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ten books to know me
thank you for the tag @mblematic i sat down to do this IMMEDIATELY i’ve maybe never been so excited
the secret history by donna tartt
well what do i even say about this. if you know you know. this is my favorite book ever! nothing tops it!
slow days, fast company by eve babitz
reading this book for the first time at 22 when i had just moved to LA and really started doing drugs and fucking bad actors...i cannot explain it. eve is like. the whole reason i’m a writer now still -- i stopped writing in college (too busy doing drugs and fucking bad musicians at that time) and this book inspired me to start back up and actually work hard at it. thank god.
and i do not forgive you by amber sparks
THE short story collection that made me realize i could write about whatever i felt like writing about. i’ve taken class with amber and she’s just incredible. wildly talented, excellent teacher, taught me everything i know about editing!
modern madness: an owner’s manual by terri cheney
you could insert any of terri’s books here, but i do have such a soft spot for modern madness. terri was one of the first people to really talk to me about bipolar disorder, and to help me understand what was happening to me and how to get help. her memoirs are devastating, but she’s proof of the strength people can have in the face of severe mental illness.
leaving the atocha station by ben lerner
this book has writing that i just want to bathe in. i don’t hardly ever read books by men, but ben lerner is a GENIUS. the macarthur fellowship thinks so too!
the disreputable history of frankie landau-banks by e.l. lockhart
formative formative formative. this is where i learned to love words and wordplay. also where i discovered p.g. wodehouse! horizons: broadened.
the princess diaries by meg cabot
was this series sex ed for anyone else? it was sex ed for me. i used to sneak into the high school library and check these books out when i was in like 7th grade. truly so important everybody say thank you meg cabot (thank you meg cabot!!)
the physics of sorrow by georgi gospodinov, trans. angela rodel
this book really got me into translations! i love love love it. it’s so interesting to see literature from other places, and this was the first book i read outside of school that wasn’t originally in english. so valuable and set me on quite the journey (death and the penguin i’m looking at u)
howl’s moving castle by dianna wynne jones
i think this might be my most re-read book? i try to read it every year during scorpio season, because it just has That Vibe to me. it never gets old!
rules for saying goodbye by katherine taylor
i...don’t know where to begin with this book. katherine taught me how to burn bridges with my writing and not give a fuck at all. i wish i could describe katherine, because she is someone i so adore, but she is beyond words. anyway, the protagonist of rfsg is also named kate taylor. that’s probably all i really need to say. what a woman.
honorable mention: looking for alaska by john green
HOW did i manage to stay alive after reading this book.....the damage that was done...........john green u owe my parents therapy money babe!
OOPS I FORGOT TO TAG! tagging @pancakehouse @colgatebluemintygel @moongays @thebloatedfrog @queemes @blackberry-sunset @pinklume and anyone else who wants to do it! i LOVE to see what books shaped people! what a thrill!
#the takeaway from this is that the people i love#have also really shaped me with their writing#i could put my aunt on here too but i don't want to doxx myself#but the moment when my aunt started asking ME to read HER short stories#instead of just the other way aroudn#that was when i Knew#so: another formative one#god i could have done like 20 books#book recs by em#tag game#molly tag
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I feel like I’ve been able to read so many speculative fiction wlw books in the past few years that I get a little frustrated when ppl complain that wlw relationships are always sidelined in stories. So I’m just gonna make a list of the ones I’ve completed, for posterity. There are so many interesting books out there and all of these deserve more attention.
To reiterate, this is speculative fiction (sci-if/fantasy) where the primary relationship is wlw.
Ash: Chinese and fae influenced retelling of Cinderella (+Huntress, a prequel)
A Restless Truth: historical magical murder mystery set on a Titanic sister-ship. This is the second book in a series but my favorite so far
Burning Roses: European fairy-tale/Chinese legend mashup featuring older ladies
Cinderella is Dead: YA fairy tale dystopia
Crier’s War: human x android enemies to lovers political intrigue
Even Though I Knew the End: supernatural detective noir, super quick and super fun
Gearbreakers: enemies-to-lovers with mecha
In the Vanisher’s Palace: Viet influenced Beauty and the Beast where the Beast is a dragon lady
Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom: middle school age mythological fantasy adventure, I wish I had this growing up
Labyrinth Lost: bruja fantasy underworld adventure
Last to Leave the Room: WFH doppleganger horror + toxic coworkers who hate each other (they really don’t)
Legends and Lattes: Simple and sweet DND inspired cafe AU
Once and Future: King Arthur but in space with ladies. Wish this one had been poly
Roots of Chaos series: high fantasy with dragons and so many queers.
