catsano

👋 she/her 🏳️‍🌈 🥰 devoted cat mom 🐈 i dig a memoir, weird girl lit fic, gay shit, nonfiction, spec fic 🧊 abolish prisons and police 🐷 🍕 eat the rich 💰 🇵🇸 free palestine! ✨️

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The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1)

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Autobiography of Cotton

Cristina Rivera Garza

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents’ journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas’s life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US border. Through archival research and personal narrative, Rivera Garza chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers’ strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents’ lives and the territories they helped develop. An intimate fictionalization, Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.

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The Iliac Crest

Cristina Rivera Garza

On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.

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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

Yukito Ayatsuji

The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club’s annual trip. But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive. As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?

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NachoCheese

WHERE FROM📍

What’s a book (or series, or movie, or both!) that takes place where you’re from?!💭✈️📍

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Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark

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these titles are complete sentences!

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Metafiction & playing with form

by AFlockOfFuries

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Books that play with the "book" as a medium or are otherwise self-reflexive/meta.

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MackCheese14

Fav tea 🫖

I’ve noticed that there is a large overlap in people who love tea and love books… so I bring u the question;

What’s ur fav tea to drink while reading?

Mine is Apple tea, but orange pekoe is a close second!!

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Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Angela Y. Davis

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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

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thelittleghosty

Pirate/Water Themed Book Recs?

Hi everyone! I read some pirate books last summer and it was really fun. I wanted to do it again this year and was wondering if anyone knew of any good books set in or around the sea? I'm talking about pirates, mermaids, sailors, characters who live on islands or beaches, etc. It can be any genre.

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romancemimi

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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CaitlinByHerShelf

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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Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.

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kimboslicingit

Feb 07, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0

Wow. So I listened to the audiobook of this, and though it did take a little while for me to get into it, once I was in, I was ENTHRALLED. Many times I felt like I was experiencing a movie, honestly (a great side effect of a good audiobook narrator).

This book is an excellent anti-hero story with heavy themes that the US is constantly trying to evade. I found the juxtaposition of language between Arthur and Good Stab so well done as the story takes you on a journey of horrific colonialism as it intersects with the Blackfeet tribe. Would absolutely recommend the read.

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How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of women’s issues today with her irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious How to Be a Woman. “Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary,” (Elle UK), Moran’s debut was an instant runaway bestseller in England as well as an Amazon UK Top Ten book of the year; still riding high on bestseller lists months after publication, it is a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Now poised to take American womanhood by storm, here is a book that Vanity Fair calls “the U.K. version of Tina Fey’s Bossypants….You will laugh out loud, wince, and—in my case—feel proud to be the same gender as the author.”

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