Recs if you like Bad Words...

All the 2026 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

another trend I've noticed lately - bisected & dual color covers

AKA: I love you almost as much as I love books

Romances and rom-coms with at least one main character who works in/around/with books (editor, publisher, author, seller, librarian, professor, etc)

Always open to suggestions!

All the Illumicrate, Afterlight, Evernight, Starbright, etc. picks for 2026

The title speaks for itself 🤝

links for the full year in the comments

Will be updated as the year goes on ✨ open to comments ✨

Female Asian Americans & Asian-coded protagonists in fiction (also Asian diaspora beyond America)

We haven't read these, but if we somehow find time to read 18 books in October, these will be those books.

With How Good They Were!

updated weekly!

He is not the love of your life! He is literally just a guy! Hit him with your car!

Otherwise entertaining romance books ruined by toxic MMCs. The girls deserve so much better.

Asian (including Asian-coded) MMC love interests in romance books including both M/F romance and Reverse Harems (aka Why Choose)

Romances for devil goats. You know a corporate office is a downright erotic setting to you.

i’m walkin’ here!

Books that take place in NYC and New York

updated weekly!

you say bitch like it’s a bad thing

My favorite kind of heroine.

books with main characters that write or work in the industry

Falling in love through written words: letters, texts, online chat, magical typewriters, etc