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My Taste

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

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

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The Green Mile

Stephen King

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vulpecula

Weekly Bookworm Question (Week 6)

Happy Friday friends! It's been a couple week since I've done this because...idk, things got away from me. But here's my question for everyone this week:

Marry, Fuck, Kill: The main characters of your last three completed books. Bonus points if you provide explanations.

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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

Greer Stothers

In this hilarious, off-the-wall queer fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together. Funny, touching and inventive, this book is perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Dreadful. All his life, Sir Cameron has tried to stay as far away from danger as possible. But when the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights predicting that the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron, he finds himself in a situation too sticky for even his considerable wiles. Short of ideas, Cameron throws himself on the mercy of the one person who now actually wants him to the mad sorcerer. Merulo isn't thrilled to be babysitting a spoilt, attention-seeking knight, but fate has tied them together. And transmogrifying Cameron into a vulture is at least a great source of entertainment. Cameron, meanwhile, is on a voyage of self-discovery. It turns out he's really, really into surly sorcerers who lock him up and tell him what to do. Who knew? As a legion of knights surround their stronghold, led by an angry concussed elf—which definitely isn't in any way Cameron's fault—the sorcerer's poisonous ambitions draw ever closer to fruition. Cameron is quite invested in not dying, but he finds he's also invested in Merulo. And sometimes, supporting the sorcerer you care about means taking an interest in their hobbies. Even if their hobby is trying to kill God. Even if it might get you killed, too.

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whippedstitchreads

Freaky, Feral, Funny Friday Reads 2026! Week 12

HAPPY FRIDAYYY YALLLL!!

The last Friday we have in March! Can you believe it another month has gone by already?!! TIME NEEDS TO SLOW DOWNN!! I hope everyone is having a lovely week and onto the weekend we go! I know the weather is starting to be bipolar, so please be safe!!

This week what book was your freaky, feral, and or funny reads?! For me mine was Satan's Affairs by H.D Carlton more freaky for me. Feral: it was Candy Boys by Jo Raven, it wasn't my favorite read and but the spice was there.... I did read a lot of taboo books (heh) by A.R Taboo

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C.Bee

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r/fantasy Bingo 2026 guesses

Anyone else take part in the yearly (1st April - 31st March) r/fantasy Bingo card? I've got 1 book left to complete the 2025 card but instead of reading it I'm procrastinating and trying to guess next years prompts from the 2026 Bingo Teaser Card .

They always have 5 squares dedicated to Author of Colour, Self-Pub/Small Press, Short Stories, Published 2026 and Book Club.

I'm confident that the prompt for Row 2.4 is Short Stories, Row 3.3 is Published in 2026, and Row 5.3 is Published in the 70's (as they did 80s last year and 90s the year before).

My less certain prompt guesses are: Row 1.3 Translated Row 1.4 Self Pub/Small Press Row 2.1 Ghosts Row 2.3 Spin-off/Media Tie-in Row 3.2 Sequence Words (Last) Row 3.5 Fantasy Academia Row 4.1 Feminist Retelling Row 4.2 Merfolk Row 4.3 Middle-Grade Row 4.4 Aliens Row 4.5 1920's Setting Row 5.1 Author debut (but its a backlist) or Magicians Row 5.2 Food/Cooking or Graphic Novel

But I'm not sure if having Ghosts, Merfolk, Aliens and Magicians is too many character based prompts? For the other squares I either have too many ideas to narrow down or absolutely none. What do you think some of the prompts might be?

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JustMe

Anti-recommendations

I've gotten a lot of great recommendations on this app but now I want to hear everyone's anti-recommendations. What are books you've read that I definitely should not read? Why are they so terrible? Let me hear all about your most hated books.

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twinklebunny55

What got you interested in reading books in the first place?

For me, when I was a child my parents gave me magazines for kids. There were short stories about folklore, funny comics, and more and my mother would read it for me. Before the audiobooks existed, my late mom's voice was my favorite ❤️ Since then, I've been growing up buying more books and when I looked back I realized that it's not just me who's always growing but my book collections too 📚🌱

ex.astris.scientia made progress on...

The Green Mile

Stephen King

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

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Femina

Janina Ramírez

"I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars" - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the 'dark' ages were anything but. Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burnt, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated. Only now, through a careful examination of the artefacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety, and the Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England. See the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories.

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NerdyBookworm112

Recommendations for Older Books (But Not Classics)

I've noticed that the majority of recommendation posts on bookish social media sites list books that have been recently released (i.e. published within the past 5-10 years), or classics (i.e. published over 100 years ago).

I'm looking for recommendations of books published in between those two vastly different time periods. What are your favorite books (or just books you've enjoyed) that were released between 1965 and 2005? What made those books enjoyable to you? All genres are welcome!

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The Green Mile

Stephen King

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.

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CaitlinByHerShelf

Let’s Create a Review Chain 📚👾

Let’s play an easy and quick game - Review Chain!

1️⃣ Post a book in the comments - just the title and author is enough. 2️⃣ Scroll through the books posted and leave a ONE WORD review (keep it spoiler free please) 🤫

Let’s see how many words can be used to describe each book, and how much they’re alike - or different! Feel free to kindly debate one another’s words!

Hope everyone is having a good week! 💛

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