#Ry Herman

[lgbtqreads]

January 2025 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Candas Jane Dorsey‘s (AT THE) FREAK SHOW, a literary speculative novel exploring the fluidity of gender identity by telling the life story of a non-binary rock star who was the lone survivor of an operation to separate conjoined twins at birth, to University of Calgary Press (world English). Continue reading January 2025 Deal Announcements

[judgingbooksbycovers]

This Princess Kills Monsters: The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister

By Ry Herman.

[raemeh]

Ok I made a playlist for each dndads generation as different crane wives songs

And the list of each dndads character as each song

(edit: hey I did the same thing again but with the happy fits)

Grandparents - Steady, Steady 

Hildy Russet - Hole in the silver lining  Stud Stampler - Canary in a coal mine  Robert Wilson - Ribs Meryl Streep - Hard Sell

Omega dads - Metaphor 

Willy Stampler - Curses  Frank Wilson - Know how  Bill Close- Allies or Enemies  Bar Ry’ Oak - The Wolf 

Dads - Keep you safe 

Henry Oak - The Moon will Sing  Glenn Close - Strangler Fig  Ron Stampler - Nothing at all Darryl Wilson - Naked, the Night falls  Jodie Foster - Unraveling 

Kiddads - Rockslide 

Terry Stampler - I talk in my sleep  Sparrow Swallows-Oak-Garcia - Icarus  Lark Oak-Garcia - Queen of Nothing  Nicky Foster - Easier  Grant Wilson - Shallow River 

Teens - Once & For All 

Lincoln Li-Wilson - Show your Fangs  Herman Unworthy - Tongues and Teeth  Scary Marlowe - Back to the Ground  Normal Swallows-Oak-Garcia - How to Rest  Taylor Swift - Daydreamer (live)

[demonicbaby666]

I SOS texted her for you 😂 she just gave me the authors, apparently each of them have more then 1 queer romance book published or being published this summer 😅

Ry Herman

Ashley Herring Blake

Meryl Wilsner

Melissa Lenhardt

I hope these are helpful for you and many others on the hunt ❤️

ICON! THANK YOU!!!!! SUPER HELPFUL!!! 💜

[kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate]

I've read 52 if we count books I'm currently reading (The Count of Monte Cristo and The Secret Garden). If we count books I've only read some of (The Bible) and series I only read part of (Ha*ry Po*ter, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare's works), then I've read 56

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Ha*ry Po*ter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[vyragosa]

ngl Herman fans can kinda annoy me … someone made the joke ‘Alva fucked Luca’s dad’ and everyone ran w it and acted like that was canon or sumthingg when everything is just all headcanon anyway… I used to think Alva was actually Luca’s dad bc of the way the fandom acts but … I really love alvaluca now n I genuinely can’t understand what’s wrong with it… Amyway i love your art keep it up <3 !! ur art always makes me smile (or tear up lol) have a good week :D

i was sincerely reluctant to give in and the only reasons i would hate past indifference a character or relationships are the fans, and they are beyond brilliant at proving themselves times and times again that their interest is born out of jealousy and not exploring a dynamic of their own ? why include luca in the joke in the first place right? it makes no sense if you like two people, you spend time thinking about them NOT THE THIRD PERSON ( at least build from the blocs given too and don't make it up so severely..?) but uh whatever whatever...no time for that

and thank you so much!!!!!! SOR RY I CAN'T HELP THE ANGST IT'S TO MAKE UP FOR TOO MUCH FLUFF...YOU TOO HAVE A GOOD WEEK

[lgbtqreads]

Do you know any sapphic vampires, werewolves, anything supernatural books you’ll recommend?

Yep, here are a few to start with!

Wild by Meghan O’Brien

Second Nature by Jae

The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood

Love Bites by Ry Herman

Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw

Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon

[rainingmusic]

Ry Cooder - Down in Hollywood

[good-books-to-read]

Thank you!

