By that I mean a book that you think you are going to fall so desperately in love with, or else that is going to change you so deeply, or even that you are scared to dislike, that you cannot get on with it? If so, why?

For my part, I've been sitting on Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin for months. She's my absolute favourite author and ever since I was, I think, eleven and a poor writer I've wanted to make a fictional anthropological textbook. God, even just inventories of people's lives, without the need for an overarching plot. Having this book in my shelves is taunting and wistful and wonderful all at the same time, and I'm scared I'm going to love it so much that I will become a mad acolyte.

Starting this rn. Longest book I've ever attempted to read. So intimidating.

Omg, a left handed MC! I can’t remember the last book I read with a left handed MC.

Oh no! Your current PB username has been stolen somehow!

What would you pick as a second option (and why)? (Assume that all other potential usernames are available.)

Pride badges aren't just for June—we’re reading queer stories all year with a list of six unforgettable books that span sapphic horror, family drama, epic myths, and more. Here’s what’s on the docket:

Bone of My Bone by Johanna van Veen delivers sapphic folk horror set in 1635 Bavaria, where two women embark on a haunting journey of survival, devotion, and desire.

A powerful family drama about legacy, home, and what we fight to protect. Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris follows a family fighting to preserve their ancestral land—and the bonds that hold them together.

Rosie Hewlett’s Sweetbitter Song takes us to ancient Ithaca for a mythic, moving story of two women caught in the shadows of war, bound by sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could cost them everything.

A little spooky, a little tender, and full of heart. The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy details the kind of romance that proves the past doesn’t have to keep haunting your future.

A royal romance with serious sparkle. The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert brings the swoon with a whirlwind fake engagement, an overwhelmed prince, and a heroine who refuses to be anything less than herself (this is a MF romance book with a bi MMC).

Summer camp has never been this chaotic. A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio dives into rustic cabins, a painfully hot lifeguard, and one very inconvenient murder mystery.