Strictly No Heroics: the struggles of villain henchmen
The Abyss Surrounds us/The Edge of the Abyss: kaiju pirates, enemies to lovers
The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy: desi epic fantasy, enemies to lovers
Spear: Arthurian sapphics
Someone You Can Build a Nest In: shapeshifting monster falls for a monster hunter
The Locked Tomb: wlw necromancers in space. Enemies to ???
The Luminous Dead: spelunking thriller set on another planet—this one is fucky everyone should read it
The Memory Librarian: short stories set in Janelle Monae’s android world
The Mimicking of Known Successes: detective noir set on Jupiter—ex-lovers reunited by circumstance
The Red Scholar’s Wake: space pirates, enemies to lovers, human x spaceship
The Salvation Gambit: con-artists breaking out of a sentient prison-world ship
The Space Between Worlds: inter dimensional corporate exploitation, handler x agent mutual pining, this one is so underappreciated
The Witch and the Vampire: YA vampire x vampire hunter
This is How You Lose the Time War: everyone knows this one
We Set the Dark on Fire: YA Latine political intrigue, school rivals to lovers
If you have any others please add, I’m always looking to grow my reading list
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finally Finally got around to finishing female masculinity by jack halberstam. super interesting read, really loved it. the fact that it was published in the 90s is pretty cool also cause u get to see how butchness was perceived and conceptualized 20+ years ago, and then examine what’s changed since then and what’s stayed the same. was surprised by how many issues that plague current discussions around lesbianism/butchness were actually around back then too! the more things change the more they stay the same lol
#so many texts referenced in the notes that i wanna read now…augh#would love to read more contemporary texts on butchness tho to see what’s being said outside of like. social media tho lol#so if anyone’s got recs for those i’d be glad for em! cause obviously everything referenced in this book is old too#dick punches
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Novels for Black History Month (Refreshed)
Titles, authors, and genres below the cut! Favourites are starred!
YA:
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas*
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas*
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant*
Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall
Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson
Mystery/Thriller:
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby*
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Magic Realism:
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin*
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Historical:
Deacon King Kong by James McBride*
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill*
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan*
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan*
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson*
The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (May 2021)
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé*
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe*
Contemporary:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
New People by Danzy Senna
Swing Time by Zadie Smith*
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson*
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams*
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson*
#Black History Month#book recommendations#redid the grid to add some new favourites!#rec 'em all but * are five-star faves
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YOU DO BOOK RECS????
well whenever ur free, can u give some romantasy of sorts? or dark academia is alright
all ages is alright, ya aswell-
Romantasy and dark academia ooh okayyy.
Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross
Prison Healer - Lynette Noni
Acotar - Sarah J. Mass
The Shadows Between Us - Tricia Levenseller
The Kinder Posion - Natalie Mae
The Queen's Rising - Rebecca Ross
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Edgewood - Kristen Ciccarelli
Powerless - Lauren Roberts
let me know if these are any good!! <3
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spicy book recs?
alright let's see
Sierra Simone writes theee best erotic romance, some of my faves include:
The New Camelot trilogy. Kinky King Arthur--very literally a modern King Arthur retelling in which King Arthur is [drumroll] Maxen Ashley "Ash" Colchester, president, erstwhile war hero, and absolute panty dropper, Lancelot his VP Embry Lance (never forget his middle name is Lance) Moore, my favorite romance character ever, and his first lady is Greer Galloway, the girl who heard a prophecy that was like "please don't kiss anyone" and went "okay I'll kiss everyone". MMF, kinky, angsty, dramatic.