I’m tagging whoever wants to do it.

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse q. Sutanto

The Dryad Storm by Laurie Forest

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill

Dreamslinger by Graci Kim

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang

thank you to @impossiblelibrary and @aroaessidhe for tagging me to post a selection of 2025 books that I'm looking forward to :3

Another Life by Gayle Forman

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green (yes, that John Green)

All Shall Mourn by Ellie Marney

Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

We Can Never Leave by HE Edgmon

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Leaving the Station by Jake Maia Arlow

tagging anyone with an "O" in their URL 😘

[justanoutlawfic]

My ideal Storybrooke Sheriff Department:

Sheriff Emma Swan

Deputy Ry Mills

Officer Thomas Herman

Officer (Wish) Killian Jones

[roadtogracelandx45]

Charming Town|1| Sons of Anarchy

masterlist

@ohnoitsthebat @prettyinpayne @lovebarefootblonde @mrsnshelby88

This is my third time rewriting this story and it should be the last. it is also going to be cross posted on AO3

One 

Jackson Teller 

Flashed on the screen of Ryder Winston-Teller’s phone causing her to pick it up and silence it before she put it down on the desk again. For 4 months she had been ignoring his phone calls and text messages. Mostly out of spite, and mostly out of hurt. They hadn’t been apart for long with her taking a temporary position at a law firm in Tacoma and the crow eaters had wasted no time trying to get into his bed and trying to replace her. One had succeeded, one she had thought was her friend but it wasn’t.  The phone rang again and she pressed the side button silencing it before it could ring again. 

“You should talk to him.” Herman Kozik commented from where he was sitting on the leather couch, Harley, Ryder’s 2 year old daughter with Jax was sitting on his lap watching a cartoon on the spare laptop. “Koz,” She commented looking up from her own computer screen,  “Mind your business.” 

“Can’t sweetheart, that the mother charter’s vp and you are his old lady. And it's kind of my business.’  

 She returned her gaze to the screen in front of her, she wanted to pop off at him again but it wouldn’t do any good. She had made her displeasure of having a Son babysitter while she worked known. After a few seconds, Kozik’s burner rang and he pulled it out. “Don’t.’ She said pointing her finger, “Kozik please.”

 “Hey VP, what’s going on?” He said once he flipped his phone open, “I am right here with her.” 

Ryder had picked up a letter opener and pointed it at him in a silent threat. 

 The blonde man smirked, he knew that she wouldn’t actually do anything to harm him, it was either him or Happy and a lot of the time she chose Kozik. He didn’t scare people the way Happy did. He held out the phone to her, “talk to him, it won’t kill you.” “Might  kill you.” She whispered as she took the phone from him, “Yeah?” “Ry, you need to come home.” It wasn’t a statement, it was a demand. 

“Why?” Kozik was now standing in front of her desk, her daughter on his hip clearly wanting to eavesdrop. 

There was an angry sigh from the other end of the phone, he hated when Ryder got like this, not wanting to listen to him. 

He supposed that he deserved it because of what happened when Wendy conned her way into their lives and into bed with Jax.

 “Something happened to Wendy and the baby.”   

Ryder recoiled away from the phone, her green eyes full of tears. She had tried her hardest not to hear anything about Jax and Wendy, even forbidden Kozik and Bull to not talk about either one of them in her presence. “Wendy overdosed.”

  “Again?” She couldn’t help it, she had known Wendy when she was in Charming and knew that the woman only ever cared about was chasing a high. 

“She’s dead.”  “Oh Jax,” she started, “What about the baby?” 

“He might not make it. Hole in his heart and stomach. I need you and Harley here.”  

“I can’t just up and leave Jax, I have cases I am working on. I have clients.”

 It was a lousy line of defense and she knew it, but she had to try.  “Ryder.” Her husband started, “please. I need you.” 

The situation must have been desperate if he was using please, he never did. 

He never had too.

