it’s that time again! see below for a massive link round up (some of the books link to our bookshop affiliate page)

Fiction we couldn’t put down

(Jessie)

• The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert


• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert


• Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree


• Wildfire by Hannah Grace


• The Golden Frog Games by Claribel A Ortega


• Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood


• School Trip by Jerry Craft

(kelly)

• Babel by RF Kuang


• Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman


• Beloved by Toni Morrison 


• Everything by Andrea Gibson

Fav re-reads

• (J) The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (and ACOTAR) 


• (k) The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

New-to-us Authors

(Jessie)

• Chloe Liese – The Wilmot Sister series


• Hannah Grace – Maple Hills series

(kelly)

• Melissa Febos


• Katherine May


• so many substack peeps (in no particular order, and not necessarily new but needed to rec them somewhere)
  
  
  
  • Marcela Onyango, Feel the News
  
  
  • Anna Brones, Creative Fuel 
  
  
  • Jami Attenberg, CRAFT TALK
  
  
  • Ayesha Kahn, Cosmic Anarchy
  
  
  • Jesse Meadows, Sluggish
  
  
  • Bailey Richardson, Art Dogs
  
  
  • Margaret Killjoy, Birds Before the Storm
  
  
  • Margeaux Feldman, CARESCAPES
  
  
  • Becca Lee, The Haunted Librarian
  
  
  • Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
  
  
  • Nate Stevenson, I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand
  
  
  • Laura K, Normal Island News
  
  
  • Fanny Priest, Resourced
  
  
  • Marlee Grace, Monday Monday
  
  
  • Luca J. Davis, I love love, anything is possible
  
  
  • Chris La Tray, An Irritable Métis
  
  
  • Raechel Anne Jolie, Radical Love Letters
  
  
  
  

Fav ships

• (J) The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

#TrueConfessions

• (k) gonna read Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m part way through a lot of things, as is my nature as a reader: for example, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler, The Milky Way by Moiya McTier, The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. 


• (J) really looking forward to Tempest of Tea, which we’re reading for the podcast in 2024. And Ali Hazelwood has a book coming out that’s dual POV called Not in Love, and I’m really interested to see her write a full book in dual POV.

Nonfiction Books We Loved

(kelly)

• Girlhood and Body Work: the Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos


• Wintering and Enchantment by Katherine May


• Motherhood by Sheila Heti


• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy


• Pageboy by Eliot Page


• In the autism subgenre #SpecialInterest…Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, Neuro Tribes by Steve Silberman, and Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker. 


• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue by Les Feinberg, infamous transcestor. 


• Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Raj Patel and Rupa Marya is a staple on my nightstand bookstack, and I’m slowly working my way through it. Cannot recommend enough. Every chapter is a banger. 


• Anthology Make the Golf Club a Public Sex Forest – edited by Lyn Corelle and jimmy cooper. Exactly what it sounds like. Creative nonfiction, erotica, historical essays, all in the context of abolishing the depraved scourge on the landscape that is a golf course. I hav