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also "quay" is pronounced "key" and not "kway"

i have heard it pronounced this way so many times on booktok so booklr I need you to know that Circe is pronounced “Keerkee” and not “Sersie” or “Sirse”

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the infuriating thing is that there is genuinely so much good queer literature out there, contemporary and not, but there is also a sizeable chunk of readers who think that a book only "counts" as good queer literature if it's a) unproblematic, b) contains romance as its central focus, and c) has the characters state their orientation and/or gender identity directly to the audience using socially acceptable 21st-century terms (as opposed to resorting to cowardly tactics such as Subtext and Themes)

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List of LGBT+ books that aren’t romance

(romance may be incidental but not the main focus)

Nightrunner (series) - Lynn Flewelling Fantasy

The Bayou - Arden Powell Historical | Horror

Obsidian Island - Arden Powell Fantasy

All For the Game (series) - Nora Sakavic Contemporary | Sports

Boy Underground - Catherine Ryan Hyde Historical | YA

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong Contemporary | Literary

This is How it Always is - Laurie Frankel Contemporary | Literary

The Radiant Emperor (Duology) - Shelley Parker Chan Fantasy | Historical

The Color Purple - Alice Walker Classics | Historical, Literary

The Vampire Chronicles (series) - Anne Rice Fantasy | Horror

What Lies in the Woods - Kate Alice Marshall Mystery | Thriller

These Fleeting Shadows - Kate Alice Marshall Horror | Mystery | YA

The Edge - Lucy Goacher Thriller

Unbury the Bones - Coyote JM Edwards Fantasy | Mystery

Nimona - ND Stevenson Fantasy | Graphic Novel | YA

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Classics | Horror | Literary

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling Horror | Science Fiction

Feed them Silence - Lee Mandelo Science Fiction

Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo Fantasy | Horror

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle Horror

American Hippo (River of Teeth+Taste of Marrow) - Sarah Gailey Fantasy | Historical | Speculative Fiction

Nightingale & Courtney (series) - Katie Daysh Fiction | Historical

Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica Thriller

This Town Sleeps - Dennis E. Staples Contemporary

Prophet - Sin Blanché, Helen Macdonald Literary | Science Fiction | Thriller

The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica Dystopian | Horror | Literary

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I have so many Louis L'Amour books (someone got them for me randomly at a garage sale) and I've only read one of them. Is anyone on Tumblr a fan and if so which of his books should I read first?

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True Grit – Charles Portis

1.9.2024

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Andrew Minyard- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

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bro what if we fit together like puzzle pieces bro what if we just lay down and like test it out bro you never know

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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]

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love books. because it’s like what if something happened

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Your strange hunger for ease should not mean a death sentence for all of creation.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

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the song of Achilles

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rereading tsoa in 2025

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suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomenon of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

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oh wyatt callow, the boy who weighed everyones odds in the arena and still threw himself in front of a blade for lou lou, knowing hers too.

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But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other other's lack of understanding?

- Maya Angelou, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings