#to be read

[spectre-squared]

I'll go first: I have 414 😅

[fervi-g]

to be read pile

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments // Roland Barthes

Vineland // Thomas Pynchon

Infinite Jest // David Foster Wallace

White Nights // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I Sing, Mountains Dance // Irene Solà

[haleyslibrary]

Some of my most anticipated reads of the year!

Not pictured: Sunrise on the Reaping, The Knight and the Moth, & The Ballad of Falling Dragons.

[teashopcrafts]

I definitely have more than one emotional support pile of unread book.

And yet, when a book I've been waiting forever for finally hits shelves in two days, it will completely supersede all the ones in the pile. Lol, priorities.

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✨🍒TBR List 🍒✨

I think my original fic rec + tbr list got too big, as tumblr will not let me add to it anymore :( to make it (hopefully) less intense for this app, I'm making this post for my TBR fics, and the original post will stay as my fave fics list ⭐️

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Bucky Barnes

Starving - @daisybvck 10.2K 🌶️ "Bucky can’t resist you, he never could. After you’ve had your first child you had strict orders from the doctor to wait two weeks before you could have sex. The two weeks are up and Bucky’s hungry."

Mission Partners - @firingstars 14.9K "you have no idea why bucky has a deep rooted hatred for you. you two are paired up for a mission, and you find yourself facing the demons of your past while having to deal with bucky's mood swings."

Manchild - @houseofhyde 16.3K +wine, dine, whine drabble "bucky can't help but wonder why they always come running to you,, or your living fossil of a roommate disapproves of your taste in men and its totally not because he wants a taste of you."

Show Me Again - @artficlly 17K "you were born a mutant, gifted with the power to manipulate bodily sensations. until now, you've only ever used it to cause pain. but now, stuck in a remote safehouse with bucky for the next few months, tension crackles between you. when you finally confess that your ability can also bring pleasure, he looks at you differently, more than a little curious to experience it first-hand."

About Time - @cursedheartsclub 18K "Bucky Barnes never looked at you twice. Too cold. Too distant. Too focused on the mission. You were too much, he said—too loud, too close, too everything. So you stopped trying. Then you woke up in 1943. And he was there—James Buchanan Barnes, all charm and swagger and soft smiles, looking at you like you hung the stars. Flirting like it was breathing. Touching like he already knew your body. Calling you his girl. You told yourself it wasn’t real. That you couldn’t stay. But seven days in the past can ruin a person. Especially when the present is waiting. And when you come back? He remembers. All of it."

Thunderbabies - @avengxrz 20.4K "you and bucky barnes were enemies. always arguing, always getting paired up for missions that ended with yelling and maybe a few broken ribs. but when the rest of the thunderbolts get turned into toddlers by accident, you and bucky are the only ones left to take care of them. suddenly, you're stuck playing mom and dad to five chaotic babies with too much energy and too many opinions. between diaper changes, late-night cuddles, and a few soft moments you didn’t expect, something between you and bucky starts to shift. but when the babies go back to normal, will they remember what happened... and will he?"

Always a Woman, To Me - @featherandferns 26K "Bucky Barnes has a secret. He has massages nearly every week. It's to help him with his tension and anxiety; to help him sleep. And maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the pretty masseuse."

Alpine, the Heartbreaker - @holylulusworld "Your cat fell for a charming heartbreaker."

This Vertigo of Bliss - @sinner-as-saint

Woven in the Dark series - @buckyseternaldoll "Bucky has dreamt of her since he was fifteen. A woman he’s never met, yet knows in his bones. Across decades of war, cryo, and grief, she’s the only constant."

The Education of James Buchanan Barnes series - @danysdaughter "when dating apps fail him and thirst traps become his downfall, bucky barnes finds himself spiralling down the internet’s most unholy rabbit hole—pornhub."

Saiko series - @rymndsmth "maybe you should've told bucky how you felt. maybe then, the whole dying thing would be easier."

Tangled series - @vunblr "Between fear and fascination, a solitary creature struggles to protect his hidden world -and himself- after an unexpected encounter with a curious human woman makes him question everything he thought he knew about trust, danger, and boundaries."

Harmless series - @shurisneakers "Bucky volunteers to go stop a small time villain, but nothing can prepare him for what exactly he has to deal with"

Letters Through Time series - @buckysleftbicep "you find a letter from 1944 hidden in the old brooklyn apartment you moved signed by one james buchanan barnes. you write back, he did too, and somehow, across decades, you both fall in love."

Mafia!Bucky series - @kinanabinks

Honey Girl series - @violentdelightsandviolentends 🌶️💔 60K [inc] "The Universe shows you your soulmate when it feels like you need them most. When you least expect it, you're given yours - Bucky Barnes. Your Dad's best friend. You can try to refuse it all you like; but the universe wants what it wants. There's no denying fate"

Time After Time series - @intrepidacious 127.1K [inc] "After what starts out as a fairly normal mission, you find yourself stuck in a time loop. Which would already be bad enough in itself if it didn’t also mean having to watch Bucky die over and over again."

