Recs if you like Monday's Not Coming...

Book covers with typography oriented in non-standard alignments, instead of the typical horizontal + left to right text alignment. Or: graphic design is my passion, and today we are learning about text paths 🙂‍↕️. This is an immensely silly List, and always open to suggestions—vertical text, circular, upside down, anything goes!

Combo of new and older fiction written by talented Black and African writers ranging from adult to YA to middle grade. Thriller, fantasy, literary fiction and everything in between!

Feel free to make suggestions!

Inspired by theaisreading and my love for teenage detectives and crime stories, I need a list which collects them all. Whether it’s missing secrets or suspicious suspects, these young, sometimes unintentional, detectives are always one step ahead and rarely play by the rules. From cozy to high stake. We don't judge. Feel free to recommend books I've missed and you like!

DJ, play the bridge of I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas 🗓️ these books all have, you guessed it, the days of the week in the title

please, as always, give me any and all suggestions you have

A list of Banned or Censored books (from around the world) that I want to read and form my own opinions about...

Do you, like me, often find yourself looking at a book cover thinking, "Y'all are doing waaay too much." Why are book covers so dang extra nowadays? Here are some books that appeal to me simply because they have covers that don't look like a 19 year old with Photoshop barfed a bunch of design elements on a book and called it a day. Some I've read, some are on the TBR. And to all the authors and publishers out there, K.I.S.S.

A curated collection of stories told through cracks, mirrors, and shifting truths. These narrators bend memory, distort reality, and reshape the world to fit their own needs. Some lie with intention, others with fear, and some simply because the truth is too heavy to hold. These are the books that linger. The ones that make you question what you know. The ones you leave and don’t really know what just happened.

If you’re here, like me you might be tired of basically seeing the same plots and storylines over and over. This is a list of ones I’ve enjoyed that are all (mostly) different from each other*. Main thing in common might be the author.

*Can’t guarantee there aren’t similar types of twists/reveals lol.

These are some books to better understand the people and culture of our nation’s capital. Washingtonians are so much more than the harmful stereotypes the media perpetuates. If you have any suggestions, whether fiction or nonfiction, please leave a comment!

teenagers solving mysteries ! (if it's a series, only the first one is added)

books that make you feel like you’re on drugs, while also feeling like you should be taking drugs to properaly appreciate the book or the “wtf is going on” books

Thrillers & mysteries that will keep you guessing until the end

Have you ever read a story and realized some things didn't add up?

Perhaps your narrator has a distorted reality due to trauma or mental illness?

Maybe your narrator omits certain things to paint a different picture?

Possibly your narrator doesn't understand key things, and it leads to varying meanings?

Well, if you enjoy stories like that, you're in luck, because here are some of the best stories with unreliable narrators.

bitch i did not realize how many photos of books i had in my phone gawdamn

books once, currently, could be banned... do these maybe criticize the cultural-socio-political circumstances of their era? shouldn't we be reading these?

It’s not like they just up and left

I LOVE COLOR CODING BOOKS PT 1

We all need a good cry. I know I do. This list (fiction and nonfiction) is curated of books that spark the ugliest of cries. Whether it’s over fictional couples that can’t find a way to be together or the reality of our ever-changing world, this list will have exactly what you’re looking for. Good luck to you and your mental state. Happy reading <3