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rainwilder

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Fever Dreams & Strange Realities
LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
My Taste
Beartown
The Starless Sea
The Spear Cuts Through Water
A Language of Limbs
The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
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A Trade of Blood
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Der bor en ung pige i mig, som ikke vil dø
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  • May 08, 2026
    Mad Sisters of Esi
    Mad Sisters of EsiTashan Mehta
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    "Sister is a careful word. [...] You have to be slightly mad to love like that."

    The easiest way to my heart is to write a story within a story within a story and this book did exactly that with beautiful prose and a captivating tale. It's a tale of sisterhood and of madness that spans time and space in a logic-defying capacity that is so stunningly written I couldn't put the book down. I loved the "mixed media" approach, it made me feel like I was on my own journey across the black sea, discovering these stories as I sail. Also, the concept of the whale of babel and the museum of collective memory are just so fucking cool, I can't stop thinking about it.

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    rainwilder commented...

    oooh love this i wanna try a: angels in america (tony kushner) b: beartown (fredrik backman) c: chain-gang all-stars (nana kwame adjei-brenyah) d: darius the great is not okay (adib khorram) e: everyone in this room will someday be dead (emily austin) f: foxhole court (nora sakavic) g: ghostroots ('pemi aguda) ((technically 4.5 buuut most of the short stories were 5 stars for me so i'm counting it)) h: the hounding (xenobe purvis) i: icarus (kayla ancrum) j: k: l: letters to a young poet (rainer maria rilke) m: (the) miseducation of cameron post (emily danforth) n: (the) night circus (erin morgenstern) o: our wives under the sea (julia armfield) p: piranesi (susanna clarke) q: r: radio silence (alice oseman) s: (the) spear cuts through water (simon jimenez) t: the starless sea (erin morgenstern) u: us against you (fredrik backman) v: w: when the world tips over (jandy nelson) x: y: z:

    okay so what i'm seeing is i need some more 5 star reads this year also just choosing one per letter sometimes was harder than i expected

  • An Alphabet Full of Five Stars

    I wonder if we can come up with five star reads for every letter of the alphabet. If you want to try, add one or two to the list. I've started with my favorite five star read. If a book title begins with "The", you can use the second word in the title for purposes of this list. I suspect we'll have difficulty fillings in some of these, but who knows. Only rule besides the alphabetization is that it has to be a five star read for you, however you personally rate books. NOTE: I may use this list to unwisely add to my already interminable TBR list.

    UPDATE: Edited the list--I think I have everything. I noticed some of my updates disappeared, so I tried to add them back. My poor TBR! We just need something for X and Z!

    A: 1) Ascension, Nicholas Binge; 2) And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie; 3) Angels in America, Tony Kushner; 4) Answers in the Pages by David Levithan; 4) Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint/Griffin/Justin/Travis McElroy, Carey Pietsch B: 1) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones; 2) Beartown, Fredrik Backman; 3) The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy; 4) Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle; 5) Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E Butler C: 1) Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky; 2) Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-brenyah; 3) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; 4) Come As You Are by Dahlia Adler D: 1) Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith; 2) Darius the Great is Not Okay, Adib Khorram; 3) Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross; 4) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; 5) Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor E: 1) The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells; 2) Educated by Tara Westover; 3) Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead, Emily Austin; 4) Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green; 5) Educated by Tara Westover F: 1) The Fisherman by John Langan; 2) The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin; 3) Foxhole Court, Nora Sakavic; 4) Fortune Favors The Dead by Stephen Spotswood; 5) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar G: 1) The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison; 2) Ghostroots, 'Pemi Aguda; 3) Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi; 4) Genocide Bad by Sim Kern H: 1) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; 2) Hekate by Nikita Gill; 3) The Hot Zone by Richard Preston; 4) The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis; 5) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; 6) Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell; 7) Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson; 8) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi I: 1) Icarus, Kayla Ancrum; 2) I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy; 3) I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones J: 1) Jaded by Ela Lee; 2) Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg K: 1) Know My Name by Chanel Miller; 2) Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel L: 1) Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; 2) Let Them Stare by Julie Murphy & Jonathan Van Ness M: 1) The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley; 2) Make Believe by Victoria Hutchins; 3) The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily Danforth; 4) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubegshig Rice; 5) Martyr by Kaveh Akbar; 6) Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe; 7) Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad N: 1) The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern; 2) No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai; 3) Nineteen Steps, Millie Bobby Brown & Kathleen McGurl O: 1) Orbital by Samantha Harvey; 2) Our Wives Under the Sea, Jjulia Armfield; 3) Out North by Craig Jennex & Nisha Eswaran P: 1) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke; 2) Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux; 3) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; 4) Paige Not Found by Jen Wilde Q: 1) Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde; 2) QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling; 3) The Queen of Nothing; Holly Black R: 1) Radio Silence, Alice Oseman; 2) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston S: 1) The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E Harrow; 2) Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan; 3) The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez; 4) The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern; 5) Shark Heart by Emily Habeck; 6) Strong Female Character by Fern Brady; 7) The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Tay Hinton; 8) Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany T: 1) To The Lighthouse, Woolf; 2) To Be Taught, if Fortunate, Becky Chambers U: 1) Ulysses by James Joyce; 2) Unprotected by Billy Porter V: 1) Vicious by VE Schwab; 2) Vagabond by Tim Curry W: 1) Where No One Can Hear You, by JE Rowney; 2) When the World Tips Over, Jandy Nelson; 3) We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin; 4) When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill X: Y: 1) Yukon Ho!, Bill Watterson; 2) Yellowface by RF Kuang Z:

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