Thornchapel. Quartet about six friends who accidentally awoke a gothic looming horror thing as kids and then continue to awake it as adults with kinky sex rituals. Kinda like The Secret History x Picnic at Hanging Rock x Brideshead Revisited with a dash of occult. Two core romances, one is MMF (childhood friends to enemies to lovers and the girl they both love) and one is FF. TW for incest(?). Very kinky, much group sex and sharing occurs.
Priest. One of her more.... approachable books, about a Catholic priest who falls for a woman who tells him all the shit she's done in confession. Also kinky.
Salt Kiss. Just out, a spinoff from New Camelot that retells Tristan and Isolde but with Tristan as a bodyguard and Mark as his boss who he falls in love with before he meets Isolde, who he promptly also falls in love with. Salt in the Wound is a novella that should be read first, ab out Mark and Isolde. Kinky, queer, intense.
Grace Callaway writes really fun historical romances that lean towards the more erotic. Usually, there's a girl who boldly ventures into danger, and a hero who's like "my god I find her brash impulsiveness compelling, I must eat her out and tell her she's bad".
I really love her Lady Charlotte's Society of Sirens series, which is like, Charlie's Angels but Victorian.
Olivia and the Masked Duke. Age gap D/s romance, bratty heroine paired with a hero who's like "I'm your dad's friend, I can't do this"... but she's obsessed after seeing him spank another woman, so she's pretty determined to make it happen.
Pippa and the Prince of Secrets. Childhood sweethearts reunite after her shitty husband dies. Hero is scarred and runs a band of child spies (I died). They're both really into exhibition and ye olde sex swing.
Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl. Feisty diamond of the season girl ends up in a marriage of convenience with a stern earl. Both of them are basically spies undercover, but neither of them knows lol. She's very bratty with him.
Glory and the Master of Shadows. Heroine gets mentored in badassery by the hero, who's desperately trying to resist her because he's Tainted and she's Fresh and Innocent. At one point he eats her out against the wall while her parents are sleeping with the door open down the hall.
You want a mafia romance? Try Mila Finelli. Her Kings of Italy series kicks off with Mafia Mistress & Mafia Darling, a duet about a girl who is kidnapped to marry this mafioso's son, but the dad like "nah, I want you, be my mistress". My favorite in the series is Mafia Madman, which is about a fucking lunatic blowing up a bar to kidnap the heroine for Revenge. He chains her to his bed and they have an enemies to lovers situation because she keeps telling him he ain't shit and he's like "sadly I am entranced by her". Mafia Target is an M/M assassin/target book, most excellent.
In terms of "contemporary sex club" books, I'd recommend The Salacious Players Club, which is about a group of friends who start a sex club (with two additional installments about the most noteworthy patrons of the club). Each book deals with a different kink--praise kink with an age gap, femdom, voyeurism, "we think I'm a cuck but actually me and my wife and my best friend are just mutually in love with each other", daddy kink, etc.
Joanna Shupe (who is also Mila Finelli) writes pretty hot historicals. I would recommend especially
My Dirty Duke. Victorian novella, age gap, heroine falls for her dad's best friend and he takes sexy old timey pics of her.
Sold to the Duke. Heroine enters an auction for her virginity to save her sister from destitution, gets bought by her dead brother's best friend who's like "I'm not going to take what I bought" and she's like "oh yes you are dude.
Her Uptown Girls trilogy is about three sisters who bop around Gilded Age NYC, getting into trouble with 1) dad's lawyer 2) casino owner attempting to ruin dad because revenge 3) powerful gangster. Very hot and very fun.
Fifth Avenue Rebels is my favorite series by her. It starts off with a house party in Newport and then continues into all the drama after. Recommending reading in order, they're all good, and they lead up to one of my favorites, The Duke Gets Even, about the uptight duke and wild child heiress who've been circling each other for the previous books. Very hot, and they both enjoy rough sex.
S.M. LaViolette (who is Minerva Spencer) writes hot historicals. I just finished her Seducers trilogy, which follows three sex workers/former sex workers from the same brothel as they meet people and fall in love with much drama and high stakes. Hot and romantic as fuck. TW: all of the books feature trauma in the past, but little to none is on the page
Paranormals? Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark, which is full of vampires, werewolves, witches, and everything else falling in love and having lots of sex across the world. Long running and pretty violent, so check your TWs, especially for the older ones.
