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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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Feb 25, 2026

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The Heir Apparent

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family—or to her own heart It’s New Year’s Day in Tasmania, and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out she’s in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become more-than-friendly with Jack—when a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand-man, with the tragic news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident. Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and in addition to the shock and grief, Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne—a role she has publicly disavowed. Returning to London as the heir apparent Princess Alexandrina, Lexi is greeted by a skeptical public not ready to forgive her defection, a grieving sister-in-law harboring an explosive secret, and a scheming uncle determined to claim the throne himself. Her recent life—and Jack—grow ever more distant as she feels the tug of tradition, of love for her grandmother, and of obligation. When her grandmother grants her one year to decide, Lexi must chart her own will it be the one determined by an accident of birth, or by her own heart?

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Recommendations similar to Sing Backwards and Weep

Kia ora 👋 I’m after recommendations for anything similar to Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan. This is one of the very few books that my partner has fully read as an adult and I’m hoping to find him something in a similar vein to keep him reading 😂 He liked that it was raw, honest, sad and that he (Mark) never tried to seem like a good person. My partner likes music and film so anything related to those or people in those industries would be a plus.

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Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?

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Feb 21, 2026

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Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

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Let’s Hear It

Hello PB beauties!

I want to know your literary “hear me out”!

This is anything book related that may be an unpopular opinion or even controversial 😏 just remember to keep the comments kind!

Some examples are (but are not limited to):

character traits
tropes
kinks
author prose
narrator POV
where and when you read

The sky is the limit and I want to hear them all 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Book recs for a bingo challenge

Hello friends!

I am completing a bingo card challenge for a local bookstore, and there are two prompts left that I would love some recommendations for 🥰 They are:

Historical romance NOT set in the UK or US

Disabled Main Character, Written by a Disabled Author (my preference here would be fantasy or mystery but I’m open to anything you think is really good!**

Thanks so much!

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Give me your greatest, safest SFW books!

Lunar New Year is here! Prosperity and great health to all!

But I need your help PB! I’m going to be inundated with visits and my weird family culture (I’m sure I’m not the only one with these) is that I’m not allowed to read books or use an “iPad” size device which means my ereader is out. I can only use my phone to read whilst visiting, and unfortunately my current library is very NSFW indeed.

Please introduce me your greatest SFW reads! Some preference:

any genre
non-fiction would be great too
I’m not super keen on teenage/YA type books but if you think it’s amazing I’m gonna take a look!
no school setting

SFW in this instance here would be if a kid peeks at my screen no one is gonna string me up by my toes.

Thank you in advance!

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