Let's welcome the #booktok community here to #booksky! I'm looking forward to connecting with you 💙📚
Let's get to know each other. Favorite 3 books you read in the last 12 months.
Mine: Fahrenheit 451, the Invention of Wings, Bill Bryson's the Body
Which were yours?
Let's get to know each other. Favorite 3 books you read in the last 12 months.
Mine: Fahrenheit 451, the Invention of Wings, Bill Bryson's the Body
Which were yours?
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Devil in the Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Like water for chocolate
Parable of the Sower
All about love
Irish Literature is so underhyped! #booksky
Martyr, and Chain gang all stars
🚀 Interesting Facts About Space
🌷 Merry Hall
⚔️ Legendborn
I’m reading Merry Hall again for comfort as times are unsettling and I need a breather from the action.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
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There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
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2. Phantasma
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle 📚💙
A Language of Dragons - SF Williamson
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
The Kingdom of Sweets - Erika Johansen
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Alaska by James Michener
📚 Look Closer ⚡📚
📚 Interesting Facts About Space 🌈📚
A court of silver flames
The liberal redneck manifesto
Pansies - Alexis Hall
The Nightmare Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch
10 Things That Never Happened - Alexis Hall
I'm currently working my way thru the entire Alexis Hall catalog.
love book recs despite an out of control TBR list🙂
Bonus: The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Carissa Broadbent) 🧛🏻
also impatiently waiting until May when her new book comes out ✨
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makki
The Wives: a Memoir by Simone Gorrindo
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
11-22-63 by Stephen King
Honestly, I'm about to read a lot more this year because of the ban.
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Collected Poems of May Swenson
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Here's to more great reading in '25❣️
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so glad to be joining this community!!!
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O’ Brian.
Three fabulous novels set in very different worlds from ours.
Rage of Dragons
Quicksilver
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (way more episodic than the movie)
Winter World by A.G. Riddle (a good series)
I'll definitely read It Ends with Us and the rest of the John Dies at the End series this year.
The Veiled Kingdom Holly Renee and Once You're Mine
Morgan Bridges
📚James by Percival Everett
📚The Women by Kristen Hannah
Always looking for great recommendations!
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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All Systems Red, Martha Wells
A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking, T Kingfisher
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
My Petition for More Space by John Hersey
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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Fall by Albert Camus
YellowFace by RF Kuang, Hopeless Necromantic by Shiloh Briar, and Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
Empire of the Damned, and
Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Also Beth O’Leary’s The No Show.
Then a non-fiction book, an eye-opener, Chris Atkins, A Bit of A Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner
2) Sundown Motel
3) Iron Flame
* Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
* Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
* A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers
Fourth Wing / Iron Flame (reread)
Dark Oz (still need to read part 3)
A Mortal Queen
The Covens Secret
Would love some recommendations ☺️
- the well of ascension by brandon sanderson
- project hail mary by andy weir
- voyage of the damned by frances white
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2) Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
3) Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Yellowface by RF Kuang
James by Percival Everette
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros( I did a reread love those books)
Flock by Kate Stewart
(Cant wait for Onyx Storm to come out!) I need some recomendations for 2025 ❤️
The Daughters War by Christopher Buehlman
Negative Space by BR Yeager
Tough to say which I liked best though
*Fourth Wing / Iron Flame
* Ink Blood Sister Scribe
*Funny Feelings
My book loves are romance, fantasy, magical realism (and any of their crossover subgenres).
The Great Believers- Rebecca Makkai
Wolf At the Table - Adam Rapp
The Mars House- Natasha Pulley
Honorable Mention: Demon Copperhead
A Table for Two by Amor Towles
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
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Weyward by Emilia Hart (which I've recommended to everyone, to universal applause)
and the Unholy Island trilogy by Sarah Painter (in the same world as her Crow Investigations series, which I read thereafter and also liked)
📚 If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
📚 Mr. Fixer Upper by Lucy Score
📚 Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
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A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
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James by Percival Everett
(And currently Iron Flame. You know, for range.)
