Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.






Forearms are sexy
I started keeping a list on my phone every time I caught a character drooling over the love interest's forearms and now I am sharing my findings with the world! I shall continue to conduct this important groundbreaking research for the sake of all mankind . Looking for collaborators! If you find any mentions of sexy forearms in your books, I would love to add it!
Note: Inclusion in this list doesn't mean I loved the book, strangely, some of these books are my lowest rated reads. π€·π»ββοΈ






NPRβs Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to childrenβs literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPRβs website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.






Book(s) of the Month(s) π
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!






Julia Whelan: Queen of Audiobooks
A list of audiobooks narrated by Julia Whelan who does great work and whose delivery scratches my brain in just the right way. For anyone who enjoys her narration and wants to know if they should go for the audiobook version!






Good Reads Choice Awards 2025
Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.






Hot 2025 Summer Romance Reads!
We're teeing up your piles of summer reads with our quarterly romance roundup! As a reminder, we haven't read most of these books -- but they're the ones toppling our TBR! Books are sorted from June releases at the top of the list to September releases at the bottom.






2025 BOTM
All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles






Notable Fiction Books of 2025
Fiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list
Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! βΊοΈ 3/17/2026






Healing Grief With Love






NYT's best fiction of 2025
according to the new york times' november list






Summer is here
The ones Iβll read by the pool, the beach or outside enjoying the sun on my face.






Millennial Feminist Cozy
These books feel like premium peak millennial Obama-era hope in the current Cheetoh-ruled world. They are what my best hopes of current reality are, with maybe a bit of magic thrown in. Reading and re-reading them is keeping me functioning right now. For the most part π
Bad things happen but these marginalized characters take it on and win in a way that satisfies me. I will save the books where bad things happen to bad people to another list!






thought daughter
books for when βi liked itβ is not enough and suddenly i have a 900-word thesis about womanhood, class, family dynamics, power, and desire






BOTM 2025






Want to read, but not now
They are not in my current brain path, but I need and want these books.





