Recs if you like A Family Matter...

Fiction & nonfiction books that explore the complexities and traumas of mother-child relationships or in which such relationships play a central role. While many books on this list are what I’d classify as including “mommy issues” there are others that are more about the different perspectives and nuances of the mother-child (often specifically mother-daughter) relationship. Some books center the child, some the mother, some both.

Suggestions are welcome.

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

A collection of books by Irish authors that I've loved or am looking forward to!

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

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Fiction & nonfiction books that explore the complexities and traumas of father-child relationships or in which such relationships play a central role. Not all books on this list include “daddy issues” — these books can be about the different perspectives and nuances of the father-child relationship, whether positive or negative. Some books center the child, some the father, some both.

Suggestions are welcome.

Shamelessly yoinked from a certain other reading app that shall not be named... this is a list of recently published (2025-2026) LGBTQ+ fiction across a spectrum of genres and identities!

(Disclaimer: I haven't read most of these, but so many compelling covers made me want to save them all in a list to continue referencing into the future.)

Motherhood: Some days you rock it, some days it rocks you. Either way, it rocks.

fiction & non fiction that explores motherhood, the joys and triumphs, upheavals and burdens ~ and the ability to choose

weird gay shit, lots of genre and gender bending, probably no fantasy

Awards an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.

These books are chosen for “Read with Jenna” by Jenna Bush Hager.

Latest book added: August 2026

by jenna bush hager

So many books featuring cheating and about adultery. How they start, why they start, and how they inevitably end.