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The most beautiful book collection I have ever seen in my life, posted on r/bookshelf by u/xray_anonymous.

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Do you have the Libby library app?

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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December is Disability Awareness Month, and so here are some great books with disabled leads. There's contemporary, fantasy, graphic novels, and two pages for historicals because we all know I can't restrain myself when it comes to them.

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away these 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 21 December 2024. Good luck!

Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here.

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I think libraries are hindered in their ability to reach a wider audience by....themselves. Libraries' social media team can't sit you down and say, hey, look at me. We don't keep your data. You fill out an application and that information goes in our database and it's only ever accessed when you lose a book or something and we have to send you a notice. That information does not leave our database. There's no third parties or cookies or analytics. It's just your name and your contact info in the digital equivalent of a filing cabinet. Your data and your privacy is your own.

But I can. I can say that.

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aro & ace books: with internal illustrations!

Don’t Let The Forest In - YA horror - ace MC - internal/cover art by Jana Heidersdorf

The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt - NA dark fantasy - aroace MC/SC - internal art by Andrew Garin

In The Jaws of an Oak - adult horror/erotica novella - internal/cover art by author

Elatsoe - YA paranormal - aro coded ace MC - internal/cover art by Rovina Cai

Little Thieves - YA fantasy - demi MC/LI - internal art by author

Every Heart A Doorway - NA fantasy novella - ace MC - internal art by Rovina Cai

Fallen Thorns - NA urban fantasy - aroace MC (& SC) - internal/cover art by author

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

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Happy trans awareness week! Allow me to make you aware of these trans bisexuals

Books listed:

Hugged by Verity Ritchie

Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

Minuet by A.M. Leibowitz

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin

Foxhunt (Foxhunt, #1) by Rem Wigmore

The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard

Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

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aro & ace books: nonbinary YA/MG

MCs:

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - acespec MC

Asking For A Friend - ace MC

Godly Heathens - demiromantic MC

Dear Wendy - 1/2 aroace MCs

side characters/love interests

Tell Me How It Ends - arospec ace major character, he/they

Heartbreak Bakery - demi love interest

The Lost Coast - greyace major character

Meet Cute Diary - ace love interest

Aces Wild - ace love interest

The Mariah Mission - ace love interest

In The Ravenous Dark - ace major character

Fire Becomes Her - ace QPR-LI

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

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Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge hosted by  Just One More Page

September 2nd: Currently reading

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Just curious, what tags are people using when they post bookish pictures? I’ve started using #book photography, but since I also go through it regularly I know it’s not nearly as active as you’d think. I want to find your pictures and reblog them!

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🌈 It’s #TransYouthDay Rainbow Readers! In 2017, Trans Lifeline declared December 28th as Trans Youth Day: an annual holiday to celebrate trans youth, raise awareness and honor the memory of Leelah. To celebrate we have 28 books that feature trans youth from children’s books, middle grade to young adult books. Trans kids deserve to see their stories and celebrate themselves at all ages! 

What’s your favorite trans book? Drop us the title and author in the comments! Authors please feel free to self-promote your trans books in the comments!

Note: Because children’s books typically have size deviations compared to middle grade and YA, we took some creative liberties with the covers to make these graphics visually appealing. All full titles and author names will be in the comments. 

Books listed above their respective graphics.

ID: A post of eight slides. All slides have the background of a horizontal transgender Pride flag. It has five stripes: blue, pink, white, pink, blue. An opaque white square with a thin outline is overlaid. The first slide says “28 trans books for trans youth day”. The 28 is in the colors of the trans flag and the words alternate to resemble a trans flag. Slides 2-8 have four book covers in two rows of two each. End ID.

Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings

Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

Wandering Son by Shimura Takako

Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 

The Pants Project by Cat Clarke

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

My Rainbow by Trinity & DeShanna Neal

Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Just Happy to be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons

Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore & Elliott McLemore

Ciel by Sophie Labelle

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Ez Symes-Smith

The Queer Girl is Going to be Okay by Dale Walls

From the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea by Kai Cheng Thom

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff

Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker

What Makes You Beautiful by Bridget Liang

Calvin by J.R. & Vanessa Ford

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley & Lisa Bunker

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson

The Mutantsitters Club by SJ Whitby 

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part 2 of the 2023 version of this post: young adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

aces wild by amanda dewitt

the chandler legacies by abdi nazemian

bruised by tanya boteju

juliet takes a breath by gabby rivera

picture us in the light by kelly loy gilbert

when we were magic by sarah gailey

iron widow by xiran jay zhao

the rise of kyoshi by f.c. yee

jane unlimited by kristin cashore

summer of salt by katrina leno

the wicker king by k. ancrum

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

wilder girls by rory power

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

her royal highness by rachel hawkins

tell me how you really feel by aminah mae safi

the weight of the stars by k. ancrum

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

the grief keeper by alexandra villasante

crier's war by nina varela

how to excavate a heart by jake maia arlow

imogen, obviously by becky albertalli

in other lands by sarah rees brennan

carry on by rainbow rowell

cemetery boys by aiden thomas

felix ever after by kacen callendar

i wish you all the best by mason deaver

little thieves by margaret owen

technically you started it by lana wood johnson

the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

the infinite noise by lauren shippen

bonds of brass by emily skrutskie

the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

what if it's us by becky albertalli and adam silvera

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz

like a love story by abdi nazemian

different for boys by patrick ness

history is all you left me by adam silvera

twelfth grade night by molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, and jamie green

across a field of starlight by blue delliquanti

heartstopper by alice oseman

check, please! by ngozi ukazu

bloom by kevin panetta and savanna ganucheau

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki and rosemary valero-o'connell

the princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by deya muniz

if you'll have me by eunnie

on a sunbeam by tillie walden

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag

always human by ari north

rust in the root by justina ireland

dread nation by justina ireland

pet by awkwaeke emezi

the darkest part of the forest by holly black

elatsoe by darcie little badger

i was born for this by alice oseman

loveless by alice oseman

i hate everyone but you by gaby dunn and allison raskin

you know me well by nina lacour and david levithan

the black flamingo by dean atta

spinning by tillie walden

dreadnought by april daniels

a lesson in vengeance by victoria lee

all the bad apples by moira fowley-doyle

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

summer bird blue by akemi dawn bowman

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

we are okay by nina lacour

radio silence by alice oseman

we used to be friends by amy spalding

a neon darkness by lauren shippen

i hope you get this message by farah naz rishi

are you listening? by tillie walden

alone in space by tillie walden

all out edited by saundra mitchell

out now edited by saundra mitchell

out there edited by saundra mitchell

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TOR WRAPPED 2023

Books for every Spotify Wrapped listener class! 

VAMPIRE

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Mordew by Alex Pheby

HYPNOTIST

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

ALCHEMIST

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

SHAPESHIFTER

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

FANATIC

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

TIME TRAVELER

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

MASTERMIND

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Exadelic by Jon Evans

COLLECTOR

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan