vumaisbooked

(She/her). 20-something. Local library lover. “A peasant who reads is a prince in waiting” - Walter Mosley. “My taste” = my 2025 top 5.

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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

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The Hunchback of Notre dame?

Hello hello! I’m not sure if this quest takes on recommendations but is there any chance The Hunchback of Notre Dame could be added as well?

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Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious'--New York Times) When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end. There is also the matter of the family curse: “No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace...” which has been handed down from generation to generation, breaking hearts and causing three generations of abandoned Falodun women to live under the same roof. When Eniiyi falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. As several women in her family have done before, she ill-advisedly seeks answers in older, darker spiritual corners of Lagos, demanding solutions. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak? Or can she break the pattern once and for all, not only avoiding the spiral that led Monife to her lonely death, but liberating herself from all the family secrets and unspoken traumas that have dogged her steps since before she could remember? Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of modernity and superstition, vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation. With it’s unforgettable cast of characters, it asks us what it means to be given a second chance and how to live both wisely and well with what we’ve been given.

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ZebaAli

What book started your love for a particular genre?

Okay, I'm a huge Romance fan and there was a time when I left that genre for good because of disappointment. Romance didn't feel good, the plot only contained smut without any good story.

But Sarah Adams revived my love for Romance. I read her When in Rome and that book pushed the love for the Romance genre in me again.

So I want to ask what's that one book that made you love [your fav genre] ?

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proshun

What's a movie or show adaptation that you think is better than the actual book?

Very rarely is it that I think a movie or show adaptation of a book is better than the actual book, but I watched Sweetpea and really enjoyed the show and decided to pick up the book and I really, really hated it lmao

Is there a movie or a show that you think was way better than the book it's based off? I'm also looking for new movies and shows to watch so... 👀

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

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Apr 16, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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I wonder how this story would be told as a who-done-it murder mystery. The format chosen was a bit flat in comparison to a who-done-it, but it makes for a a great palette cleanser thriller.

Most of the plot twists got me! I was also turning pages and reading huge chunks of this at once. I also love seeing characters who all detest each other pretend otherwise to save face. The messy dynamics were very entertaining.

Unfortunately, I found some of the dialogue during the reveals to be rather clunky and over written in a way that didn’t 100% feel like the way people actually communicate with each other. As well, I understand why there were so many character points of view, but the writing would have been stronger if the author hadn’t given so many rapid character changeovers. It could have benefited from more subtlety.

But overall I was thrilled! I can’t wait to read more from Lucy Foley.

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The Guest List

Lucy Foley

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. It's the wedding of the year. But someone won't survive it. On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the wedding of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Will is a rising television star, handsome and charming. Jules is a smart, ambitious magazine publisher. Though the sea is a little choppy and the cell service spotty, their wedding is everything you'd expect of a young power couple: designer dress, four-tiered cake, boutique whiskey, vintage champagne. Every detail has been curated to perfection. All that's left to orchestrate is the happiness. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. It's not long after the cake is cut and the champagne popped that resentments and petty jealousies come out. Worse yet, the latest barometer reading shows the weather has shifted from FAIR to CHANGEABLE, and dark clouds are looming overhead. Everyone on the island has a secret. Everyone has a motive. And someone won't leave this wedding alive...

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Bravo to the list curator

Congratulations to heathersdesk for being the first community-voted list-to-quest creator!! I'm excited to have joined and have earmarked a few books to start with.

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Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction 🪄🚀✊🏾

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This Quest was inspired by the List "Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction" created by heathersdesk, winner of Q1 2026 community voting.

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African-inspired Fantasy

by kishmish

55 books

Fantasy settings based on African geography, cultures, folklore, myths, legends, or histories — inspired by the Quest with Asian stories of this kind. Suggestions welcome!

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

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Razorblade Tears

S.A. Cosby

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.Provocative and fast-paced, S.A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.

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I feel like I can guess what Will did at the bachelor party to make Charlie hate him so much and I think it’s skeevy 🤢.

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White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this classic psychological thriller, the reader will find many more questions than answers. Even though this is one of Poe's shortest stories, nevertheless it has become one of his most highest regarded works. It is a profound and, at times, ambiguous investigation of the paranoia that may lie within the depths of one man's mind...

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White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi

In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and grumbles and malignly confuses visitors in its mazy rooms, forcing winter apples in the garden when the branches should be bare. Generations of women inhabit its walls. And Miranda, with her new appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to them than she is to her brother and father. She is leaving them slowly - Slipping away from them - And when one dark night she vanishes entirely, the survivors are left to tell her story. "Miri I conjure you " This is a spine-tingling tale that has Gothic roots but an utterly modern sensibility. Told by a quartet of crystalline voices, it is electrifying in its expression of myth and memory, loss and magic, fear and love.

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library card recs for Libby! (free & accessible to everyone)

I'm an Aussie gal looking for some new library cards to add to my Libby acc since I've noticed I've been having bad luck finding books on there lately. I'm looking for free libraries that don't require a residential address. Any recommendations or suggestions would be much appreciated! (Also, does anyone know if there's a card limit on Libby?)

Quick questions for anyone who knows - if you don't live in the US but need to supply an address, can you just use a random address for like a shopping centre or something, or will it detect that it's not a proper residential address? I feel icky using an actual address, but I'm trying to find ways around it.

The libraries I have cards for already: • Brisbane City Council Library Services - Brisbane only apply here • Ipswich Libraries - Free for Ipswich and QLD apply here • Redland City Library Service - Free to Redland City Council and QLD apply here • Gold Coast Libraries - Free for Gold Coast & QLD apply here • Queer Liberation Library - Free and accessible to everyone apply here (just tick the box saying you have a US address and you're golden, you don't have to supply one) • Toowoomba Region Libraries - Free to anyone with a QLD address apply here

Comment suggestions: • Literature Translation Institute of Korea - Free and accessible to everyone apply here • Books Unbanned program is attached to multiple libraries- Free but US only with 1 Canada library apply here • Connected Libraries - Free, Australian address required apply here • Yarra libraries- Free, Australian address required apply here

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Apr 12, 2026

4.5

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