#genre tbr

[peacehopeandrats]

Read Every Day In October

And so now begins my next challenge. October starts a special challenge for me, as I am raising awareness (and funds) for the American Cancer Society. I am asking my personal friends and family to either read with me and also find sponsors, cheer me on and hold me accountable, or sponsor me as I read. Some people are donating per book I finish, some are donating per hour I read, some are just giving a total at the end. I love doing this because it takes something I love and uses it to make money for a cause close to my heart. I mean, sure rats die of cancer and I want that ended, but both my Star Trek family and my personal family have lost members to cancer. I read for the memory of all of them, to raise awareness and funds in all their names.

This October, I'm using my Genre Bingo card to pick my books from. The goal is to need another card by the end of the month. Will I make it? Fingers crossed.

#read every day in october #october tbr #genre tbr #tbr bingo

[perregrinstudiessometimes]

23 Books for 2023: A Reading Challenge

#reading challenge #booklr #bookblr #books #book #read #reading #reader #fiction #nonfiction #tbr #trope #memoir #author #genre #self help #opinion #classic literature #5 star read

[frogndtoad]

tagged by @gideonthefirst for top 9 books read in 2023 or 9 books from my 2024 tbr! talked abt the books i loved last year in december so im also doing tbr :] 1 - Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

2 - The abridged Les Miserables that I got at a used booksale ages ago and im Excited to have opinions about

3 - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

4 - Blackouts: A Novel by Justin Torres

5 - Black Punk Now edited by James Spooner and Chris L Terry

6 - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

7 - I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

8 - Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver

9 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville

you and conrad have covered a lot of bases w/ppl i know to tag but im gonna be so brave anyway. tagging @jenna-louise-coleman @chronotopes @fruitygay @look-at-the-stars-tonight @roanoky @verbinperfectview and anyone else who wants to!!!!

#capital stuff #i know i said i was going to read more nonfiction in more genres this year and i Am. however im excited for these fiction guys :] #7 and 8 are for two dif book clubs #and then books im currently reading but NOT counting as tbr bc im actively reading them rather than just kinda floating are #martyr! by kaveh akbar #and gator country by rebecca renner which is ofc for a book club this weekend sob

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel García Márquez.

Currently reading! This has been languishing on the TBR for a While™ and came highly recommended by a bookstore coworker. I'm only a couple chapters in, so far, and the family tree is ~Messy~, but the prose is lyrical and lovely!

#books #books of 2023 #one hundred years of solitude #gabriel garcia marquez #yeah i put this one on the imminent TBR for NaNo Voice Purposes lmao #i need something with an omniscient narrator and this was. what i had. #i'm trying to fuzz lit fic and spec fic genre lines with my nano project this year and this was the most likely candidate i had #also dear alan: i'm sorry it's taken me ADDITIONAL years to read this #since the first years after you rec'd it to me lmao #i liked alan a lot even though we didn't work together for very long.... #also (unrelated) i was NOT expecting a chapter focused on one character's dick lmaooo #like sir WHY #but aside from that it's been okay?? readable?? #lowkey nervous reading classics solo because i feel like i'm missing stuff like Context that i'd get in a classroom setting... #i know i can read up on it on my own but consider: I Will Not Do That Probably #so here we are. just me in my bed with this book against the World

[pigeonflavouredcake]

Happy Pride Month

here's a look at my current queer bookshelf🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It's super small atm but it's slowly growing, most of them are either transition related or wlw related. Here's a list of all the books and their Goodreads links from top to bottom.

Gideon The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir. Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space. I am kind of obsessed. I currently only have an e-book version but I liked it so much I'm looking to continue the series as physical books (I'm holding out hope for the books as a birthday present). Also butch rep. I am rabid for butch rep.

One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston. On my TBR pile. A romance that starts on a NYC subway but the love interest is trapped in the past.

