#emergency contact by mary h.k. choi

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[thebookishcrypt]

Batch Ratings for 2019: Contemporary/Romance Edition

This is a list of contemporary books that I read in 2019. I didn’t really write full reviews for them but I still wanted to share my ratings! My full reading list can be found on my [Goodreads] so you can look further into them! Review from Goodreads: “I. FREAKING. LOVED. THIS. SO. HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I WANT MORE!!!!!Oh my god how am I going to sleep now. I am way too awake from all the…

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🦇 We shouldn't wait until May every year to delve into the beauty of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voices. In May, I shared a list of the NEWEST AAPI books out this year. To keep promoting AAPI authors, characters, and stories, here are a few Young Adult AAPI books you can add to your TBR for the remainder of the year!

🏮 The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 🏮 My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong 🏮 Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert 🏮 To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han 🏮 I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu 🏮 Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 American Panda by Gloria Chao 🏮 When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon 🏮 Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman 🏮 Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao 🏮 Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao 🏮 Want by Cindy Pon 🏮 The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf 🏮 A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata 🏮 Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon 🏮 Everyone Wants to Know by Kelly Loy Gilbert 🏮 A Pho Love Story by Loan Le 🏮 The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad 🏮 Prepped by Bethany Mangle 🏮 The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn 🏮 Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi 🏮 Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park 🏮 This is Not a Personal Statement by Tracy Badua 🏮 The Cartographers by Amy Zhang 🏮 The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim 🏮 This Place is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian 🏮 Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido 🏮 I'm Not Here to Make Friends by Andrew Yang 🏮 The Queens of New York by E. L. Shen 🏮 Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying 🏮 These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi 🏮 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim 🏮 The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim 🏮 A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

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evermore: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (willow)

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (champagne problems)

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (gold rush)

This Winter by Alice Oseman ('tis the damn season)

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (tolerate it)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (no body, no crime)

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (happiness)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (dorothea)

Emergency Contact By Mary H.K. Choi (coney island)

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (ivy)

One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (cowboy like me)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (long story short)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong (marjorie)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (closure)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (evermore)

Insurgent by Veronica Roth (right where you left me)

Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo (it's time to go)

[orchidsangel]

hello ml!!

i was curious abt how big of a reader you are. like, if books ever interested you or if it’s just fics of tumblr mby?

and if books for you, what are your favourite(?)?!

hi robin!!!

oh gosh, i used to be such a massive reader. like genuinely addicted to reading, could knock out multiple books in a day. i remember one time when i was in elementary school, the book fair came around, and i asked to go to the nurses office so i could get out of class and look at the books.

i think sometime in middle school, i stopped reading as much, and by high school, i almost completely stopped outside of stuff assigned for class. and even then, i would skim over stuff and just quit a few chapters in.

i've got adhd so my attention span is really short, and my brain just won't function normally when i read, so i find myself rereading the same sentences over and over again to make sure i understand them, which just gets really frustrating. so idk, i stopped reading full-blown books bc of it. which is crazy because i do still love reading, i just hate that my brain's a little wonky and won't let me do it in peace.

a couple years back, i had to take english over in summer school, and it was basically a free reading period, so i ended up reading three entire books that summer, which may not be a lot for some people, but for me, at the time, it was really big. and last year, i finally finished a book that i had started two years prior but put down because it was just fucking insane.

i hope to read more this year, and literally, just last night, i raided my mom's classic lit shelf. planning on reading dracula or the picture of dorian gray!

as for my faves, it's hard to say because every book that's really stuck with me was something i read 2+ years ago, but the party by robyn harding was one i really loved. i read it in 8th grade, and it definitely wasn't for kids, but idk, i've never been one to stick to my age group. emergency contact by mary h.k. choi was a big one for me. i read that in 9th grade as a freshman in high school, i believe, and i followed it up with permanent record also by mary h.k. choi. i really loved both books, which was surprising for me because i'm not really into romance, but what i liked about them was how the entire plots weren't focused on the relationship, like it was more than that.

