To cope with *waves hands at state of the world*, I got a Kindle Unlimited subscription. A very kind member of my book club told me if I read at least 11 books per month, Amazon loses money on my subscription. #booksky, drop your best recs. Help me take money from Jeff Bezos's pocket.
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I also just read spark of the everflame. Very good.
Five broken blades.
Just a few… 😉
The Alchemist
Permission To Leap
The artists way
Women Who Run with Wolves
Joan - Katherine J Chen
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
The Scholomance series
Anything by Amanda Skenandore
Anything by Marie Benedict
Pulp fiction liberally laced with reality
Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
Take my Hand, Dolen Perkins Valdez
When We Were Mermaids, Barbara O’Neal
The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
The Beach Trees, Karen White (anything by Karen White)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DRYYCHDM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qxcjwqhv1NpnB5xKgxln_1bGDWxeCClY5itlRDSe5_67MtpHGqa27KGFiJ_QVwbjCj6GyfmSPXL-uzSh0pyFdXie8FeH1UVHkb34GSnvw_8yEcGYVwFdtkU6LhVLJQr9pbNHtU29nNfxveikv2BqfYfadxT2Z2DgW6xQcIbqDLlzIFQhBRZQmC3BQoTbpt6i4nbn7spbsvXgFVgi9SlSgw.iyOTmJ1mA4RLdr-WtChzVwsqrGX-gCP6nG01y7JCzk0&qid=1737384859&sr=8-1
Collected works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marcel Proust and Flannery O’Connor. All of Doris Lessing and Stephen King.
All Haruki M.
Come on. Get a little payback.
Mine: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kaurifish/author/B0D9TZMMHQ
Also, every Discworld book, all of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King.
Even better, find either niche authors you want to support but don't enjoy or terrible, boring books NO ONE enjoys, get enough people to all 'read' them, and Prime's auto-recs will either support indie authors or boring books driving people away from Amazon
A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab (personal favorite)
The Mind Inside by K.D. Lutte (self-plug)
If everyone drops KU, those authors lose their livelihood.
I get the “down with Amazon” sentiment, but this is more nuanced than you are making it out to be.
KF Breene
Shannon Meyer
Annette Marie
KN Banet
Elizabeth Hunter might still have a few on KU
Ilona Andrews has a few on KU
I mostly read from Kindle now so I can adjust the font. I’m all for sticking it to J. B.
https://geni.us/QBM01
Cate Baumer. It has some world-ending vibes as well, which might be fitting.
I knew I made a good decision by reading more on it this year 😎
If you like indie Scifi/Fantasy with romance, adventure, sword/sorcery, necromancers/monsters, reluctant hero MMC, genius-level FMC, blend of science/magic, and an epic battle of good vs. evil, you'll enjoy my book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP9Y37FN
Read on!
https://libro.fm/ and you don't get any fentanyl in your cut, bro
If you haven't discovered The Bonds That Tie series, it's a really good (smutty why choose) series
-A Darker Shade of Magic ( book 1 of a trilogy trilogy and all three are on KU) by V. E. Schwab
-One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (book 1 of a duology both on KU)