MJ Anthony's 3 favorite reads in 2025

A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024.

While hiking, Rhi discovers four young women living wild and guarded
by wolves. The girls tell her that they are lost princesses
raised by a man called Mother.

Shocked, Rhi takes them to hospital, all the while haunted by
memories of her family trauma. Surely, the girls have been abducted,
misled or abused? Yet she can see a bond between them that blurs
fantasy and reality.

As media hysteria surrounding the young women grows, Rhi comes
to a decision that will change all of their lives forever.



An unflinching and ambitious novel… show more.

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals - both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF.

Please, Do Not Touch This Exhibit is Jen Campbell's second collection, and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her first book-length collection, The Girl Aquarium (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019 and was a semifinalist for the Goodreads… show more.

When Lorali Wynmar oversees the last blessing of Athera’s most wanted criminal before he is hung from the gallows, she receives a surprising command from a dark deity: save him. With the noose tightening around his neck, she invokes the forgotten rite of a gallows marriage to free him from his fate.For the next year, Eldric Lorecaster is now bound to the enigmatic high cleric that saved him. Forced to live together under the constraints of their bond, the pair forge a tentative and unlikely friendship. When their pasts collide, they must choose if they will follow their predestined-paths or… show more.