Recs if you like Colored Television...

this is your reminder to read books by Black authors all month, all year, every year— not just during Black History Month. it’s crucially important to be able to diversify your reading and your bookshelves. expand your mind, your perspectives, your knowledge, and your taste. if you don’t know where to start, here are some recommendations!

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

Works of fiction that remind of their author's life.

A type of novel among other things called autobiographical fiction as I have learnt.

Recommendations always welcome!

works that look at the life and legacy of ‘great’ fictional artists. recommendations welcome!

This isn’t just “weird girl lit,” it’s weird girl books with a MESSAGE. with something to say and doing it in a weird way!! No shame to the angry woman weird girl books but that ain’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking space, magical realism, weird kinks as metaphors. I’m talking new takes on the form, books that do things differently. If you know, you know. These are some of my favorite types of books and nearly everything on this list I’ve read and loved.

You’re a mirrorball, sometimes it doesn’t feel so glamorous, it’s hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound, cry your eyes violet, you’re down bad crying at the gym, it was not convenient, if they call you a "slut!" it might as well be worth it for once, they told you all of your cages were mental so you got wasted like all your potential, if the shoe fits walk in it 'til your high heels break, they kicked out the stage lights but you’re still performing, your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems, say you’ll remember me