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Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology, #1)

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The Floating World (The Floating World, #1)

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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

James Islington

This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many—one of 2023’s most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could change the course of history across alternate dimensions. OMNE TRIUM PERFECTUM. The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything—and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again. I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone. Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why. I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.

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The Floating World (The Floating World, #1)

Axie Oh

From Axie Oh, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Final Fantasy meets Shadow and Bone in this romantic fantasy reimagining the Korean legend of Celestial Maidens. Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score of a lifetime—a chest of coins for any mercenary who can hunt down a girl who wields silver light. Meanwhile, far to the east, Ren is a cheerful and spirited acrobat traveling with her adoptive family and performing at villages. But everything changes during one of their festival performances when the village is attacked by a horrific humanlike demon. In a moment of fear and rage, Ren releases a blast of silver light—a power she has kept hidden since childhood—and kills the monster. But her efforts are not in time to prevent her adoptive family from suffering a devastating loss, or to save her beloved uncle from being grievously wounded. Determined to save him from succumbing to the poisoned wound, Ren sets off over the mountains, where the creature came from—and from where Ren herself fled ten years ago. Her path sets her on a collision course with Sunho, but he doesn't realize she's the girl that he—and a hundred other swords-for-hire—is looking for. As the two grow closer through their travels, they come to realize that their pasts—and destinies—are far more entwined than either of them could have imagined...

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My Government Means to Kill Me

Rasheed Newson

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death. Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.

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Deserter

Junji Ito

AN EVER-INCREASING MALICE. A MIND-NUMBING TERROR. SEE THE SEEDS OF HORROR SOWN IN THIS COLLECTION OF JUNJI ITO’S EARLIEST WORKS. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they aren’t twins. And a boy’s nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world… This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito’s earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror.

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How many books have you read this month? What were your five-star/favorite reads? It's a slow month for me; I was in a reading slump the first half of the month and was busy with moving out of our apartment. I read 3 books in total: - The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore (⭐⭐⭐) - The Dare by Elle Kennedy (⭐⭐⭐⭐) All great books, but my fave is The Dare. It's funny and cute at the same time. Special mention to my favorite discovery this month, too, Pagebound! If it weren't for this site, I wouldn't have been able to get out of my reading slump. ☺️

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Better than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

Daisy Haites: Book 2 (Magnolia Parks Universe)

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Books with Trans representation

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I tried to include most books I know or that have been recommended that either have transfem, transmasc or nonbinary main characters. I only add first in series!

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recommendations for more mature romantasys?

hey! anyone else finding it hard to read through countless of romantasys that always have a 18-year-old with similar background as a fmc? i’d love to get recommendations for more mature & complex romantasys 🥹 i read crescent city, that was okayish but would love to have something a bit more unique.

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recs for books with strong friendships?

hi! i was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for books, that, as the title suggests, have good friends in them, especially friend groups. i read the raven cycle a year or two ago & i loved reading the interactions between the main characters! i mostly read fantasy/horror/mystery but i’m open to whatever! so if anyone knows of any books like that i’d love to know!

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Got any audible exclusive recs?

So I have a few credits I gotta use up before they expire from the last promo they offer on prime day. I refuse to buy audible full price, and only get books that are usually “audible exclusive” because I can’t get them through Libby, Hoopla, Libro.fm, and Spotify. 😵‍💫 Got any awesome “Audible Exclusive” recommendations?

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