Bent and Bruised series - @buckysleftbicep [inc] "you were built by HYDRA to please the soldier—then left for dead. years later, bucky sees your face again. but no amount of time can erase the way you once whispered his name through tears."

Masterlist - @brunchable Masterlist - @bonky-n-steeb Masterlist - @vunblr

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Eddie Munson

Daylight series - @abibliophobiaa 💔🌶️ 60K "You’ve never been one for love. Especially after your last round with it. Halloween rolls around and in comes Eddie Munson. He’s only in town for a couple days, you’re looking for no strings, and chances are you’ll never see him again anyway."

Ruined Expectations series - @gaybybirth 🌶️🧸💔 115K "When marriage season begins, you've just returned home from a grand graduation from finishing school. Expectations are high, a marriage and an heir must be produced as soon as possible, and an old friend doesn't seem interested in being a friend any longer. Being the good, obedient daughter that you are expected to be, you do what is asked of you and definitely do NOT get distracted by that old friend. Certainly not. Your childhood friend turned rake who only greets you with disrespect, disgust, and disinterest?"

Burning Yarrow series - @storiesbyrhi 💔🌶️ 93K "No witch has stepped foot in Hawkins since 1845, but when Vecna opens the ground and poisons the town, a voice begins to call to you. Have you been brought back to this cursed place to heal the townspeople’s wounds, to save a hexed bat that always finds its way to you, or to redefine your history with a reunion 150 years in the making?"

Of Bone & Bloom series - @mykuup 🌶️🧸💔🌿✨ "By the time you stumbled into his domain, the creature had all but forgotten his original purpose. He was a shadow of his former self, driven by instinct and the remnants of a broken mind. But something about you—the way you moved, the fear in your eyes mixed with defiance—stirred something deep within him. A memory, perhaps, of what he had once been, and what he had lost."

I'll Be Home For Christmas series - @eiightysixbaby 💔 "Christmas Eve of 1988 is the last time you saw Eddie, right before he left Hawkins for Chicago, escaping a town that he felt like an outcast in. Now, nearly a year later, Christmas is rapidly approaching again. You’re lost without him, and he’s miserable in the city. Can he right his wrongs and make it home to Hawkins for Christmas, or will everything come crashing down beneath him?"

Death Becomes Us series - @bettyfrommars 🌶️💔🖤🧛🏻‍♂️ 61.2K "Vampires are coming out of the Upside Down and going mainstream in Hawkins. Because of that, the town has become a bit of a tourist destination for people fascinated by vampire lore and the supernatural. Trying to outrun the dark secrets of your past, you decide to lay low in the small town and get a job at a human/vampire crossover bar called Main Vein. You are a recluse who drives a hearse; you have plenty of scars both internal and external. It's been 10 years since Eddie was turned, and the trailer park he lives in is nothing but vampires, that is, until you move in next door. Typical you: running from danger only to find it again." True Blood AU

Anywhere But Here series - @thefreakymunson 💔🧸 "You've taken on a new manager shift as the tour manager for a up and coming band named Corroded Coffin. What you didn't expect was a whirlwind of events to happen after that or for their lead singer to be so attractive."

The Devil I Know series - @fairyysoup 🌶️🌿 "To summon a demon at a crossroads, simply cast a circle, make an offering, and recite an incantation. What happens from that point on is subject to your desire... and the demon's."

Rockstar!Eddie series - @enam3l

Evil Woman, Don't You Play Games With Me series - @wheels-of-despair

Celebrity Skin series - @cacoetheswriting 💔🌶️❤️‍🩹 "as corroded coffin frontman, eddie munson regards himself as perhaps the most important person in the 90s music scene. that is until he meets you — america's favourite starlet. things evolve pretty quickly from there."

Just Watch Me series - @mediocredreams 🌶️🧸💔 "After a break-in at your home your father hires some additional personal security, much to your dismay."

Are You Bored Yet? series - @eddiesghxst [inc] 🌶️💔 "you're steve's “bitchy” step-sister and are spending the summer in hawkins; eddie is steve's annoying best friend who you can’t seem to shake, but things take a sharp turn when you find yourself sneaking around and ultimately falling for him"

The Customer's Always Right series - @lovebugism 💔🌶️ [inc] "eddie muson is a virgin and doesn't want anyone to know (because being an adult who's never fucked anyone is a total reputation ruiner). but you, his favorite customer, are more than willing to change that."

The Lost Princess series - @daydreampending [inc] "Years after running away from your kingdom, escaping your regal duties and joining a pirate crew, you find yourself back under the hand of a royal realm. Forcefully entwined amongst a palace’s workers, you struggle to hide your true identity."

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Steve Harrington

All I Really Want Is You - @loveshotzz "In between summer days, when the sun barely touches the sky, when no one else is awake, you start to fall in love." older!neighbor!widower!steve

Petals for Armour - @maroon-cardigan 57.7K "you were never graceful enough to be a princess, always playing with bows and arrows, while your clumsy but sweet twin brother gregory picked flowers and studied plants outside the castle. childhood was good and gentle to you both until the threat of a war challenged your father, the king. now he must to do whatever it takes to protect your nation, even if that means training greg to go to war and become the heir the kingdom deserves, or marry you off to the future king of the neighbouring kingdom. prince steve always knew he would marry a princess, but he never thought his parents would choose such a rebellious, wild creature like you."

