daniphantom

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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)

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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

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All of Us Murderers

K.J. Charles

A genre-bending Gothic mystery with a strong LGBTQIA+ romance from beloved, award-winning author KJ Charles. As the mists descend, the gaslight flickers, and terror takes its hold, two warring lovers must reconcile in time to uncover the murderous mysteries of Lackaday House—and live to tell the tale.

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet was viewed over 10 million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we’re undergoing a shift in the so-called ‘rules-based order,’ a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.

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Leeknowbiased

Desperately need good LGBTQ romance recs

Hello! I need some good (relatively short under 390-400 page) LGBTQ romance recs. I am afraid I'm not going to reach my book goal this year, so I really need some suggestions. My favorite books are Red, White & Royal Blue and God of Fury if that helps. I love any kind of romance trope (except for miscommunication or cheating). Check out my page if you need an idea of books I've read or Dnf'd. Thank you all in advance lol

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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

Terry Pratchett

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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

Terry Pratchett

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scampireads

FriYAY!!!

Thank god its friday!!! I finally get to read!!!! What are you guys reading this weekend? Do you have any other plans? I'm gonna finish my current read and might start 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' + im gonna watch some F1🚗

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daniphantom

Oct 24, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0

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A well-done first contemporary romance from Cat Sebastian! Her historical novels have been hit or miss for me but the ones I've liked I've really liked. Changing subgenres can be tricky but I think she pulls that part off well; what fell down for me with this book is the pacing. It feels like long stretches of nothing much happening, and being in Simon's head obviously leads to a lot of spinning the internal wheels. I think I would've liked a bit more time seeing their relationship on set and not just this liminal space of hanging out after the season has wrapped, it would've given more weight to their connection. The interstitials set in a fandom discord for their show had me laughing out loud! And overall I did like the book, it just wasn't a new favorite for me.

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The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

Terry Pratchett

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back." "Why?" said Tiffany. "There's no one to stop them." There was silence for a moment. Then Tiffany said, "There's me." Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone... In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.

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My Friends

Fredrik Backman

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

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Star Shipped

Cat Sebastian

Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie. Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time. The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right? Tropes: Enemies to Lovers Opposites Attract Forced Proximity Slow Burn

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holly_bookbanter

Need a book that starts with “R”!

Hey y’all! I do an alphabet challenge every year and this year I’m in need of help for an R book. The title has to start with the letter R (no “A” or “The” etc before it) but that’s the only rule! I’m pretty open to anything though I read a lot of fantasy, romance, historical fiction, women’s lit, and sub genres of all of those. So please share with me your favorite book that starts with the letter “R”! If it’s part of a series I don’t mind as long as it can be read as a standalone, I don’t mind going back to read the others if it’s good but I want to get this one done first ☺️

Thank you 😘

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The Man Who Died Seven Times

Yasuhiko Nishizawa

Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged to re-live the same day nine times. Little does he know how useful this ability will be, until one day, his grandfather mysteriously dies... As he returns to the day of the murder time and again, Hisataro begins to unravel its secrets. With a sizeable inheritance up for grabs, motives abound, and everyone is a suspect. Can Hisataro solve the mystery of his grandfather's death, and prevent it, before his time-loop ends?

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The Stand-In

Lily Chu

Listening time: 10 hours and 55 minutes. Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly “friendly” boss, and yes she still hasn’t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she’s healthy, she’s (somewhat) happy, and she’s (mostly) holding it all together. But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema’s golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie’s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in. The catch? Gracie will have to be escorted by Sam, the most attractive—and infuriating—man Gracie’s ever met. If it means getting the money she needs for her mother, Gracie’s in. Soon Gracie moves into a world of luxury she never knew existed. But resisting Sam, and playing the role of an elegant movie star, proves more difficult than she ever imagined—especially when she learns the real reason Fangli so desperately needs her help. In the end all the lists in the world won't be able to help Gracie keep up this elaborate ruse without losing herself... and her heart.

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Songlight (The Torch Trilogy, #1)

Moira Buffini

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable. We’re two songs joined. And there’s a word for that. A harmony. Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight. She buries that secret deep inside. In Brightland, those with songlight are called Unhumans and are abhorred. Rye is the only other person Elsa has known with songlight, and their shared bond has brought them together. Elsa’s world begins to fall apart one desperate, heart-wrenching day and she doesn’t know where to turn until a girl appears before her. But the girl isn’t really there—her songlight has been drawn to Elsa’s frantic grief. Elsa lives in a remote seaside village; Nightingale, her new friend, lives in a city hundreds of miles away with her father, a government official responsible for rooting out Unhumans. The two never expected to connect via songlight. But when they do, and when they realize the extent of their power, they’ll be thrust in the middle of a war that threatens their very existence. From an award-winning screenwriter making her novel debut comes this powerful, page-turning trilogy perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Adrienne Young.

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A Place For All My Books - board game

I was scrolling around on Skylight and saw this ➡️ Click here

It is a new board game called A Place For All My Books. I'm still a bit confused on the rules, but it appears that your goal is to organize your stacks of books in different rooms of your apartment. Once your social battery points go up, you then visit the Town where you can trade and buy more books, or something. There are puzzle challenges included. There is even a solo mode (yes please).

Not a fan of the price, but it looks so cute and cozy. It looks like the only place you can get it is Barnes and Noble.

Has anyone heard of this board game? Does anyone own it?

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daniphantom

Oct 23, 2025

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

A great concept let down by pacing problems and too much repetitiveness, but worth a read if you're interested in the new twists Stephen Graham Jones puts on vampire lore. Also one of the more graphically gory books I think I've ever read, made all the more horrifying because many of the intense scenes described are based in historical reality. The core concepts in this book will sit with me for a while but I didn't find myself particularly into the execution of the story.

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

daniphantom

Oct 22, 2025

3.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

An important topic that I think all Americans need to learn about, but the organization and repetitive narration left a lot to be desired quality of writing-wise. I'd recommend the print rather than the audio version for anyone looking to pick this up for easier comprehension and for the list of sources/additional reading.

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These Summer Storms

Sarah MacLean

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean’s first foray into contemporary fiction, with a sharp, sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning with hidden desires, destructive secrets…and one week that threatens to tear them apart Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family’s name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects, and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his widow and their grown children a final challenge--an inheritance game designed to humiliate, devastate, and unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance. One week on Storm Island is an impossible task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting dysfunctional chaos: Her older sister’s secret love affair. Her brother’s incessant mansplaining. Her sister-in-law’s unapologetic greed. Her younger sister’s obsession with "vibes". Her mother’s penchant for stirring up competition between her children. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father’s enigmatic, unfairly good-looking, second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the week unscathed. A story about the transformative power of grief, love, and family, this luscious novel is at once deliciously clever and surprisingly tender, exploring past secrets, present truths, and futures forged in the wake of wild summer storms.

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andreajimmoon

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Humbling moment as a language learner and as a reader

When you read a word that you've NEVER heard out loud and when you hear someone say it, it turns out that it doesn't sound how you thought it was gonna sound AT ALL.

Do NOT ask me how I thought "Choir" and "Mischievous" were pronounced

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

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