#A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee

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"There is no one reason why a particular romance novel hasn’t been widely discovered, but budget, bias, and luck play a role. Independent romance authors often have to market their books entirely out of pocket and online. Without placement in most bookstores, indie authors rely on self-funded and self-run social media campaigns. Even when romance authors secure a traditional publishing deal, marketing budgets are not guaranteed. Although more bookstores might stock their books, they are also largely in charge of marketing their romance books online.

Bias also comes into play. Marginalized authors are often under added pressure to give their books a broader (i.e., whiter, straighter, etc.) appeal. It is easy for a publisher to point to a book’s potentially limited appeal as a reason behind a limited marketing budget.

Then, if a romance book does have a marketing budget and hasn’t had any issues with bias at any point in the publishing process, a certain amount of luck still factors in. Hitting the right audience at the right time and taking off is no easy task.

That is to say, it can be difficult for romance books to find a platform, so there is every chance these are the best romance books you haven’t read. To narrow down my list, I sorted my Goodreads books to show books with the least number of ratings and selected every romance novel under 500 ratings. I then narrowed that list down to nine books."

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Dear Gentle Reader, can't get enough Bridgerton? Think it would be better if we'd just admit Eloise is sapphic? Fear not! These ladies loving ladies have just the thing... A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A decadent butch lesbian in a lavender marriage seeks out the aid of a straight-laced, bluestocking doctor for a friend. It's just business...until it isn't!

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lord Marleigh died at Waterloo and like a phoenix, Viola Carroll rose from the ashes to spread her wings. Now she's home, but does she dare trust her old friend, the Duke of Gracewood, with her heart and her true self?

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Marriage is a lady's only preservative from want. Imagine the scandal if one fell for her best friend! There is no future there...unless the two of you can make a match between your newly-single parents.

Infamous by Lex Croucher ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Edith "Eddie" and Rose have been best friends since childhood. But after their debutante ball, Rose is talking about marriage while Eddie can't imagine anything but being a famous writer. When a curious invitation from scandalous poet Nash Nicholson brings Eddie and Rose to an eccentric, hedonistic house party...will it be the end of their friendship or the start of something more?

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Fave Five: Victorian F/F Romance

A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger (PNR) Hen Fever by Olivia Waite Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan Bonus: While not technically Victorian itself, An Island Princess Stars a Scandal by Adriana Herrera is set in Paris during that era

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Lucky Lovers of London by Jess Everlee

A truly delightful series of dual-pov queer period romances. I devoured all three of these books in a matter of days, though A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence was BY FAR my favourite. There is gorgeous representation and steamy love stories and all three are decidedly different, though they take place in the same universe. I hope the author continues to write, because there are many side characters among the stories whom I would love to get to know more.

In terms of representation, there is cross-dressing and gay and bi characters, trans characters and sapphics. There's lavender marriages and unconventional relationships and found family, too. You don't need to read one to read the others, though all the characters live in each other's stories, so some chronology might be off if you read them in a different order.

Vices is quite steamy and quite a bit more bdsm in the sex scenes than the other two, a man meets the author of his favourite illicit novel and, well, you know.

Rogues is a friends-to-lovers, ripe with both characters making assumptions (and making arses of themselves), and it spans decades, often switching between the past and the present to add context.

Decadence is a chance meeting between two unlikely women, more alike and complementary than they might seem at first.

Highly recommend them all, 4.5/5 ⭐️ across the board.

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out June 2024

🩷 There's something especially sweet about a sapphic romance. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in June 2024. Which ones are you adding to your ever-growing TBR?

💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson 💖 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart 💖 Pony Dakota - Nat Burns 💖 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin 💖 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke 💖 London on My Mind - Clara Alves, Nina Perrotta (translator) 💖 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab 💖 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💖 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💖 Pages from the Book of Broken Dreams - Kat Jackson 💖 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 💖 Furious - Jamie Pacton, Rebecca Podos 💖 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💖 Tehrangeles - Porochista Khakpour 💖 Women - Chloe Caldwell 💖 Experienced - Kate Young 💖 Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni

Paranormal/Horror 💖 The Pecan Children - Quinn Connor 💖 Private Rites - Julia Armfield 💖 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💖 The Science of Ghosts - Lilah Sturges, El Garing (ill.), Alitha Martinez (contrib.) 💖 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi

Fantasy 💖 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💖 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💖 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis 💖 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba 💖 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💖 Sleep Like Death - Kalynn Bayron 💖 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez 💖 The Pale Queen - Ethan M. Aldridge 💖 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💖 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💖 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier

Historical 💖 A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 💖 A Divine Fury - D.V. Bishop 💖 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💖 Hall of Mirrors - John Copenhaver

Mystery/Thriller 💖 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💖 The Last Note of Warning - Katharine Schellman 💖 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💖 And Then There Was One - Michele Castleman

Sci-Fi 💖 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow 💖 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💖 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💖 You're Safe Here - Leslie Stephens

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For the book asks:

1, 3, 9

1. How many books did you read this year?

as of today, 108… i have a bunch with me and wanted to knock out a couple more but idk if i’ll get them in

3. What were your top five (6) books of the year?

my 5-stars this year were:

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

You, with a View by Jessica Joyce

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee

A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell

9. Did you get into any new genres?

it’s not really a new genre per se but i’m getting back into fantasy stuff again

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2024 Book List

This was a great reading year, another 55 books read!

T.Kingfisher was my most read author at 10 books, with Alexis Hall in at 4. I look forward to reading more from both of these authors in the new year, as well as many others.

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen Tricia Levenseller 

Ducks: Two years in the Oil Sands Kate Beaton  

10 Things That Never Happened Alexis Hall

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love Lex Croucher  

Prairie Fire: The Story of Owen #2 Emily Kate Johnston  

The Cloisters Katy Hays

Gods Behaving Badly Marie Phillips

The Storm of Life: The Brilliant Death #2 A.R. Capetta

Iron & Velvet: Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #1 Alexis Hall

Cursed: An Anthology

Just Stab Me Now Jill Bearup

Lost in the Moment and Found: Wayward Children #8 Seanan McGuire  

Something Fabulous Alexis Hall

The Immortals: Olympus Bound #1Jordanna Max Brodsky

The Queen and the Knave: Dread Penny Society #5 Sarah M. Eden

Winter of the Gods: Olympus Bound #2 Jordanna Max Brodsky

Divine Rivals: Letters of Enchantment #1Rebecca Ross

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known: Wayward Children #9 Seanan McGuire

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands: Emily Wilde #2 Heather Fawcett

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher

Our Hideous Progeny C.E. McGill

A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch: Glimmer Falls #2 Sarah Hawley

The Gentleman's Book of Vices: Lucky Lovers of London #1 Jess Everlee

Olympus Bound: Olympus Bound #3 Jordanna Max Brodsky

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues: Lucky Lovers of London #2 Jess Everlee

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend: Mischief & Matchmaking #1Emma R. Alban

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune Keith Thomson

A Spindle Splintered: Fractured Fables #1 Alix E. Harrow

The Briar Book of the Dead A.G. Slatter

A Mirror Mended: Fractured Fables #2 Alix E. Harrow

 Ruthless Vows: Letters of Enchantment #2 Rebecca Ross

Atalanta Jennifer Saint  

Paladin's Grace: Saint of Steel #1 T. Kingfisher

Paladin's Strength: Saint of Steel #2 T. Kingfisher

Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree

Paladin's Hope: Saint of Steel #3 T. Kingfisher

Clockwork Boys: Clocktaur War #1 T. Kingfisher

Kith & Kin Marieke Nijkamp

Paladin's Faith: Saint of Steel #4 T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine: Clocktaur War #2 T. Kingfisher

What Moves the Dead: Sworn Soldier #1T. Kingfisher

Bride Ali Hazelwood

Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree

Mountains Made of Glass Scarlett St. Clair  

Swordheart T. Kingfisher

Dreadful Caitlin Rozakis

What Feasts at Night: Sworn Soldier #2 T. Kingfisher

You're the Problem, It's You: Mischief & Matchmaking #2 Emma R. Alban

Confounding Oaths: Mortal Follies #2 Alexis Hall

A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence: Lucky Lovers of London #3 Jess Everlee

