Recs if you like The Bombshell...
Not like other title text!
Book covers with typography oriented in non-standard alignments, instead of the typical horizontal + left to right text alignment. Or: graphic design is my passion, and today we are learning about text paths 🙂↕️. This is an immensely silly List, and always open to suggestions—vertical text, circular, upside down, anything goes!
Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚
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!
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
🇬🇹 🇲🇽 Latinx Heritage Month 🇨🇱 🇨🇷
Latine/Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 but we can celebrate all year long by reading one of these titles!
Additional Resources: ~ https://latino.si.edu/learn/teaching-and-learning-resources/hispanic-heritage-month-resources/hispanic-heritage-month ~ https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2025/hispanic-heritage-month.html
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
2025 BOTM
All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles
Fiction books for the revolution 💥
Books that can be thought as mirrors to what’s happening in the world rn ❤️🔥mostly fantasy and dystopian books. recs are welcome and appreciated!
PLEASURE
books where the main characters chase pleasure in their lives - where they fight to feel through heartbreak, violence, disappointment and more. hoping to read these as summer inspiration to chase my dreams and my own pleasure!
credit: @ismeneormonde on substack, ‘books where women have FUN’
Reading Around The World (Blabys’ Version)
It’s all in the name babe
Best covers of 25' (literary fiction)
The list includes historical and contemporary literary fiction.
Real Love, Redux
So much of modern romance feels scripted and removes the allure. Here is a list a books that returns elevated spontaneity to the genre. Keywords: soft, titillating, cerebral
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