment in this light and funny road-trip novel. When artist Bethany Lu hears that her all-time celeb crush is about to get married, she and her close friend True—who happens to be in love with her—head out in a cross-country bid to stop Reeves’s wedding. Popular romance author K.M. Jackson delightfully unravels the friends’ secret feelings in chapters that alternate points of view, building a tense and often sensual narrative around Lu and True’s excellent adventure.

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

by Saraciea J. Fennell

Black Honduran author Saraciea Fennell and the 14 other writers featured in the new anthology Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed are profoundly vulnerable in their articulation of diasporic identity as a journey through food, music, geography, language, and more. Wild Tongues is an affirmation of the myriad identities under the overgeneralized and whitewashed umbrella of Latinidad. Taken together, the pieces underline the common experience of these writers’ ethnicities being misunderstood, challenged, and erased.