Recs if you like Isaac's Song...

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!

Novels for when you want to explore religious trauma and the impacts of religion through fiction. For nonfic, see my list “From saint to sinner: religious deconstruction”

Suggestions are welcome!

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

under construction

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.

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

I'll never get to all of them, but that doesn't mean I'm not HYPED

Books that aren’t categorized as political, but prove that being alive is political in and of itself

round up of fiction books set in Chicago (for most or all of the story) or nonfiction books about the city