In Your Corner series - @justmeinadaze "Steve has wanted you since high school but you always told him you would never date someone who couldn't be themselves knowing he always followed whatever his popular friends wanted. From that moment, he worked hard and disappeared only to return a year later with a new sense of confidence. You learn he became a boxer and after getting to know this new version of him, you fell in love. Steve can have a temper and be overly passionate but after 3 years you learned how to handle it inside and outside of the bedroom"

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Emperor Geta

Violent Hearts - @lonelysatellites [inc] "Used as a pawn in your father’s games, you are sent to Rome as a plaything for the Emperors to do with as they please."

~ a categoric thank you to every author that has spent time writing these wonderful works 💗 ~

[vesperalities]

first day of sun after almost 3 weeks of rainy weather—sidewalk weeds never miss a beat.

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[tmedic]

Found a secondhand bookstore with amazing classics!! ♥️

[dragonbadgerbooks]

2025 A Song of Ice and Fire Readalong

Hosted by @dragonbadgerbooks

Heya Booklr!

As I've talked about previously, I desperately want to reread the entirety of ASOIAF, but I am accountable to no one but myself, and I know that gal's a softie and won't hold me to it.

That's where you (hopefully) come in.

Let's read together!

I'm planning to start reading A Game of Thrones beginning Monday, June 1. Another poll said that people would prefer to take 6 weeks to read the book (which is perfect for me because I'm juggling this with a full time job and a two year old) and have set chapters/pages to read each week. This averages out to one to two chapters each day with a breakdown below for each week (In the mass market paperback, this is about 19 pages a day or 134 pages a week). Since GRRM doesn't do chapter titles, I've broken it down by the character name and which of their chapters it is (so if it's the second Arya POV chapter, it's called Arya II).

Depending on interest, interaction, and my own motivation, we'll see about continuing with the other books. It's my hope to reread the entire series over the next few months, so y'all gotta keep me accountable :)

Book I: A Game of Thrones Breakdown

Week 1: June 1-7

Prologue Bran I Catelyn I Daenerys I Eddard I Jon I Catelyn II Arya I Bran II Tyrion I Jon II Daenerys II Eddard II Tyrion II Catelyn III

Week 2: June 8-14

Sansa I Eddard III Bran III Catelyn IV Jon III Eddard IV Tyrion III Arya II Daenerys III Bran IV Eddard V Jon IV Eddard VI

Week 3: June 15-21

Catelyn V Sansa II Eddard VII Tyrion IV Arya III Eddard VIII Catelyn VI Eddard IX Daenerys IV Bran V

Week 4: June 22-28

Tyrion V Eddard X Catelyn VII Jon V Tyrion VI Eddard XI Sansa III Eddard XII Daenerys V Eddard XIII Jon VI Eddard XIV Arya IV

Week 5: June 29-July 5

Sansa IV Jon VII Bran VI Daenerys VI Catelyn VIII Tyrion VII Sansa V Eddard XV Catelyn IX Jon VIII Daenerys VII

Week 6: July 6-12

Tyrion VIII Catelyn X Daenerys VIII Arya V Bran VII Sansa VI Daenerys IX Tyrion IX Jon IX Catelyn XI Daenerys X

If you do want to participate, I think I'll use the tag #dbbasoiafreadalong, #dragonbadgerbookclub and my usual #dragonbadgerchallenge. I'll try to also do discussion questions to give a starting point :)

Looking forward to heartbreak with all of you!

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[galina]

Whale Fall, Elizabeth O'Connor – I was sent an advance review copy by picador, it comes out later this month. A powerful short novel with themes of environment, relationships with nature, colonisation, fascism, community, loss, grief, the impact of biased documentation and archiving, and the role of gender in society.

I really liked this, it hones in on a young girl coming of age on an unnamed island off the coast of wales, in the weeks leading up to war being declared in england.

What struck me was how precise and unflinching the language is in this text where images of island life are shrouded in a blanket of dramatic irony. Whales as literary allegory could feel overdone but not here, where the urgent message against fascism, against humans selfishly taking and appropriating for their own gain – whether from nature or other humans – is frank but not overwritten.

[lady-a-stuff]

I wish people would reblog this and put in the tags where are they from and THE classic book of their country for my traveling the world through reading purpose

[rain-is-studying]

Rain's Current TBR

Thank you @zzzzzestforlife for tagging me 💘 my tbr is never ending (literally, it has around 1000 books on goodreads) so I'll give my Top 3 with a bonus of my cr

1. This Is How You Lose The Time War

2. A Memory Called Empire

3. Carmilla

And finally....

My cr:

1984

Tagging: @panda-studiesmed @yelenapines @acuriousconstellation @minimothstudies @againtodreaming @solarsapphic @anime-academia @lavalamp-juice @o2studies + open tag

[haleyslibrary]

Been wanting to start this one for while... One chapter in and already very intrigued!

Featuring my reading buddies and my new mug! 🥰

Book: The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

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