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Uh oh!!! Best friend's little sister alert!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 No way that's going to cause any drama!
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Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction 💡🌎🤏
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Classics to modern nonfiction, all under 300 pages.
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Feminine Rage 🐦🔥💣❤️🔥
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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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Here for the Himbos 💪❤️🥩
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Kind, beefy, and bumbling, these male love interests are sweet and maybe a tad spicy.
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Which book, in your opinion, received the most justice in its adaptation?
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Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid should be added! It got adapted by Crave Canada, and it’s been blowing up these past 2 weeks.
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I've been getting quite some suggestions for books for this quest, so I thought it might be easier to have a specific place just for suggestions (if you've already commented books, don't worry about it, I've already have them written down and will add them over time 🫶).
Please ensure that the book has a sapphic romance/sapphic main characters that are important to the plot! And don't forget to write both the name and author of the book. Looking forward to your suggestions :)
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hi! i'm new here, one of my reading goals for this year is to read more sapphic books. i'm on summer vacation now, so which one should i sart with?
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Moving forward please comment your book suggestions for quest additions here!
I will take note of all suggestions however this does not guarantee a suggested book will be chosen for the quest. I aim to keep diversity in authors and stories in mind, and the research I put into the booklist takes this into account, as best as I possibly can.
When commenting a book suggestion, please be kind 🙏 I haven't come across any impolite requests however, please remember this (and all quests) are created by a quest owner who cares a lot about their niche.
The forum can get quite cluttered, so I appreciate your assistance in condensing suggestions to this post!
Happy reading!🦇
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I definitely read a bunch of the original 56 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories as a kid (as well as some Hardy Boys and probably some Bobbsey Twins but don't really remember the latter). I also assume that watching Scooby-Doo just increased my enjoyment of a good mystery before I pivoted into Fear Street and Christopher Pike horror novels (many of which felt a little bit like mysteries, but with more risks because of the horror elements).
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hello everyone 🤠 i was just wondering if any of these books featured lgbt couples (specifically m/m)? if not: does anyone have any recs for m/m cowboy romances? i've read hell and gone by tal bauer but that's sadly only it and i think i need to live up to my username 🌈🤠
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soo i read the combined version of the series “the ultimate hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” and it irks me that this quest only has the first book…will at any point we consider adding the ultimate version bc it still counts 😭
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Literary Fiction Starter Pack Vol I 🖼️⭐️📔
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An introduction to Literary Fiction, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.
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With A Game of Thrones in this list, I'm afraid I'll never get the completionist badge! insert crying emoji
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Embark on this epic space adventure that includes some of the greatest and a few rising star space opera series! (This only includes main series books, not novellas, spin-offs or side stories.)
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I would love for classic literature especially from the US to de-center the white straight male perspective. (Don't @me this is an acknowledged societal issue).
Now, obviously, most publishers at the time were funding and promoting white male authors when most of these books were written, but I think it is probably important for us to continue to share and encourage newer readers or even experienced readers in exploring novels that were written by people from a different perspective.
Can y'all comment on this post to include books and authors that you feel are critically acclaimed, and "classic" books that folks can read, understanding from a perspective or time in which this country was forming it's identity? I also think books by immigrant pov would be vital as much of the US is made up of immigrants. If anyone has more native/indigenous classics they can recommend, please do ❤️
In addition to what is already on this quest list- I'll go first:
-The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: -Giovanni's room and Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin: -The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros: -Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel -Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown -The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood (edit: note from comments that Atwood is a Canadian author but tell me this book isn't basically the US rn 😰)
Note: Classic literature refers to enduring, high-quality books, plays, or poems from any culture that have stood the test of time, featuring universal themes, memorable characters, and artistic merit that remain relevant and insightful about the human condition across generations, often studied for their cultural significance and literary excellence
Thanks!!
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hello PB, I keep on noticing a lot of posts/comments/updates mentioning individuals upset with themselves for not being able to meet a goal related to reading in 2025.
so… to counter that: if you are reading this please comment one thing that you are proud of yourself for that occurred this past year. can be related to reading or not.
I’ll go first:
I am proud that I read a fantasy book (and to that chick in my ecology class… you were right, I was too quick to judge the genre!)
your turn 😌