AJ_in_Huchiun

I 🖤 trans/queer/BIPOC/disabled authored litfic, queer romance, sci fi, fantasy, memoirs, non-fiction. And books on disability, pain science, collective liberation. Audio reader.

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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree – a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story. It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her – and lose her – and find her – and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written – but whose will it be?

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

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Queer/trans kinky and/or poly book recs?

Looking for fiction or memoir with queer and trans kinky and/or poly representation. The kink needs to be consensual (as actual kink is/should be). Need to be on audiobook and available OFF of audible/spotify (I don’t eff with those platforms)

Contrary to how it sounds, I’m actually not looking for erotica- I want an enticing story too lol. Favorite genres include sci fi, fantasy, historical fiction, etc (a person can dream…) and open to others.

I have seen some dark fantasy recommended and honestly that’s the one genre I’m not looking for with this but open to those recs if they are really good. Also not looking for “how to” or self help books.

Especially interested in books with protagonists that are not cis men :)

Extra bonus if she calls them Daddy or they call her baby girl 🎀

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Mad Sisters of Esi

Tashan Mehta

Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folktales of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figure they know only as 'Great Wisa'. To Laleh, this is everything. For Myung, it is not enough. When Myung flees the whale, she stumbles into a new universe where shapeshifting islands and ancient maps hold sway. There, she sets off on an adventure that is both tragic and transformative, for her and Laleh. For at the heart of her quest lies a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries: the truth about the mad sisters of Esi. Fables, dreams and myths come together in this masterful work of fantasy by acclaimed author Tashan Mehta, sweeping across three landscapes, and featuring a museum of collective memory and a festival of madness. At its core, it asks: In the devastating chaos of this world, where all is in flux and the truth ever-changing, what will you choose to hold on to?

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Queer/trans kinky and/or poly book recs?

Especially interested in books with protagonists that are not cis men :)

Extra bonus if she calls them Daddy or they call her baby girl 🎀

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The Skin and Its Girl

Sarah Cypher

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. Decades later, Betty returns to her Aunt Nuha’s gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she’s every known or should she follow her heart for the woman she loves, perpetuating her family’s cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the U.S. But as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than that. The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide, unite, and define us—and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller.

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Non-fiction narrators!

Help!

I want to at least do 6 non-fictions next year and for me the key is audiobooks (with a good narrator)! Please send me your recommendations!

I had a friend recommend Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential so I have already noted that but literally any genre within non-fiction! I do like medieval history and ancient history! I’ve enjoyed some autobiographies! I work in a specialist cancer hospital so don’t mind a bit of medical and love films&music!

Please throw me your best - Thankyou in advance kind PageBound people!

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All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women--soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It's then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

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Thoughts from 82% - Being home bound

“Abled people and the ableist mainstream media talk about being “home bound” in hushed and terrible tones, just like they talk about the other disabled “bounds”—“wheelchair-bound,” “bedbound”— they’re prime numbers in the Fate Worse Than Death Olympics. Like it’s awful to be bound to someone or something. Not even bringing consensual BDSM into it, I don’t think being tied to something that goddamn awful. Why is it so bad to be linked to something gorgeous —a wheelchair, a home, a bed—that helps you fly?”

Leah is so brilliant and has made me reflect on forms of internalized ableism I perpetuate. I spend most of my time at home due to my physical disabilities. And I usually say this with a sad tone when disclosing it to other people, maybe to make it easier for them to say a quick apology and move on. But the truth is, I love my home, I have made my apartment a sanctuary for me and my needs, and I think it's beautiful to change the narrative and not be my own hater lol While I understand people have different experiences and I don't want to invalidate their pain, it's also great to see other perspectives. Disability is a spectrum and it's important to highlight that everyone experiences their disability differently, and we shouldn't assume they are unhappy with their current environment just because it's not the norm.

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The Keeper of Magical Things

Julie Leong

An almost-mage discovers friendship—and maybe something more—in the unlikeliest of places in this delightfully charming novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes.Certainty Bulrush wants to be useful—to the Guild of Mages that took her in as a novice, to the little brother who depends on her, and to anyone else she can help. Unfortunately, her tepid magic hasn’t proven much use to anyone. When Certainty has the chance to earn her magehood via a seemingly straightforward assignment, she takes it. Nevermind that she’ll have to work with Mage Aurelia, the brilliant, unfairly attractive overachiever who’s managed to alienate everyone around her.The two must transport minorly magical artifacts somewhere safe: Shpelling, the dullest, least magical village around. There, they must fix up an old warehouse, separate the gossipy teapots from the kind-of-flaming swords, corral an unruly little catdragon who has tagged along, and above all: avoid complications. The Guild’s uneasy relationship with citizens is at a tipping point, and the last thing needed is a magical incident.Still, as mage and novice come to know Shpelling’s residents—and each other—they realize the Guild’s hoarded magic might do more good being shared. Friendships blossom while Certainty and Aurelia work to make Shpelling the haven it could be. But magic is fickle—add attraction and it might spell trouble.

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