Passion by Lisa Valdez is a really wild erotic historical romance with a hero and heroine who start fucking as soon as they meet in the first chapter. Behind a screen the first go. She has a magic vagina that his massive cock can fit into as a miracle basically.
I mean... if you're willing to go, uh, bold as fuck, Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners is very erotic. Everyone is polyamorous, everyone is bi, it kicks off with a British editor visiting a novelist to work with her, and oops, she's a dominatrix. The central three characters are that dominatrix, Nora, her long time on again/off again lover/dom Soren, who is...a Catholic priest with a sadism fetish... and Kingsley, who owns this kink club Soren and Nora are respectively the #1 and #2 top dogs at. There is a LOT of sadomasochism in this series, a lot of kinky shit, a lot of angst, dubcon and noncon. There's also... some shit I don't think would be written today, like a good amount of underage sex, severely morally questionable relationships, and I don't loooove some of the dynamics written (Kingsley and his long-term partner Juliette make me question much). The writing is beautiful, the characters and dynamics are fascinating, but it's definitely something you should dig into before reading.
But I can't lie, Nora, Soren, and Kingsley have a spellbinding dynamic. It's fucked, but it compels me so. I will add, there were 8 original books (not standalones) and then she revived the series years later. Stop at the first 8 (and their assorted companion novellas and short stories).
#this is some of 'em but if it's not open door at least i don't intentionally read it so#all of my reads are probs spicy for someone lol#book recs#romance novel blogging
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also i've been thinking bc i've been struggling to read warhammer books recently but it might just be because i literally only read horus heresy bc i don't have nearly the same problem with necron books so i might just start reading books *actually set in 40k(!!!)* like some kind of warhammer fan... this is partially a recommendations-asking-post and partially me just letting you know not to call the fire brigade if i start posting about ciaphas cain one of these days
#don't worry about putting gaunts ghosts in the replies ik it's good i've already written em down#what i'm asking for is your weird obscure recs of random warhammer books that left you reeling#gimme any novella that left you with more questions than answers. i want rollercoaster rides and tomes that piss people off#& i want above all bad books with strange lore explained badly#also i AM going to read the rest of the fabius bile books eventually I promise#it's only october I wanna see if I can double my book reading goal this year
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got tagged by @librarycards for a book rec list. ærs covered Q2'23; i'm just gonna do my faves from the first half of the year!
i've been reading a different crop of books since i made last year's list--i've taken a big dive back into sf, especially books by cj cherryh, as well as indie horror (that's... well, you'll find out when you look at the list).
again, they're ordered by when i read them. here we go!!!
Shmutz, Felicia Berliner (contemporary fiction, young hasidic woman comes of age, tries to find a husband, and gets obsessed with porn)
Father of Lies, Brian Evenson (psychological horror centering on a mormon religious leader. if you like books that make you feel gross and bad, this one's for you)
Any Other City, Hazel Jane Plante (fictional memoir of a trans musician. the book is split between her life right before she comes out, and then decades later when she's an established musician)
Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch (not even sure how to describe this one. fat, lapsed catholic, conscientous objector Louis Sachetti is imprisoned for refusing to become a US soldier and is sent to a prison where the (mostly black) inmates are being injected with experimental drugs. the author is gay and there's a lot of parallels to hiv/aids despite this being written in '68)
The World Cannot Give, Tara Isabella Burton (what if the secret history was catholic lesbians)
Amygdalatropolis, B.R. Yeager (another "if you like gross books" rec. i don't even know if i liked this one, but it was certainly interesting. chronicles the existence of a 4chan NEET)
Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957 french experientalism, i read this bc dennis cooper referenced it in an interview. believing his wife to be cheating on him, the narrator spies on her through a jalousie window, recording everything in his frame of vision that he can see. v interesting stylistically and could also rly benefit from a postcolonial reading)