The Girls are Never Gone - Sarah Glenn Marsh. On my TBR pile. Girl runs a paranormal investigation podcast and starts investigating a mysterious death from 30 years ago. The most recent book I bought that I'm looking forward to reading when I finish Children of Time.

The Lost Girls - Sonia Hartl. Holly gets revenge on her vampire ex by killing him and stealing his new girlfriend. I read this last year and I don't normally enjoy vampires but this book took me by surprise, lots of funny jokes about immortality and some empathetic discussions about emotional neglect and grooming that did make me cry a little.

Growing Older as a Trans and/or Nonbinary Person - Jennie Kermode. On My TBR pile. Insight and advice on being trans later in life in the UK. Reviewers have mentioned that it's mostly specific to the transfeminine experience but I still thought this book might be nice to look at.

Spectrums - Maxfield Sparrow. A collection of personal anecdotes from autistic trans people. Some bits are poetry some are more essay based, it was very heart-warming and affirming.

It Came From The Closet - Joe Vallese. On my TBR pile. A collection of essays on queer representation in the horror genre.

#you can see a pattern in my reading habits #i love the horror genre as long as it's not vampires or straight people #wlw books #trans books #lgbt books #queer books #lesbian books #queer fiction #queer nonfiction #queer essays #lgbtq fiction #queer romance #lesbian fiction #sapphic books #butch rep #horror books #book recs #tbr books #tbr stack #to be read #recs #reading recommendations #Pride month #lgbt pride #queer pride #pride 2023 #happy pride 🌈 #trans pride #lesbian pride #nonbinary pride

[rockislandadultreads]

Disability Pride Month: Genre Fiction Recommendations

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong". But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong.

Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the "reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist" and the "saga of the wicked woman and mad man" unfold. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn't so predictable. Expect the unaccepted.

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation.

Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed.

But that's easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca's relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.

This is the first volume of the “Pentecost and Parker” series.

Borderline by Mishell Baker

A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she’s sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales.

For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she’ll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble’s disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds.

No pressure.

This is the first volume of the “Arcadia Project” series.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...

This is the first volume of the “Kiss Quotient” series.

#disability pride month #disabilities #Genre Fiction #fiction #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[imthefailedartist]

Looking at my bookshelf today I realize I've made a huge dent in my Owned To Be Read books. It used to one shelf of read books now its three.

To be honest. If I consolidated all of the read books that are on their category or genre shelves, it'd be four.

#books #books and reading #books and libraries #bookshelf #home library #personal goals #reading goals #reading diary #tbr #tbr pile #tbr list #physical tbr #romance novels #contemporary fiction #genre fiction #dune #harlequin romance #red spines #beverly jenkins #penelope douglas #hannibal #vc andrews

[morivella]

can someone share their favorite books with me <3 PLEASE !!

#i don't care which genre just something good :] #im running out of books on my tbr list

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Another day of getting paid to eat fries and read my little gay books

#again thats not the job description #but im allowed to do it and thats whats important #still reading Detransition Baby #its so good its just taking me awhile to finish #i think the next on my list will be The Miseducation of Cameron Post #i just rewatched the movie last night but ive never read the book #im going to knit a book blanket this year #a different color for each genre #i get the feeling my blanket will be saturated with lgbtq books #most of the books on my tbr are queer books and im so excited #plus i plan on rereading at least one book that's lgbtq #called Act Cool #when i bought it the cashier said it was one of their favorite books. i got a good grade in bookstore #but on slow days at my job i tend to just order some food and read on the kindle app #and for the last two days my managers have comped my food cuz im cool #nah last night my manager didnt want to count extra cash and so he comped it #but today a different manager comped it because she said i work hard #and i only had a $100 bill and i dont think she wanted to deal with making the change #but im so excited! eating fries and reading my little trans book #its not little. its almost 400 pages. i feel like im in middle school again

[13eyond13]

wish I could reblog that post about how the only two genres that exist on booktube to choose from are classics and YA fantasy/romance bc god that's true

