#PLEASE GIVE ME BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

[chaeilay]

it's so cold today that i feel like i'm unintentionally cosplaying richard papen with pneumonia and chronic hypothermia

[spiderboa]

would love to post book theories and opinions more but i dont read anything anymore….

[achilleabee]

mfs when

"we accept the love we think we deserve"

"love is being willing to ruin your good painting at the chance at a great one"

"but do you like me?"

"sometimes, you just have to let people love you"

"this isn't normal. this isnt how life is supposed to feel"

"i know ill never be an ordinary kid."

"maybe i do just ruin people's lives"

"incase i dont see you; good afternoon, good evening and goodnight"

"but they'll never know how tragic and boring and insecure you really are, or how high school was the best your life was ever going to get"

"in the end, he was not Nina or Matthias or Kaz or Inej or Jesper. he was just Wylan Van Eck. he told them everything."

"he didnt make jinx. you did"

"i dont know whats scarier. the fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart, or that sometimes, i just wanna let 'em"

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

While i'm finishing Thrawn: Alliances..

Can people reblog with other star wars book recommendations please :)

[oflgtfol]

anyway, i’m leaving for my upstate eclipse trip on friday morning. gonna be about 8-10 hours in the car all by myself. i desperately need entertainment to occupy me during it. can i PLEASE get some music recommendations so i can check it out during the drive

[meganmarshall]

Give me book recs with Welsh characters pls and thanks xoxo Thinking about 12 years old me’s reaction to reading Welsh Will Herondale in The Infernal Devices for the first and needed that dopamine hit again lol

[the-busy-ghost]

Me normally: Let people love what they love

Me, after a Test Match Special commentator expresses their belief that the new All Creatures Great and Small is somehow "better" than the 1978 version: This is pure insanity and TMS can no longer be trusted on anything, how can they even be trusted to know about cricket, do they have no TASTE

[nevermoorfan6789]

what should I read after I’m done with the Percy Jackson universe?

I’m taking recommendations for what book series to read next.

I like Nevermoor, Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson universe, what should I read next? I was thinking maybe the hunger games or miss peregrines home for peculiar children, but I’d like some more options. Please leave some recommendations ( preferably fantasy series )

[sammoose22]

Anyone have any fantasy book recommendations? I have read and loved ACOTAR a whole lot but now I’m setting all the books to that standard and they just don’t meet expectations anymore.

I just love the plot and the romance of ACOTAR, just love that it doesn’t focus on just one or the other.

So any good recommendations?

[divinesymmetry]

Pride Month list part 2: book edition

I read a lot (and I mean a lot) of queer books, especially during my YA phase ages 15-17, but here are a few that have particularly stood out to me, and why you should read them:

Maurice by E.M. Forster (published posthumously in 1971): everything you'd want from an early 20th century romance, except it's gay, and arguably the best piece of 20th century queer literature

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019): absolutely heartwrenching, will have you gasping for air in between sobs, and it's written by a poet so you KNOW the prose is amazing

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (2022): set in 1990s Glasgow, will absolutely rip your heart out and tear it to shreds

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (2021): 1950s lesbian coming of age during the red scare, need I say more?

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black (2022): written in the form of letters, from a Black father to his gay son

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (2020): for some reason, no one seems to have read this, and they absolutely should have. will, once again, leave you in sobs (I am beginning to suspect I might cry easily)

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (2022): another underhyped one, about race and sexuality during the AIDS crisis

Un Garçon d'Italie by Philippe Besson (2003): one of the narrators is literally a rotting corpse, that should be intriguing enough

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964), Confusion by Stefan Zweig (1927), Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973) and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) because, if you're like me, you're desparate to find queer literature from before the 1990s

Angels in America by Tony Kushner (1993), much quicker to read than to watch though, unfortunately, you do not have Andrew Garfield as Prior Walter in the written version

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abiké-Iyimidé (2021) starts with a quote from Get Out and that tells you everything you need to know

Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon (2019) is surprisingly rich for YA, exploring homosexuality in the 1970s, conversion therapy and Native American identity

Crush by Richard Siken (2005) if you're more into poetry, particularly the kind that will bring you physical and emotional pain

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (1986) because you can't not read Alison Bechdel

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (2021), The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver (2022), and She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (2021) are the perfect romcoms if you want to switch your brain off for a few hours (or emotionally recover from half of the other books on this list)

For the similar list I made about movies, click here

Happy Pride!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[leninisms]

real-life activism is so much more enjoyable than internet activism btw. if you’ve only ever engaged in political/social activism online, i really recommend trying to find a real organization and getting involved in-person if you can

[aforeffortenjolras]

i absolutely cannot wait to be done with school and be able to enjoy reading again

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Please recommend me high fantasy stories that do NOT have an European and/or medieval inspired setting and do NOT include preexisting fantasy races (orcs, elves, halflings, Dwarves, goblins etc).

[vagueconfusion]

Is my blog the kind of place where posting about cannibalism and specifically what the breasts of men taste like is appreciated? No clue, but it's an interesting passage so I'm putting it here anyways

[eva-eyre]

give me book recommendations and i will love you forever

[krakerlak]

I used to mainly buy books to never read them but lo and behold now i want to read them too??? who am i??