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Science Fiction

Staff Top 5s of 2025: Jurgen, Jilles, Simone, and Renata

Hooray! It's time for our favorite reads of the year! We love putting these posts together, so grab a hot beverage of your choice, find a comfy couch or chair or nook to settle into, and be ready to explode your TBR with all these scrumptious personal recommendations. These are the best [...]

Book Review: Termination Shock

Termination Shock - Neil StephensonNeal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, [...]

ABC Bestsellers – September 2025

by Damla September was a month for big and exciting names when it comes to publishing. Dan Brown's latest book in the thrilling Robert Langdon series, The Secret of Secrets, has hit the shelves after a long hiatus. Ian McEwan has also released a new book this month, called What [...]

Cozy Books for Fall

By Naomi It feels like it's been here for a while, but today it is official: fall has begun! 'Tis the season to get cozy on your couch, wrapped up in a blanket, with a cup of tea at your elbow and a good book in your hands. You can listen [...]

ABC Bestsellers – August 2025

By Sophie It will come as no surprise that the biggest bestseller of August, despite it going on sale only on 26 August, was Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. We have 4 editions in our assortment, but that U.S. deluxe limited edition is going fastest - and no wonder, with [...]

Book Review: Saga

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery [...]

ABC Bestsellers – July 2025

by Sophie Welcome to the middle of the summer, up here in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Like last month, escapism reigns supreme, with lots of Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy titles making a (re)appearance - local author Rachel Lynn Solomon's What Happens in Amsterdam is just flying off the shelf in [...]

Space is Gay* (*LGBTQIA+) – part 2

By Else Else got so enthusiastic about this theme that she created a list that was way too long, but in the end she did manage to whittle it down to 12 very interesting titles. Yesterday we presented 4 of those 12, and today we present the other 8. If you [...]

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