Recs if you like The Secret Lives of Church Ladies...

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!

my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

Any sapphic book that I feel falls in the category of lit fic

short story collections by a single author in a variety of genres. recommendations welcome!

reading diversely is not a trend. it’s the bare minimum. and if your shelves don’t reflect that, you’re missing out.

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

fiction and nonfiction titled "the secret life/lives of ____"

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)

southern gothic; religious horror; intergenerational trauma; dysfunctional families; obsessive love; cannibalism; rot and decay in a small town

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013

short fiction rules!!!

Look, we love the yellow bridges as much as the next person, even if navigating them takes blind faith in your GPS. But once you survive the Fort Pitt tunnel merge, you realize the story here stretches past the skyline.

Think of this as a running mixtape: local history and stories from steep hills and old brick streets. A steady mix whether your people go back generations in the coal and steel towns or you just figured out how to pronounce Youghiogheny. Read along.

Books with black people in it (mostly as the mains characters)

Both Fiction and Non fiction books.

books i think jason todd // aka redhood from dc comics // would read with his head ducked down in a library.

A list of books (both fiction and non fiction) that deal with nuance in Christianity from the perspective of preachers, theologians, deep thinkers and fictional authors. Books that address the lives and experiences of people marginalised by harsh theology. For the people that the modern Bible and the Church left out and forgot.