Recs if you like Sky Full of Elephants...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

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!

Book list for the Anti-Brain rot challenge with Boundless press

Now that we are all waiting for the new side stories after the ending of Arcane there is a huge empty space begging to be satisfied with the same feeling of season one (mostly, season two went very middle class and we lost the potential of what could have been one of the greatest revolutionary stories in recent media)

Criteria for the books consist generally • Class schisms • Political intrigue • Moral questions of privilege and responsibility • Picks with queer stories

Do you, like me, often find yourself looking at a book cover thinking, "Y'all are doing waaay too much." Why are book covers so dang extra nowadays? Here are some books that appeal to me simply because they have covers that don't look like a 19 year old with Photoshop barfed a bunch of design elements on a book and called it a day. Some I've read, some are on the TBR. And to all the authors and publishers out there, K.I.S.S.

My favourite books or from my TBR by BIPOC authors in a range of different genres (though I primarily read fantasy and romance) (only first book for a series added, unless not directly linked)

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

My unread list of GCA 2024

books I haven't stopped thinking about, books that coaxed me out of the fog, and helped my burnout

All the books we are reading in the Stockholm Resilience Centre sci-fi book club!

Books that explore some interesting “what if”questions

something different in terms of plot or the way the story is written

the never ending list of buddy reads

Books to yap about with your friends from Simon & Schuster.