The Pride of Chanur, CJ Cherryh (i read the entire trilogy pictured above, plus the first two books of her Foreigner series. it's basically a courtly fantasy/first contact mashup in space, really well developed alien cultures with lots of factions among them. tons of fun)
Frisk, Dennis Cooper (third "if you like gross extremist fiction" on here. this is my fave cooper after The Sluts and the most thematically resonant. if you haven't read the sluts i'd rec starting there. if i was a prof i would assign them together or even do this in a short course if there wasn't time for a longer book)
tagging @thebestestbat @tsubakiscarlet @danishprince @dovebeast @stackslip @eraserheadcrybaby @interstellarhitchhiker @kollapstradixionales @papika & would be happy to see book rec lists of anyone else!! fiction or non fiction or anything else idc whatever you're into ^_^
#currently reading#<- this is my tag for it tho i have finished all of them#catching up on my Tag posts as u can see from the last post as well#also sorry if anyone i've tagged does not have books feel free to make a rec list of [any other type of media] i love to see em & its fun t#do
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long fucking rant about the joy of reading a good book. (not at all accurate title)
I just finished reading Felidae! incredible book I really love the story and- okay bear with me. I got the book a few years back because my mom mentioned reading it when she was younger. I told her I'd want to read it as well and she went through the painstaking process of finding it (which was not easy because the Author is a right fucking prick so his books aren't really sold anymore.)
so we found it on ebay eventually.( god knows I am not givin that author my money) I left it alone for a few years, had other shit to read and actually did not read much at all during that time...
right fast forward I decide I should read it because one of my terrible habits is starting thousands of things at once and never really finishing any of em. SO AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING! I read the first 3 pages or so n talked to my mom and brother about it shortly, saying I liked the way it was written, the characters, the exposition, etc etc- AND at the mention of the plot my brother goes "oh! I've heard of that! it's the book that some german studio made into that horrifying animated movie adaptation!" AND IT ALL CAME CRASHING DOWN
because I remember what he meant because you KNOW tiny me with unrestricted internet access had seen some clips of the gory , disturbing cat-movie before! and you know what? I was unfortunate (or maybe fortunate , seeing how I'm a massive horror fan now) enough to watch "Watership down" as a kid so when I saw Felidae being ranked even HIGHER than that movie in those "ooh horrofying disturbing kids movieees ooh" lists, I swore I'd never watch it..
and here we are, I read that boook so fast and it is actually incredibly entertaining (i also just have never read a "krimi" before so I definitely have a high appreciation for the genre now)
I am incredibly excited to watch the movie. JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH a 2D animated thriller-detective cat movie with horrorfying scenes and absurd amounts of gore??? COUNT ME IN
TL:DR : I realize that reading is fun if you actually have a good book to read and obsess over the story of a cat solving a series of cat murders
#I hate that this happens so often#where I find a great book or show and then the creator/author suck massive balls#looking at you jk rowling#either way I should read more good book. I had a lot of fun reading this one I should really read more Krimis#if anyone's got horror / thriller book recs feel free to throw em at me#please no stephen king tho I dislike how he writes (still forcing myself to read Cujo tho)#this is BY FAR the most incoerrent of my rambles#and since this is tumblr and I doubt I have anyone who wnat to read trough all of this#I am very much going to neglect checking my LRS in this#dyslexia is kicking my ass and today it is WINNING#pitskederdoenerhaendler#just. if kid me saw that I am actively deciding to watch this movie rn they would take me by the shoulders and shake me violently#I fuckiiiinggg love good books. I'll either continue reading Moby Dick where I left off or his majesties dragon (2) where I left of#you see I have a ton of started boosk#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I actually have to rewatch Skinamarink so I can rant about it here
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Ok but serious question tho. Why aren't book girlfriends a thing? You have those book boyfriends right like Carden and Aaron and etc etc. I need me books with Book. Women.