  “Jax,.” She started  softly, turning so she couldn’t see Kozik or Harley, she knew if she looked at them she would say yes. She needed to hold strong to her resolve not to return to Charming and back into the ever ending circle of fighting, drama and anger.  And not to mention there was Gemma, Jax’s mother, she was there and meddling. And meddling in everything. It was exhausting, the whole life was exhausting, she just wasn’t ready for that. And she wasn’t ready for Harley to go through that. Harley deserved a semi happy childhood. 

“I can’t. Not today.” She finally said, “I have to be in court in the morning. This case I have is major and it’s a big client.” Kozik scoffed so loudly that Ryder turned back around and glared. “Ry, this isn’t something you can negotiate.” “Jackson, don’t pull that I am your old man and you have to listen to me bullshit. It didn’t work when we first got together and it’s not gonna work now.”  Kozik’s eyes went wide in surprise. In the time he had been a son and he only ever heard one lady say no and that was Jax’s mother Gemma.  He had met Ryder when she was about 6 and he just joined the mother charter, she was a spitfire then and if anything it was worse now especially since she had been in Tacoma and was living a life that wasn’t dominated by the men in it.  

The phone slamming down on the hard desktop, startled Kozik out of his thoughts and turned to look at her. “I can’t  believe he is playing. I am his old lady, and what he says go card. Our relationship has never been like this. Ever.”  “Well kiddo, I hate to say but times are changin’, and your relationship with Jax is gonna change.” Kozik commented, “One day you will be in Gemma’s place.” Ryder glared at him, her hand curling around the pen she had in her hand, “I am never gonna be that woman.”  

[maladjustedchangeling]

I just finished Love Bites by Ry Herman and it breaks my heart that it’s not more well known and loved because it’s the wlw vampire romcom of my dreams and I want to talk about it.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

the blood of eden trilogy by julie kagawa

let the right one in by john ajvide lindqvist (check trigger warnings for this one)

love bites by ry herman for a fun queer alternative

Any suggestions for Vampire 🧛🏽‍♂️ Books 📕?

[biandlesbianliterature]

42 Bi & Lesbian Books Out in July!

Young Adult:

I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch

Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter

You’re Next by Kylie Schachtesite (YA Thriller)

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (YA Horror)

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy (YA Superhero)

Young Adult Fantasy:

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens

The Green Ray of the Sun by Reinhardt Suarez

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

The Shadow of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

Fiction & Mystery:

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue 

The Feasting Virgin by Georgia Kolias

My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog by Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, translated by Megan McDowell

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Tack & Jibe by Lilah Suzanne

No Regrets by Tabitha Webb

Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka (Mystery)

The Lady Upstairs by Halley Sutton (Noir Thriller)

Romance:

Kiss Me Every Day by Dena Blake

Entangled by Melissa Brayden 

Love Actually by M. C. Cerny

One Woman's Treasure by Jean Copeland 

Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins 

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

Storm Lines by Jessica L. Webb

Hairpin Curves by Elia Winters

Love Bites by Ry Herman (Paranormal Romance)

Infaemous by Arizona Tape (Paranormal Romance)

Science Fiction and Fantasy:

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliot (Science Fiction)

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour by Hank Green (Science Fiction)

I Come with Knives by S.A. Hunt (Fantasy/Horror)

Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler (Fantasy)

Nonfiction:

Heathen Vol. 3 by Natasha Alterici (Comics)

SFSX, Vol 1 by Tina Horn (Comics)

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

Imagining Latinx Intimacies: Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities by Edward A. Chamberlain

Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other by Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson 

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk

Check out the original post at the Lesbrary for covers and blurbs!

Check out more LGBTQ new releases at:

LGBTQ Reads: TBRainbow Alert: 2020 YA Starring QTIPoC, Part II, 2020 LGBTQA Adult Fiction Preview: July-December

Women and Words: New Releases & Coming Up

Lambda Literary: July’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

Reads Rainbow Book Releases: July 2020

Support the Lesbrary on Patreon to get queer books in the mail throughout the year!