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caduceus Clay

The Nightmare Before Kissmas: Royals and Romance #1 Sara Raasch  My Roommate Is a Vampire Jenna Levine

The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi

What Doesn't Break Cassandra Khaw

Please take them as recommendations, or if you have read any of the same books come talk about them with me! Reminder you can also follow me on The Storygraph to see what I am reading in real time, where I am simply shy_fairy

Previous Years Reading lists can be found here: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

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ARC Review of A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee

Rating: 3.75/5 Heat Level: 2/5 Publication Date: June 4th

Premise:

It's 1885; Jo Smith is in a lavender marriage but is determined to be helpful to her husband's newly-pregnant girlfriend, worried that her husband will divorce her. She finds, then falls for Dr. Emily Clarke, who she seeks out to help them when most other doctors refuse to treat an unmarried, pregnant woman.

My review:

This was a sweet, sapphic grumpy/sunshine historical romance that reminded me quite a lot of Cat Sebastian's writing style in the way the plot becomes more of a character study and interpersonal conflict rather than anything much external, and the main characters seem to delight in the absurd.

What really struck me was despite the cartoon cover and the dry humor that carries throughout, this book is *quite* serious and that feels immediately apparent. Both Emily and Jo are dissatisfied with their lives in a way you feel weighs on them and comes across in every action they take. Even Jo's relative lightheartedness belies a deep fear that the life she built for herself as a queer woman in a lavender marriage and a printer will be destroyed by a husband who might not want his child to live with the stigma of illegitimacy, and therefore he could divorce Jo to marry his girlfriend. And the thing is, her husband isn't a malicious person at all— he's easy-going but naive enough to suddenly change his mind without considering the ramifications for Jo.

Emily, on the other hand, is all grim earnestness and duty (very nuch the bluestocking of the title). She is determined to have a career as good as any male doctor's; Interestingly, a part of that is refusing to go into obstetrics, a field she feels pigeonholed into as a female doctor, thus her initial refusal to help Jo and co. And that's tough to stomach as a reader— both women are radical in ways that don't line up as easily as you may assume, and that's much of the conflict between them.

That being said, Emily and Jo get together around midway through the book after a cute epistolary courtship and setting most of their differences aside. What follows is the slow process of them making space for each other in their lives and creating a found family between themselves— re-found in some senses after coming to better understandings with their respective, supportive family members.

The sex:

There is an on-page masturbation scene (with a toy!), and while we see kissing and some of the build-up to sex, the actual sex scenes are either less descriptive or glossed over. That doesn't mean we don't see them, they're just written in a way that is less explicit, if that makes sense.

Overall:

There is a lot I appreciated about this book— the portrayal of a vibrant queer community, the politics of prenatal care and how discriminatory it was in the nineteenth century that feels very pointed to our current situation here in the United States, as well as the anti-censorship themes. The romance itself was sweet and quite tender, though I wish there was more conflict overall because to me, most of it fell away around midway save one situation but even that was far less dramatic than I would have imagined. While this book was not for me, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a softer, more introspective sapphic historical romance.

Thank you to Harlequin and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Reading with pride isn't just for June...keep choosing LGBTQIA+ books today and every day 🏳️‍🌈

[lgbtqreads]

Hi! Do you know of any books with lavender marriages or LGBT people in platonic marriages/relationships? I've been struggling to find anything, thanks!

So I am not super helpful with contemporary lavender marriages, but in historical, check out A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee, and coming up, The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf by Isa Arsen (1/7/25) and Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith (2/4/25).

For books with queerplatonic partnerships, here’s the list I have on the site right now, but a caveat that they’re not always the endgame relationship, like IIRC in the Kann YA, the MC (who’s ace) leaves a QPR for a romantic relationship. I might be wrong - it’s been a while - but that’s my recollection. 

Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

Journey Home by May Barros

Seafoam and Silence by S.L. Dove Cooper

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (YA)

Go Truck Yourself by J.R. Hart

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (YA)

If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann (YA)

Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor (YA)

The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen

The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

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JOMP BPC || May 31 || Read In May:

Tim Drake: Robin Vol.2 A Case of Chaos by Meghan Fitzmartin ★★★★

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill ★★★★★

The Ancient One by T. A. Barron ★★★ [RR]

Working On A Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell ★★★★★ [RR]

Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman ★★★★

Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo ★★★★

Weirdos From Another Planet by Bill Watterson ★★★★★

A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett ★★★★

Art Matters by Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell ★★★★★

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch ★★★

A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee ★★★

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 7 by Naoko Takeuchi ★★★★

In A Dress Made of Butterflies by Sandra Lee Stillwell ★★★ [RR]

Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke ★★★

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher ★★★★★

Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth ★★

[lgbtqreads]

I just read Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley and loved it! Do you have any recs for similar books? (the vibe is lighthearted lesbian historical romance)

Check out Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban, An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera, and A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee!

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in June 2024

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy Pride Month!! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ The Shadow of Summer - Marlon Yelich 🧡 Of Stardust - (ed) Avrah C. Baren 💛 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💚 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💙 Same Difference - E.J. Copperman 💜 The Pull of the Tide - Various ❤️ The Misadventures of Getting Lainey a Date - Eija Jimenez 🧡 Surface Pressure - Adrian J. Smith & Neen Cohen 💛 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💙 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💜 One and Done - Frederick Smith 🌈 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis

❤️ She Who Brought the Storm - Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea 🧡 Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights - James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler 💛 London on My Mind - Clara Alves (translated by Nina Perrotta) 💚 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💙 Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos 💜 Gay the Pray Away - Natalie Naudus ❤️ Such A Small World - Jordan Clayden-Lewis 🧡 Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner - CeCé Telfer 💛 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💙 We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer 💜 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 🌈 The Curse of the Goddess - C.C. González

❤️ The Schoolmaster - Jessica Tvordi 🧡 Cigarette Lemonade - Connor de Bruler 💛 Coil of Boughs - Penny Moss 💚 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💙 Asking for a Friend - Ronnie Riley 💜 Pleasure Principle - Madeleine Cravens ❤️ Perfect Revenge - Jessica Burkhart 🧡 Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli 💛 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💙 Queer Art - Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💜 Morally Straight - Mike De Socio 🌈 Our Bodies Electric - Zackary Vernon

❤️ Love Is All - Various 🧡 Becoming Ted - Matt Cain 💛 Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris 💚 Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones 💙 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke ❤️ Hot Hires - Nan Campbell, Alaina Erdell, Jesse J. Thoma 🧡 Lord of the Empty Isles - Jules Arbeaux 💛 Kissing Girls on Shabbat - Sara Glass 💙 When You Smile - Melissa Brayden 💜 We Could Be Heroes - Philip Ellis 🌈 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson

❤️ A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 🧡 Take All of Us - Natalie Leif 💛 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💚 Why Are People Into That? - Tina Horn 💙 Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity - Jack Turban 💜 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow ❤️ Sea of Broken Glass - Jenna Pine 🧡 Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair - Ella McLeod 💛 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi 💙 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💜 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 🌈 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin

❤️ Act Two - Rochelle Wolf 🧡 Unexploded Remnants - Elaine Gallagher 💛 The Stars Want Blood - Morgan Lawson 💚 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson 💙 Design of Darkness - R.D. Pires 💜 Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ❤️ Meet Me in the Sky - Jeffrey K. Davenport 🧡 A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell 💛 The Lions' Den - Iris Mwanza 💙 Under the Dragon Moon - Mawce Hanlin 💜 A Sea of Wolves - Sarah Street 🌈 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba

❤️ Private Rites - Julia Armfield 🧡 Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous - Mae Marvel 💛 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💚 Keeping Carmen Ruiz - Alyson Root 💙 Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin 💜 Heartwaves - Anita Kelly ❤️ Bound to the Wild Fae - Tavia Lark 🧡 Four Squares - Bobby Finger 💛 The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter 💙 Poison in Their Hearts - Laura Sebastian 💜 Puppy Love - Elle Sprinkle 🌈 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart

