Tell me the author(s) that you automatically read whenever they release a new book please I wanna know 🥹🫶🏻

heyo! 👋

i’m going to Italy in November for 10 days and need some book recs! i have One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle and Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood in mind, but i’m open to more ideas!

i love Romantasy, Thrillers, Mysteries, and Romance, but i’d love to read more Sci-Fi and Dystopian books 👀

the setting doesn’t have to be in Italy and i don’t have any triggers or tropes that are a hard no. i’m open to anything, bonus points if it’s on KU! ❤️

I recently moved for college and luckily I have extended family living here (one of my cousins has the flat right underneath mine), and I rly rly wanna bond with them more. They were thinking of starting a book club, so I wanna be prepared and have a bunch of options once we start (I rly sold myself as a reader)

They're in their mid twenties, and love horror, action, mysteries, all that kind of stuff. One of them is also rly into historical and non fiction reads, specifically ones that have to do with political history or psychology. From films I also know they can get into weird, underground stuff with lots of symbolism. One of them also has just started trying to get into reading, and he's picked up the shining I believe (he wants to get through Stephen King's stuff, so maybe smth good from him?). We're all slow readers btw, maybe smth smaller, so my cousin also isn't intimidated to start

I unfortunately am not as knowledgeable in those subjects (my top genres are romance and lit fic) and though I might have some contemporary to recommend, I would prefer not having to pretend I haven't read said books bfr. Please help a fellow reader out!!

I love to travel but lack the funds to do it. I figure lots of people are in that boat.

Let's play a game.

Comment a book that made you feel like you were transported to a specific location and where that location was. Bonus if you've been but not required.

That way, anyone can travel in their minds through literature! Any genre, questionable accuracy acceptable (like if it's a fantasy set in a certain place).

I'll go first.

Work in Progress by Kat Mackenzie - Great Britain

Romance - Takes a woman around GB by bus. Bit touristy, but good fun in different locations. Reminds me of my trip.

Flawless by Elsie Silver - Canadian Rockies

Romance - Set in fictional BC or AB town (I found conflicting info) and describes the mountains and the weather a lot. Really puts you in the atmosphere. About bullriders and mentions aspects of Stampede culture if I remember correctly (the Calgary Stampede is a huge thing).

I saw someone ask this (not on here) but there was only one rec and I need more. Does anyone have any good recs for popular girl x popular guy romance books?

I was thinking about this earlier in terms of my own reading and realised my favourite fiction and non-fiction this year were both genres I don’t usually gravitate towards. My favourite fiction - Lonesome Dove - is the first western I’ve ever read, and I distinctly remember hating the westerns my dad would watch when I was a kid. My favourite fiction - Free by Lea Ypi - is a memoir and I almost never like memoirs!

So what’s your favourite read or reads of the year, and were they books you expected to love?

Hi everyone So I everyday try to find good spice free books but I feel like it is sometimes difficult to find🥲 So if ANYONE could name their favorite spice free books but I would be so happy🥹

And I don’t really care which trope it is because I just need books😅 So it could be enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, second chance romance or just anything will help. Thank you!

So, I was wondering what are the different ways you guys discover new books. I used to get my TBR from Booktube and Instagram exclusively and now I am looking to expand that in order to discover indie and self published books or just books that interest me.