[hojiteaversion]

My 2021 In Books

The other Twilight of my youth, aka Twilight by Meg Cabot (reread)

Wanted to read about kisses, got rimming as a bonus, aka The Kiss by Hans-Jürgen Döpp

These cool vampire bitches GAY gay, huh?, aka Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Every romance structure makes perfect sense now, aka Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes

...But I think this might have relied too much on romance beats?, aka Don’t Stop Believing by Gwen Hayes

The infinity prompt is exactly the kind of self-therapy that works for me, which is why I don't do it often enough lmao, aka The Power of Writing It Down by Allison Fallon

Made me realize how much my conceptions of boys and relationships came from Meg Cabot and Twilight, which is why I’m fucked in the head, aka The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot (reread)

Thought this would be a lighthearted gay vampire romcom, was pleasantly surprised by the serious themes it tackled, aka Love Bites by Ry Herman

Great for dumbasses entering the job market, less great for someone who doesn’t live in a cold climate, aka The Capsule Wardrobe by Wendy Mak

...So this is more like it, for me, aka Nada Para Vestir by Arlindo Grund

Me liking and (mostly) understanding magical realism?? It’s more likely than you think!, aka The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos

Came for the enemies-to-lovers, was surprised I loved all the unhealthy relationships in this, aka The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

My favorite Cabotian disaster family + really clever use of the epistolary format, aka Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot (reread)

Best couple out of the three so far, most unbelievable epistolary format, still so much fun, aka Every Boy’s Got One by Meg Cabot (reread)

Becky is a great adaptation of Anne Elliot, the villain is a great adaptation of that Elliot cousin, Reed sucks, aka The Boy Is Back by Meg Cabot

I wrote that it “felt like good smutty Twilight fanfiction from circa 2010” and that "in hindsight, the men look so fucking stupid", aka Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

Holy fuck. Holy fuck this book. IT’S ABOUT LEARNING TO LOVE, BITCH, aka Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

The theme of classism surprised me, and the fatphobia also surprised me, but in the opposite direction, aka When Lightning Strikes by Meg Cabot

The speech on why humans shouldn’t join the Galactic Union thing is permanently etched in my brain, aka The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Austen protagonist that I relate the most to, aka Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Surprisingly touching and effective for a Christian allegory (read: made me fear for the path my soul is in, so, that’s good, I guess), aka The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis

In 20 years I will reread this book and Understand the hype and the Intertextuality or whatever of it all. For now, I just think Judy Poovey deserves comedic protagonist rights, aka The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Were the characters, like, lovable? Well, I love them + the author interview in the audiobook was excellent, aka America For Beginners by Leah Franqui

Oh the shit everyone got away with post-Twilight, aka Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (reread)

About this book, I wrote, “True love is still being devoted to someone even when they’re the dumbest, cluelessest, most stubborn and infuriating person in the universe”, aka Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick (reread)

I swallowed this in one day and immediately started the next one, aka The Wicked King by Holly Black

Do I enjoy reading political intrigue in my enemies to lovers, or do I just enjoy Captive Prince and The Folk of the Air a lot?, aka The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

What an absolutely weird hilarious blast this was. Why did it make me lk cry?? Btw I LOVE the author’s respect for and recognition of teenagers’ issues and self-awareness and brilliance, aka The Extraordinaries by T. J. Klune

Lol I thought this was going to be a cute and lighthearted YA road trip but I cried three fucking times lmao, aka Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

HISTORY! HUMANS! BRAIN! YUVAL’S BRAIN! Life-changing. Ate bread and chocolate milk directly after finishing this book and almost cried with the enormity of it all, aka Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

A mindfuck of a journey as the character figures out she’s a lesbian, aka Bunny by Mona Awad

I will never look at Lisol the same way again. It’s a wonder humans are still alive!, aka A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister

Amazingly rich book with healing and growth and discussions that were so advanced for its time. But yeah, they call dicks ‘good-sized rods’ too, so, really, has anything changed in gay porn, aka Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal by Anonymous Author(s)

Made me worry for the future of my brain and of our democratic societies, and the irony is that I read this too fast to remember details lol, aka Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf

While I think the book would have been cooler if it actually followed its synopsis, I did have a good time, aka I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

Awesome how this book showed our struggles but also was great at letting us live our fantasies; really clever that the kids are monster-like, too, aka The House In The Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

Gorgeous, life-changing, inspiring, informative, universal must-read, especially before clowning on social media :’). I will read anything this woman writes, aka Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri

What. Aka A Hora da Estrela by Clarice Lispector

A lot I liked and a lot I didn’t like, and I’m glad I read it, aka Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin

Fuck Edward Cullen, I want what Seth and Nick and also what Gibby and Jazz have, aka Flash Fire by T. J. Klune

Unfortunately didn’t rock my world as much as it did the first time, but also it was a worthwhile read, aka Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin (reread)

Maybe not a good pick for a /my first Bechdel, aka Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel

Incredible prose and imagery; and, just like folklore, I love how much the way the stories are told, and not just their content, are a part of what makes them resonate, aka The Mermaid’s Tale by Amanda Adams

Me: I’ve connected the dots! – The end of the book: You didn’t connect shit, aka The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Thanks for the rec Miss Mitski, aka The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff (v.1) by Charles Reznikoff

I am… quite surprised by the hype, aka The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

I’m always impressed by YA that portrays complicated adult problems, but also, 😬 at Nozomi, aka Love & Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura

Mcquistonian dialogue and friend groups and Mitski references is really all I need in a book, I think, aka One Last Stop by Casey Mcquiston

My favorite genre is when authors are incredibly competent in their craft, aka The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

I didn’t need to understand everything to Get it, and also, this poet too was clearly competent in her craft, aka alphabet by Inger Christensen

[itriednottothinkaboutit]

Queer Vampire Books

Yes Midnight Sun may be coming out this summer but don’t forget that there are plenty of queer vampire stories you can turn to instead! An incomplete list in no particular order below.

F/F

Carmilla (TV adaptation) by Kim Turrisi (YA)

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl (YA)

Love Bites by Ry Herman (YA)

The Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon

The Gilda Stories by Jewell L Gomez

Iron and Velvet by Alexis Hall

Desire at Dawn by Fiona Zedde

Good Enough to Eat by Alison Grey

The Sullivan Vampires series by Bridget Essex

Thrall by Avon Gale and Roan Parrish 

Business Makes Strange Bedfellows by EE Ottoman

Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger The Year of the Knife by GD Penman

Terrible Praise by Lara Hayes

Carmilla and Laura by SD Simper

Darkness Embraced by Winter Pennington  

everafter by Nell Stark

Night Weaver by Madeleine Lycka

Goodreads list

M/M

Simon Snow Series by Rainbow Rowell (YA)

Life As a Teenage Vampire by Amanda Meuwissen (YA)

The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehring (YA)

Archangel Academy series by Michael Griffo (YA)

Triad Blood by Nathan Burgoine

The Beast Without by Christian Baines

Vampire Rising by Larry Benjamin

Human Enough by E.S. Yu

Birth of a Dark Nation by Rashid Darden

Hemovore by Joran Castillo Price

Showers, Flowers and Fangs by Aidan Wayne

Blind Man’s Wolf by Amelia Faulkner

Cronin’s Key series by N.R. Walker

Eye of the Beholder by M.D. Grimm

Letters for Lucardo series by Otava Heikkilä

The Necromancer’s Dance by S.J. Himes

Of Last Resort by Megan Derr

Undaunted by Devin Harnois

Vampire with Benefits by E.J. Russell

Vespers by Irene Preston

Goodreads list

Compilations

Vampires Never Get Old (YA)

Eternally Yours (YA)