#its not a want its a need#book girlfriends#women#🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️#bookblr#booklr#if you guys have any recs plis send em
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My admiration for Virginia Woolf has increased, and I am more than ever saddened by the example of her death. And I am affected by the other lives DeSalvo shows with such sensitivity: the silent ones, powerless to help, sitting with their sponges at the far end of the tub. Less gifted, less overtly self-destructive women than their brilliant relative, they yet found the old female ways of keeping themselves from living life. Shutting down behind self-pity and secret shame; sacrificing themselves to childish mothers and selfish men; vaguely yearning, self-medicating; painting someone else's pictures; obediently tracing the magic circle, afraid, entranced. There are so many different ways to drown.
Kennedy Fraser
#THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO DROWN#this essay is one of the best essays i've ever read#and i am about to be insufferable#bc i will NOT stop talking about it#book recs by em#virginia woolf#louise desalvo#kennedy fraser
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Okay here is the final list of all the books I’ve finished this year! (since it doesn’t look like I’m going to get anything finished or even started this week.)
I tend to not finish things if I’m not enjoying them (two exceptions on this list because sometimes I am spiteful), so I liked all of these—but the ones in bold are those I particularly loved (I only bolded one per series or it would just be a wall of The Murderbot Diaries lol).
LGBT+ books read: 48
wlw books read: 22
trans/nb books: 17
I’m very happy with my year in reading. I hit my new year’s goal of 52 books finished. And I read a lot of things that I really fucking loved. Lots of robots. LOTS of scifi/fantasy sapphics which I am SO happy about. Some good horror, some good fucky “romances”. A lot of things written in response to the Trump era or written during 2020 lockdown.
I also enjoyed partaking in online book fandom for the first time in possibly ever! Especially Murderbot fandom, which is very active and creative and lovely.
(If you followed me for my bookblogging, thank you for enduring my Thai BL vroom vroom omegaverse brainrot. It will not be stopping anytime soon.)
For 2024, I am going to keep my goal at 52 books and save any extra time I have for rereading old things.
Anyways the list, for posterity:
After Midnight: A History of Independent India by Meghaa Gupta
The Old Place by Bobby Finger
Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae
Women and Girls With Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sarah Hendrickx
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley
Love after the End edited by Joshua Whitehead
Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Network Effect by Martha Wells
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
Flux by Jinwoo Chong
Burning Roses by S. L. Huang
In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
The Witch King by Martha Wells
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Galveston’s Maceo Family Empire by T. Nicole Boatman et al
Blood Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Galveston’s Red Light District: A History of the Line by Kimber Fountain
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Linghun by Ai Jiang
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie
Spear by Nicola Griffith
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starking
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders
A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Iona Datt Sharma & Katherine Fabian
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele
#if you are curious about any of these or are looking for 2024 recs please feel free to comment or shoot me an ask!#books#bookblr#em post#new years
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i really want to read more this year actually
#i miss reading!!!! only problem is idk where to start lol#i have one book i wanna finish but#if anyone has book recs i'd love to hear em#idk what i like it's been a while so i'll take anything lmao#vex rambles
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I recommend An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows! It's portal fantasy for grownups, where "for grownups" means hopepunk not grimdark. Amazing queer found family, diverse queer-normative worldbuilding, and beautiful, moving prose. Foz Meadows also wrote A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, which I highly recommend as well. It has a sequel coming out soon too!
oooh i’m always here for found family…. i haven’t heard of these before but i’ll check them out, ty!!!
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Hello! I’ve been tagged by @citrusgothic to share nine of my favorite books! so, in no particular order:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Maurice by E.M. Forster
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I’m no-pressure tagging @blackcapez and @papenathys but if anybody else sees this and wants to do it go ahead!! consider urself tagged :)
#if anyone wants to talk ANY of these my dms r so open#the secret history#these violent delights#pride and prejudice#the great gatsby#red white and royal blue#carry on rainbow rowell#maurice em forster#the book thief#les mis#book recs
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Here are the book recs for @seaveysoceaneyes :)
Icebreaker - Hannah grace
Spanish Love deception - Elena Armas
Check & Mate - Ali Hazelwood
The Deal - Elle Kennedy
Better Than the Movies - Lynn Painter
Happy Place - Emily Henry
Heart Bones - Colleen Hoover
Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
What happens after Midnight - K. L. Wather
there are a mix of both YA and new adult books in there.
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