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diverse-reads · 2 months ago
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"Be careful of offering your life to a witch," he said. "You never know what we might do with it." "It's all right, I'm hardly using it," I promised.
— Natasha Pulley; The Hymn to Dionysus
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Here are bisexual books out in 2025!!! I hope you enjoy the post!
This is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list.
You can find a goodreads list of this here.
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diverse-reads · 1 year ago
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day 01/100 | one hundred days of books
i've spent this week reading ninth house, after finally getting my hands on it last november. i recall there being controversy when it was first released, but honestly, i still don't understand why it provoked so much anger. the book comes with its own undercurrents of anger, and with so much still unresolved i don't expect that to end any time soon, but there's also something cathartic in it, every time a man gets brutalised for his misogyny, every time alex gets to truly show who she is. this was definitely not an easy read, but it was a powerful one.
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diverse-reads · 1 year ago
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🌈 Hey, Reading Rainbows happy Saturday! It’s our final post for Aromantic Awareness Week! To wrap up with a bang, we have 24 books featuring aromantic MCs or nonfiction books with a focus on aromanticism. These are all new recommendations from our earlier reels and our post from last year. If you missed our reels, we’ll repost them in our stories!
What’s your favorite aro book? Drop us the title and author in the comments! Authors please feel free to self-promote your aro books in the comments!
Aromanticism is not a one size fits all. These characters live full and varied lives from all backgrounds. Aro characters can exist in every genre, even romance! While there’s still a way to go to break down amatonormativity, reading aro books is just one step!
Books listed above their respective graphics.
ID: A post of seven slides. All slides have a background made up of the aromantic flag which has five stripes: dark green, light green, white, gray and black. Overlaid is an opaque white square in the middle with a thin white outline surrounding the square. The first slide reads “24 Aromantic Books for Aromantic Awareness Week”. The 24 is in aro flag colors while the text below follows the aro flag color scheme. Slides 2-8 have four book covers in two rows of two each. End ID.
She Who Brought the Storm by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea
Bones of Green & Hearts of Gold: Non-Asexual Aromantic Stories by K.A. Cook
Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo
The Thread that Binds by Cedar McCloud
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The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath
Tower in the Crooked Wood by Paula Johanson
Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan
The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl
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Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari
With You Forever by Chloe Liese
The Black Tree by Michón Neal
Margins & Murmurations by Otter Lieffe
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Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
Tarnished are the Stars by Rosiee Thor
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
Take Me to Your Nerdy Leader by Hailey Gonzales
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Weapon UwU Vol 1: Godkillers by SJ Whitby
First Test by Tamora Pierce
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee
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Ace & Aro Journey: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity by The Ace & Aro Advocacy Project
Aro Eros Arrows: Integrated Non-Monogamy Book 1 by Michón Neal
Hopeless Aromantic: An Affirmative Guide to Aromanticism by Samantha Rendle 
Amazing Ace, Awesome Aro: An Illustrated Exploration by Victoria Barron
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DID YOU KNOW, we have a whole curated list of our more academically-geared non-fiction??!
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Heaven Official's Blessing (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu)
I read the ~3000 pages of this series in 11 days lmao
Slow burn queer romance between an Heaven Official and a Ghost King
Lots of mysteries - the main story covers a relatively short time but delves back into flashbacks over a period of 800 years
Nice balance of humor and darker topics
(also shout out to the pretty illustrations on the covers and inside, I love them)
8.5/10 for the series
(volumes 4 and 6 are my faves and I'd individually rate them 9/10)
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Snow is the best excuse to stay inside and read some poetry ❄️
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diverse-reads · 2 years ago
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Traduttore, traditore. An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Currently sitting in a coffee shop reading this book, I’m about 139 pages in and I’m completely hooked. It’s so fascinating to unpack what it means to learn a language separate from your own native language, the way we pick languages that impact our surroundings and the way languages themselves function. As someone who’s studied languages from English, Spanish, Latin and French, it’s fascination to realize that despite speaking English primarily now it wasn’t my first language. My first language was Vietnamese and how I lost it over time but have started regaining it and what that means to me. ☕️📝📚
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diverse-reads · 2 years ago
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Tarot October BPC: October 13, 2023 The Chariot - Anticipated Release
Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant (Coming April 30, 2024) by Xiran Jay Zhao Game of Thrones Tarot Deck
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aro & ace book lists masterpost
#aspec books / aro & ace books database (tinyurl.com/aspecbooks)
A couple notes:
These are books I have read, with the occasional exception. I always state when I have not read a book I’m including in a post. May add to and edit posts when I read more relevant books.
I mostly include books I recommend, but to varying levels (and sometimes I'll include some I dislike but they might be worthwhile for someone else) There will of course be some of my personal bias to what I prefer (SFF, YA contemporary)
I prioritise books with aspec main characters. Will include the occasional side character if I have a gap to fill and it’s reasonably significant and/or the author is aspec. Like, would it be worth it to read the book just for this character?
The things I am choosing to group on are based on commonalities I’ve noticed. If I group by one thing but not something similar it's because there's not enough I've read to make a worthwhile post!
Most posts encompass ace & aro & the spectrums (because there's a lot of overlap in the books) but some are one or the other, and I've generally marked them as such here
under the cut, as I will be frequently updating as I post more
asterix* & smalltext means the same post is being linked for a second time (for example if it's gender and genre specific, it might be under both sections)
identity
gender/sexuality
trans part 1 / part 2
aroallo books
aroace girls (contemporary YA)
ace girls (contemporary YA)
ace girls (YA low sff)
relationship
queerplatonic
f/nb
m/nb
other
autistic aspecs
aro books by authors of colour
genre
broad
Graphic novels
YA contemporary (aro)
YA contemporary (ace girls)*
YA contemporary (aroace girls)*
YA low sff (girls)*
YA speculative fiction (aro)
middle grade (aro)
adult: high fantasy (aro)
adult: historical/contemporary fantasy/etc (aro)
historical (1900-1990)
space (opera, or general space setting)
specific
assassins
dragons
fey
ghosts
robots/cyborgs
other/misc
some no-romance books centering a friendship
a few fav aro books
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diverse-reads · 2 years ago
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Day 18: JOMPBPC: Young Adult
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Aro & Ace books: M/nonbinary ships
Aces Wild - ace MC, ace nonbinary love interest
Meet Cute Diary - ace nonbinary love interest
Tears In The Water - acespec gender questioning MC, demi love interest
Help Wanted - ace nonbinary MC
Blasted Research - ace nonbinary MC
The Story of the Hundred Promises - arospec MC, other aro characters & themes
The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt - aroace MC (QPR)
Our Bloody Pearl - ace man / aroacespec agender MCs
Assassins: Nemesis - grey-ace nonbinary MC
#aspec books / aspec database
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JOMP BPC - October 3rd - Faceless
feat. Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk
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Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai
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Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial queer, nonbinary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum (she/her), a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world’s top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank (she/her), a queer biracial Indonesian scientist who compromises everything she claims to love in the name of science and ambition when she sets out to procreate without sperm or egg; and Dr. Frank’s nonbinary creation, painstakingly brought into the world due to complications at birth that result from a cruel twist of revenge, only to be abandoned. Plum struggles to determine the limits of her own ambition when Dr. Frank offers her a chance to assist with her next project. How far will Plum go in the name of scientific advancement and what is she willing to risk?
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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas alt-cover
Prints available here
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“stories exist in all worlds. they are immutable. like gold.”
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
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