Keeper of happy endings - Barbara Davis
The many lives of mama love - Lara Love Hardin
The Women - Kristin Hannah
You Can't Date Jesus (Michael Arceneaux)
An Elderly Lady Up To No Good (Helene Tursten)
-Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Charlie N. Holmberg
-Black Sunshine
Karina Halle
-Verity
Colleen Hoover
- Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
- So Thirsty by Rebecca Harrison
- Lights Out by Navessa Allen
🔮🦈💚Magical Realism: Shark Heart Emily Habeck
🪐🍩🎻Science Fiction Fantasy: Light From Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki
Lessons by Ian Mcewan
Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis
1. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. Orb Hunters (Book 3 of a trilogy) by J.D. Edwin
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Currently working on Slaughterhouse Five, though, which is really good!
I think my faves so far have been Last One Left by Riley Sager
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
and I liked the Fourth Wing series
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my all time favorite books🥰
Thx for the recommendations 📚💙🤗
2. Crooked Kingdom- Leigh Bardugo
3. Masters of Death- Olivie Blake
Happy to be here 😊 📚💙
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The geography of happiness (jay hogan)
Change of heart (Kate Canterbary)
3 favorite reads from last year not in order.
1. Crave series
2. One of us is dead
3. Perfect marriage
- Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
- The Potent Solution by Ashley Nova
- Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
Mad Ship -Robin Hobb
Malazan - Gardens of the Moon- Steven Erikson
David Mogo: Godhunter- Suyi Okungbowa
I'm deep diving into fantasy prose once more, so I'm excited for my next read.
"Feed" by MT. Anderson
"This is How You Lose the Time War" by Max Gladstone
"The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barbara Higuera
The Celebrants
Thank You for Listening
Eligible
Final Girl Support Group
Girl, Serpent, Thorn
•The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
•1984 by George Orwell
•The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
Happy to be here and be a part of this new community 🩵🩵🩵✨ thank you guys for being so welcoming.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
Black Buck
Legends and Lattes
The bonds that tie series by J.Bree
Lights out by Navessa Allen
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River Sing me Home
The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation is a must read for any parent or educator.
it’s been really good so far!! 🔥 i was recommended to read it awhile back on booktok. i wish i could thank them for the recommendation, but i forgot to bookmark the video 😭
📚Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
📚Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
📚Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
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The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Trying to Kill the Sun by TF Author
These are a few of my favorites from last year.
-The Brides of High Hill, the latest in Nghi Vo's Singing Hills series
-A Psalm for the Wild Built, by Becky Chambers
-Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao
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The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
Factory Girls —Michelle Gallen
-Landbridge: [life in fragments] by Y-Dang Troeung
-Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, by Angela Davis
-What My Bones Know: A memoir for healing from complex trauma, by Stephanie Foo
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I just finished the Edge of Darkness Trilogy by Leigh Rivers
Before that I finished the Web of Silence Duet by Leigh Rivers
1. Fourth Wing
2. Iron Flame
3. ACOTAR
(2) The Parable Series by Octavia Butler
(3) The Burning Series (Rage of Dragons & Fires of Vengeance) by Evan Winter
Bonus One: Babel by RF. Kuang
Extraordinary Life Of Sam Hill
The Woman They Could Not Silence
Strange Sally Diamond
📚 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
📚 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mendel
📚 Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl Gonzales
But there were truly so many really enjoyable reads last year! 💙📚💙
Malice by john gwynne
Morning star (red rising book 3) by pierce brown.
The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi
This one was my favorite. I'm gonna be obsessed with this queer fantasy for a while
Helen House by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Short horror but with incredibly gripping personality
Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
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Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Things We Leave Unfinished
Three is hard! It was hard enough to pick my top 10 for last year :)
That Sik Luv-Jescie Hall
Nothing But Blackened Teeth-Cassandra Khaw