Loved Come and Get It for weaponizing awkwardness into critique? Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams turns messy choices into biting brilliance.

If you loved watching Kiley Reid's characters weaponize awkwardness into social critique, Candice Carty-Williams delivers that same combustible mix of cringe-comedy and razor-sharp observation. Queenie follows a Jamaican-British journalist whose messy romantic choices and workplace microaggressions become a full-body interrogation of what it costs to exist in spaces that were never designed for you. Like Reid, Carty-Williams turns financial precarity and bad decisions into fuel for biting humor that never lets institutions—or her protagonist—off the hook.

The unfiltered group chats, the questionable men, the code-switching exhaustion—this is that same eavesdropping intimacy Reid perfected, transplanted to South London with equal parts warmth and acid. Economic anxiety breeds resentment; identity becomes performance; nobody's the hero.

If you're ready for another flawed Black millennial making spectacularly bad choices in brilliant prose, this is your next obsession.