#(noelle brian jenkins etc)

[anistarrose]

slowly realizing years late that The Crystal Kingdom was about our three surly boys meeting a series of undead spirits, who would sometimes literally show them visions and consistently try to get them to change their ways, whether that meant remembering their true pasts, uprooting the present order of life and death, or simply not dying quite so often in the future... and that it was all fucking set on Candlenights. they literally met the Ghosts of Candlenights Past, Candlenights Present, and Candlenights Yet to Come. like did Griffin do that even remotely on purpose because if so, I'm absolutely fuming

[booksociety]

Book Society presents its June reading event! The members have selected Out of the Ordinary as the theme and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid as the optional book of the month. We invite you to step outside the box and pick up books that are different or unique in some way. They can be unusual in format, narration, premise, etc. where elements on the page or in the story would not be expected in a typical book. This event is open to everyone, not just our members.

✧ how to participate:

optional: reblog this post; check out our network and members

read (or reread) either The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (adult, historical, romance, lgbt+; 391 pages) or a book of your choice that fits this month’s theme

share what book you’ve chosen, thoughts, reactions, and/or creations

use the tag #booksociety in your posts, and include “@booksociety’s Out of the Ordinary Event: [insert book title here]” in the description of your creations

the event starts on June 1 and ends on June 30

✧ reading recommendations (under the cut):

format

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (adult, historical; 355 pages)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (classic, horror, fantasy; 488 pages)

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill (short stories, poetry, fantasy, retelling; 176 pages)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (adult, mystery, thriller, horror; 709 pages)

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (adult, mystery, dark academia; 368 pages)

Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (young adult, scifi; 602 pages)

Night Film by Marisha Pessl (adult, mystery, thriller; 640 pages)

My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris (romance, historical, humour; 352 pages)

Replica (Replica #1) by Lauren Oliver (young adult, scifi; 520 pages)

Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North (romance, historical, humour; 400 pages)

S. by J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst (adult, mystery, fantasy; 456 pages)

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel (adult, scifi, mystery, thriller; 320 pages)

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) by Patrick Ness (young adult, scifi, dystopia; 479 pages)

The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan (young adult, poetry, romance; 211 pages)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (young adult, contemporary, romance; 231 pages)

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (young adult, contemporary, poetry; 361 pages)

The Slant Book by Peter Newell (children, poetry; 56 pages)

Verity by Colleen Hoover (thriller, romance; 333 pages)

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (young adult, historical; 640 pages)

5 to 1 (5 to 1 #1) by Holly Bodger (young adult, scifi, dystopia; 244 pages)

narration

Atonement by Ian McEwan (classic, historical, romance; 351 pages)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (fantasy, scifi, historical; 509 pages)

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (young adult, scifi, fantasy; 464 pages)

Rhapsodic (The Bargainer #1) by Laura Thalassa (new adult, romance, fantasy; 417 pages)

Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Tahereh Mafi (young adult, scifi, romance; 338 pages)

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (classic, scifi; 275 pages)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (young adult, historical, classic; 552 pages)

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (classic, historical, romance; 470 pages)

premise & plot

Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1) by Justina Ireland (young adult, historical, fantasy, horror; 455 pages)

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire (young adult, fantasy, mystery; 173 pages)

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (adult, contemporary, thriller, mystery; 226 pages)

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (adult, contemporary, mystery; 288 pages)

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (graphic novel, fantasy; 272 pages)

Pivot Point (Pivot Point #1) by Kasie West (young adult, scifi, fantasy; 343 pages)

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (adult, historical, romance, paranormal; 390 pages)

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (adult, historical, retelling, feminism; 198 pages)

The Power by Naomi Aldreman (adult, scifi, dystopia, feminism; 341 pages)

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (graphic novel, retelling, lgbt+; 277 pages)

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (young adult, contemporary, lgbt+; 373 pages)

Space Opera (Space Opera #1) by Catherynne M. Valente (adult, scifi, humour; 352 pages)

mixed & other

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman & Brendan Shusterman (young adult, contemporary, mental health; 320 pages)

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia (young adult, contemporary, romance, mental health; 385 pages)

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun (graphic novel, science fiction; 256 pages)

Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy #1) by Sally Green (young adult, fantasy; 380 pages)

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (adult, fabulism, slipstream; 467 pages)

Shadows of Asphodel (Shadows of Asphodel #1) by Karen Kincy (adult, romance, dieselpunk, paranormal; 350 pages)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (adult, historical, fantasy, romance; 387 pages)

The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic #1) by Amanda Lovelace (poetry, feminism; 156 pages)

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (scifi, romance, lgbt+; 209 pages)