Recs if you like These Summer Storms...

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.

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. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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 children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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! ☺️ 3/17/2026

according to the new york times' november list

The ones I’ll read by the pool, the beach or outside enjoying the sun on my face.

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 😜

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!

books for when “i liked it” is not enough and suddenly i have a 900-word thesis about womanhood, class, family dynamics, power, and desire

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