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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

Leigh Ann Henion

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The Deep Dark

Lee Knox Ostertag

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Such Sharp Teeth

Rachel Harrison

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she's attacked. Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She's unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver--and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She's changing into someone else--something else, maybe even a monster. But does that mean she's putting those close to her in danger? Or is embracing the wildness inside of her the key to acceptance? This darkly comedic love story is a brilliantly layered portrait of trauma, rage, and vulnerability.

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meganori

Mid year favourites

OK it's time! I want to hear your top 6 books for the first 6 months of 2026! And then 6 books you're looking forward to reading in the next 6 months. Plus your 1 biggest disappointment and your 1 best bookish experience.

My favourites:

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majundar
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
Chosen Family by Madeleine Grey
Kin by Tayari Jones
It's Not What you think by Claire Mackintosh

Looking forward to:

Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel
As you wake break the shell by Becky Chambers
Taipei Story by RF Kuang
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin

Disappointment: Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

Best bookish moment: Every time I've gone into a library with my 8 year old, telling her not to get too many books, and leaving with a stack we can barely carry.

Tell me yours.....

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Bookishwormish

Weirdest thing you found in a book?

From a bookmark to a detail to a dedication to a typo to the cover or tittle itself? I'll go first. Once i was roaming through the used bookstore and I found a page with what i think was blood. Dried from a long time ago, but still...creepy. Also i once found a gestapo propaganda as a bookmark

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200 Monas: A Novel

Jan Saenz

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July–and the darker edge of Breaking Bad and Uncut Gems–comes a whip-smart, irresistible debut novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly close to leaving her college years at Westheimer University behind, all she has to do is pass her finals, pack up her life, and ship off to San Francisco for a prestigious Big Pharma internship. The problem? Arvy just found 200 hits of Molly in her dead mother’s closet. And when two drug dealers come to collect what they are owed, they reveal that the pills are not Molly, but Mona – a rare pharmaceutical that induces intense orgasms. The dealers give Arvy an Sell 200 Monas in 48 hours or die. To aid in her seemingly impossible quest, Arvy recruits Wolf, Westheimer's resident drug dealer who also happens to be infuriatingly charming and distractingly sexy. In a race against the clock, Arvy and Wolf barrel through their college town, leaving a series of erotic shenanigans in their wake; appealing to horny co-eds, lonely barflies, and a mysterious sorority whose sisters have their own ideas for Mona’s potential uses. But if Mona has a knack for unleashing visceral reactions in the body, what will it unlock in Arvy, who has been repressing grief over her mother’s death for weeks? Unashamedly brash, bold, and blistering, 200 Monas is a truly one-of-a-kind listen, a playful and honest examination of sexuality and grief, and a sharp, searing love letter on how to release all that’s inside you.

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Thoughts from 45% (page 211)

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mimilovesreading

Reading low ratings of your fav books?

Am I the only one who LOVES to read low ratings of books they adored? I don't know why, I just love it. I find them so funny too. 🤣 And sometimes they have so much true in them but it doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to stop liking the book. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Taking us from the slave era—when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves—through the centuries of colonialism—when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics—to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars</i< tells the story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. Examining subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and nineteenth-century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad builds a powerful argument about the entrenched systems of white supremacy that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

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Thoughts from 21% (page 98)

I'm really liking the art so far. I really like the use of color. Since most of it is black and white when we do get some color it feels more impactful.

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rinrin2000

What are your favorite subgenres?

What's some of your favorite subgenres you wish more people read? I love discovering new books and genres, so I'm really curious! If you have some book recommendations, that'd be even better.

Mine would be Cozy/Slice-of-Life LitRPG, some of my favorite series would be "I Ran Away to Evil" and "Heretical Fishing".

I'm excited for your guys' recommendations!

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Strong Female Protagonist: Book One

Brennan Lee Mulligan

With superstrength and invulnerability, Alison Green used to be one of the most powerful superheroes around. Fighting crime with other teenagers under the alter ego Mega Girl was fun - until an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading arch enemy, showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy, and suddenly battling giant robots didn't seem so important. Now Alison is going to college and trying to find ways to help the world while still getting to class on time. It's impossible to escape the past, however, and everyone has their own idea of what it means to be a hero.... After a phenomenal success on Kickstarter, Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag bring their popular webcomic into print, collecting the first four issues, as well as some all-new, full-color pages!

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The Deep Dark

Lee Knox Ostertag

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sleepy_sheep

Favourite books in school

I recently had a chat with an old classmate and we got to the topic of books and reading in school. While we both agreed that most of what was read in our classes was boring we both had one or two books we really enjoyed.

So what was your favourite book you read for a class? Also what book did you read in school that you think everyone should read at least once? Not everything has to be about fun and sometimes books that are difficult to get through can be a super important read.

My favourite has to be The visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt a kind of dark comedy. I also think everyone should read Anne Franks Diary at least once. It was a hard read but that makes it so much more important.

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The Deep Dark

Lee Knox Ostertag

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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

Leigh Ann Henion

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First Love: Essays on Friendship

Lilly Dancyger

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space. Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger felt a new urgency in her devotion to the women in her life—a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family. Each essay in this incisive collection is grounded in a close female friendship in Dancyger’s life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop culture—ranging from fairytales to true crime, from Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the “sad girls” of Tumblr—Dancyger’s essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other. Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, it’s our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

JustMe

Jun 26, 2026

Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot: Audiobook: 4.0

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Very informative. I listened to the audiobook and found it very easy to listen to. I now have new movies added to my watchlist. I liked that this book covered multiple people and movies over the Hays Code era. I feel like I learned a lot through this book. I really appreciate the epilogue where the author talked about how there are no heros in this story. Everyone loves a good hero story but in real life there are rarely heros. Just complex people making their way through the world. While you may still be inspired by or look up to some of the people in this book they were just normal people doing what they could within the limitations they had.

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

Michael Koresky

Bloomsbury presents Sick and Dirty by Michael Koresky, read by Robin Speare.A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code.From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included “any inference” of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned Hollywood’s censorship regime, lambasting many midcentury films as the bigoted products of a “celluloid closet.” But there is more to these movies than meets the eye. In this insightful, wildly entertaining book, cinema historian Michael Koresky finds new meaning in "problematic” classics of the Code era like Hitchcock’s Rope, Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy, and—bookending the period and anchoring Koresky’s narrative—William Wyler’s two adaptations of The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s provocative hit play about a pair of schoolteachers accused of lesbianism. Lifting up the underappreciated queer filmmakers, writers, and actors of the era, Koresky finds artists who are long overdue for reevaluation. Through his brilliant inquiry, Sick and Dirty reveals the “bad seeds” of queer cinema to be surprisingly, even gleefully subversive, reminding us, in an age of book bans and gag laws, that nothing makes queerness speak louder than its opponents’ bids to silence it.

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Thoughts from 6% Fireflies

I have always loved fireflies. I have grown up with them. I spent many summers as a kid catching as many as I could in my backyard and releasing them back into the night. I remember how sad I was when I learned not everywhere in the US has fireflies. I can't imagine living somewhere that never gets to experience that nighttime whimsy.

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