#im just straight up gonna say it but #i dont think i like fantasy #magic and dragons and shit #you know it just really doesnt do it for me #not even when its trying to be kinda realistic like game of thrones #lord of the rings is good but otherwise idk miss me with that shit tbh #it surprises me when i see how thats so often the ONLY thing many people read #to me it just feels a bit like youve read one youve read them all #ok there is ONE other genre maybe that's like #trendy stuff #you know like sally rooney etc #those books you see all the girls you went to university with putting on their goodreads tbr #over and over again #p

[girl-bateman]

I wanna be the opposite of an influencer and let my followers make all my decisions instead

#i have 16 books in my old tbr and i need to finish the pile before i even GLANCE at my new books lol #also idek some of the genres of these but this is the best categorization i could come up with #polls #bookblr #litblr

[felinemotif]

if you see this, please drop a book recommendation. i have a gift card to spend.

#any genre just not sci fi please! not a fan #um and no colleen hoover #other than that i am open to whatever #huge tbr list but nothing is calling to me and i know i’ll finish the secret history in a day or two #🐈‍⬛ #libros

[squidcreature]

my goodreads tbr is almost 2000 books because I've been using it for over a decade and every year i add more and more books

and this year i am going to try so hard to pull books from it because i marked them as to read for a reason!! they are books i want to read!!

i just have a bad habit of finding a random book not on my tbr and deciding i have to read it immediately ... and it doesn't help that i started watching booktube last year so i'm being exposed to even more books every day ... and i am so easy, like you literally just have to be like "hey this is a good book" and i'll add it to my tbr without even reading the summary sometimes haha

#as of rn i am reading like 5 books that are tbr books #its just so hard #there are so many books already in existence and more coming out all the time #i am just one person!!! #plus i read more genres than i used to which means even more books #but I'd honesty have too many books to read than not enough #*rather have

[gild-and-fire]

christian from the maddest obsession 🤝 eros from electric idol

#they are the same!!! i love this genre of man #the maddest obsession #christian allister #electric idol #AudreyReads #tbr

[ravs6709]

“I am a revolutionary.” zero self preservation. this bitch

also on the topic of self preservation! you should totally read all for the game/aftg the mc also has none of it and its just as insane as orv in like. a gay sports mafia druggie kinda way yknow

Ooh yeah I've heard of aftg I've seen the mutuals go insane over it

#i havent read it since inwasnt sure if it was my genre but ive been reading more modern-ish settings more recently #so i think ill be more inclined to reading it more than i wouldve been before #if its just as insane. maybe ill bump it up on tbr <3 #astra's asks #roshan #roshan reads orv

[rockislandadultreads]

Horror Books by Black Authors: a reading list

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster--and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program—and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world—but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family.

White Is for Witching by 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.

The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis

Death was everywhere. They all stared at me, bumping into one another and slowly coming forward. Sixteen-year-old Zharie Young is absolutely certain her mother morphed into a zombie before her untimely death, but she can't seem to figure out why. Why her mother died, why her aunt doesn't want her around, why all her dreams seem suddenly, hopelessly out of reach. And why, ever since that day, she's been seeing zombies everywhere. Then Bo moves into her apartment building―tall, skateboard in hand, freckles like stars, and an undeniable charm. Z wants nothing to do with him, but when he transforms into a half zombie right before her eyes, something feels different. He contradicts everything she thought she knew about monsters, and she can't help but wonder if getting to know him might unlock the answers to her mother's death. As Zharie sifts through what's real and what's magic, she discovers a new truth about the world: Love can literally change you―for good or for dead. In this surrealist journey of grief, fear, and hope, Britney S. Lewis's debut novel explores love, zombies, and everything in between in an intoxicating amalgam of the real and the fantastic.

#Horror #Scary Stories #Fantasy #Horror Fans #young adult #young adult books #to read #tbr #genre #horror books #reading recommendations #Book Recommendations #black authors #black characters #booktok #booklr #book blog #library books #Highly Rated #books for Halloween #Halloween