Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now

I'm listening to Stephen Graham Jones's historical fiction-horror story, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter; I'm listening to Abby Jimenez's newest romance with heavy emotional underpinnings, Say You'll Remember Me; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery, the first in a series, Murder by Memory.

What are you reading, bookworms?

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01 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

A young professor determined to make her mark is inspired to pursue a project that just might earn her tenure: exploring the story of her ancestor's 1912 diary, found within a wall of a church during recent construction.

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal story of a Blackfeet man who faced death, was an outcast to his community, and became set on deadly revenge against the white men bent on destroying buffalo and the Blackfeet and other indigenous tribes.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a horror/historical fiction story with key supernatural elements. The book is hefty and runs 448 pages.

Jones is also the author of The Only Good Indians, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and many other books.

I received a prepublication audiobook edition of this title courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio and Libro.fm.

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02 Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

Samantha creates zippy social media posts for a local mustard company--and doesn't take any attitude from anyone.

Xavier is a young veterinarian who feels grumpy, exhausted, and as though he may be losing faith in humanity--but he loves the animals he cares for.

After one disastrous encounter and one magical, extended date, the two are falling for each other. But Xavier's painful past and Samantha's challenging present might make a future for the two impossible.

I received a prepublication audiobook edition of Say You'll Remember Me courtesy of Hachette Audio and Libro.fm.

Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year last year), Part of Your World, Yours Truly, The Friend Zone, and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist.

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03 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite

In Olivia Waite's slim science-fiction mystery, Dorothy wakes up...in a body that's not her own. It's uncomfortable but not unheard of. Still, Dorothy was supposed to be in stasis for years after suffering an emotional loss.

Yet even more concerning than her situation is the spaceship HMS Fairweather's current state. An electrical storm has knocked systems offline, and even worse, it seems that someone has deliberately been sabotaging the Library, where the backup for each passenger on the ship is stored.

In this outer-space-set mystery, Dorothy must figure out who's behind the destruction and how to save the ship's passengers from further danger.