Recs if you like Swing Time...

books about the beauty and heartbreak of lifelong, ever-evolving female friendships. oh, to have been children together! to have grown up together, or to have grown apart!

they call me hell, they call me Stacy, they call me her, they call me Jane…that’s not my name!!!

this is a list of books featuring characters without a name

as always, taking any and all suggestions!!

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!

This house runs on CPT⌚️These books explore subversions of hegemonic time, including queer time, crip time, black time, mad time, and postcolonial time. Suggestions welcome!

novels that track friendships throughout time. full of complex childhood comparison trauma, friend break ups and perhaps reconciliations, shifting friend group dynamics, and the impact of age on our most foundational relationships.

Covers so bright you gotta read with shades

The books that were considered for @littleleggies book club. Please check books for content warnings, as many have significant triggers.

The ultimate bookish read!

Reading list

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

All the books legendary music critic Touré features in the bookshelf behind him in his YouTube videos

sweeping sagas that cover whole decades of a person or family's life