❤️ Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni 🧡 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz 💛 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier 💚 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💙 PROUD - Anthology 💜 Little Rot - Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ Fling - Deja Elise 🧡 Too Many Stars to Count - Frances M. Thompson 💛 Rakesfall - Vajra Chandrasekera 💙 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 Freakslaw - Jane Flett 🌈 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab

❤️ A Sense of Shifting - Coco Romack, Yael Malka 🧡 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💛 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 💚 Hide No More - Rita Potter 💙 Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland 💜 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez ❤️ Her, Him & I - Christian Weissmann 🧡 The Sons of El Rey - Alex Espinoza 💛 Show Me Your Teeth - Amy Marsden 💙 Defeating Demons and Breaking Up With My Boyfriend - Dylan James 💜 For Real - Alexis Hall 🌈 The Clarity of Light - Jade Church

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out June 2024

🩷 There's something especially sweet about a sapphic romance. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in June 2024. Which ones are you adding to your ever-growing TBR?

💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson 💖 Hot Summer - Elle Everhart 💖 Pony Dakota - Nat Burns 💖 Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin 💖 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke 💖 London on My Mind - Clara Alves, Nina Perrotta (translator) 💖 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me - Alana Saab 💖 Looking for a Sign - Susie Dumond 💖 Triple Sec - T.J. Alexander 💖 Pages from the Book of Broken Dreams - Kat Jackson 💖 Director's Cut - Carlyn Greenwald 💖 Furious - Jamie Pacton, Rebecca Podos 💖 Cicada Summer - Erica McKeen 💖 Tehrangeles - Porochista Khakpour 💖 Women - Chloe Caldwell 💖 Experienced - Kate Young 💖 Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme - Mari SanGiovanni

Paranormal/Horror 💖 The Pecan Children - Quinn Connor 💖 Private Rites - Julia Armfield 💖 The Deep Dark - Molly Knox Ostertag 💖 The Science of Ghosts - Lilah Sturges, El Garing (ill.), Alitha Martinez (contrib.) 💖 Wolfpitch - Balazs Lorinczi

Fantasy 💖 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💖 The Fire Within Them - Matthew Ward 💖 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis 💖 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba 💖 Markless - C.G. Malburi 💖 Sleep Like Death - Kalynn Bayron 💖 The Afterlife of Mal Caldera - Nadi Reed Perez 💖 The Pale Queen - Ethan M. Aldridge 💖 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💖 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💖 Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier

Historical 💖 A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence - Jess Everlee 💖 A Divine Fury - D.V. Bishop 💖 The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye - Briony Cameron 💖 Hall of Mirrors - John Copenhaver

Mystery/Thriller 💖 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans 💖 The Last Note of Warning - Katharine Schellman 💖 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💖 And Then There Was One - Michele Castleman

Sci-Fi 💖 Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow 💖 The Stars Too Fondly - Emily Hamilton 💖 Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee 💖 You're Safe Here - Leslie Stephens

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A Weekly Reading Journal 5.12.24

Whoops I skipped a week and didn't realize until now. I have not been skipping my reading however, so onto the details!!!

Currently Reading:

Fiction:

A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

Capture the Colors by Elena Berrino [K]

A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee [ARC]

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett

Poetry:

The Book of Songs translated by Arthur Waley

Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

In a Dress Made of Butterflies by Sandra Lee Stillwell [RR]

Nonfiction:

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Graphic Novels:

Weirdos from Another Planet! by Bill Watterson

Just Finished:

Guardian Vol.1 by Priest ★★★★

Tim Drake: Robin Vol.2 A Case of Chaos by Meghan Fitzmartin ★★★★

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill ★★★★★

The Ancient One by T. A. Barron ★★★ [RR]

Working On A Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell ★★★★★ [RR]

Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman ★★★★

Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo ★★★★

General Reading Thoughts:

Slowly but surely making my way through several fiction reads and tearing my way through poetry and nonfiction. Normally it's the other way around so this makes for a interesting reading experience!

Happy Reading!!!

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