when you reach me by rebecca stead was a book i read when i was 10, and i still think about it to this day. i get the urge to reread it because my ten-year-old brain couldn't fully understand what was going on, but i did really enjoy it. during that same time in my life, i read the books absolutely normal chaos by sharon creech and a crooked kind of perfect by linda urban. both are books i think about often, especially a crooked kind of perfect, i reread it multiple times.

the most recent book i finished was credence by penelope douglas which…no comment. (literally put it down for two years before picking it up again and then had to put it back down for another six months)

my most recent fave was beware that girl by teresa toten, which i really really loved. although, the ending was a little lackluster, so i choose to ignore it and focus on the parts that i loved, which was pretty much the entire rest of the book.

i also enjoyed we were liars by e. lockhart, which was recommended by booktok before they became a bunch of smut fiends. i really did like that one, i didn't expect the end, and it was a good read to me.

there's definitely more that i've read in my life and enjoyed. i was a big geronimo and thea stilton lover when i was a kid, along with junie b jones and any iteration of a diary that could be found (dork diaries, dear dumb diary, diary of a wimpy kid). but lately, all i read is fanfiction, and i don't even read that much anymore.

i suppose the best way to exercise my brain muscles and get back into the habit of reading is to pick up a book and read, but ahhh, my eyes get so tired, and i already spend so much time staring at words while writing and doing homework. but i do really miss the feeling of being thoroughly enthralled in a book and not being able to put it down.

speaking of a book i forgot, the cheerleaders by kara thomas was a book i read the summer before my freshman year of high school, and it's the book that made me realize i thoroughly enjoy murder mysteries set in high school.

anyway, sorry this got so long. thank u for the q; made me really happy to answer it!

[arabellafairy777]

I'm currently in what i call my "Lana Del Rey phase"

Artists: Lana, The Neighbourhood, Marina, Melanie Martinez, Mazzy Star, Sex after Cigarettes

Books ♡

Read: Still missing by Chevy Stevens, Stolen by Lucy Christopher, I stop somewhere by T.E Carter, Church by Stylo Fantome, The perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles, Held by Edeet Ravel, Bully by Penelope Douglas, Before I fall by Lauren Oliver, The kind worth killing by Peter Swanson, Too late by Colleen Hoover, The way I used to be by Amber Smith

Tbr: Flawed by Kate Avelynn, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Mara Dyer triology by Michelle Hodkin, The places I've cried in public by Holly Bourne, Say I love you by Kanae Hazuki, We are okay by Nina LaCour, Hades Hangmen series by Tillie Cole, Things I'm seeing without you by Peter Bognanni, I hold your heart by Karen Gregory, The way I am now by Amber Smith, Skins by Ali Cronin, Sadie by Courtney Summers, Every day triology by David Levithan, Blackwood institute series by J. Rose, How It feels to float by Helena Fox, Emergency contact by Mary H.K Choi, Preach by Stylo Fantome, If I stay by Gayle Forman, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Wrecked by E. R Frank, Red by Isobel Alice K, Asking for It by Lilah Pace, Cracked up to be by Courtney Summers, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Hick by Andrea Portes, The torn skirt by Rebecca Godfrey,

Style essentials: chokers, platforms, tote bags, lace bras, stockings, skirts, off the shoulder tops, gloss, perfume, painted nails sparkles, red or black, fishnets, eyeliner, mascara, black n white ribbons, chains

Shows n movies: la belle personne, Hick, in treatment, skins, speak, sharing the secret, trust stoker, back roads, little tailor, the idol, look away, adolescence, baby, tart, down in the valley, i believe in unicorns, dear prudence, palo alto, shangri-la suite, before i fall, white oleander, the society, Scum's wish, Say I love you, tvd, spinning out, clementine, young & beautiful, normal people, the sistehood of the traveling pants, a faithful man, the dreamers, a faithful man

Hobbies: take pictures, listening to music while slow dancing at night, singing, reading books, write poetry, night photoshoot,

Only social media: Tumblr n Instagram

[literaticat]

Hi Jenn! Have you noticed an increase or a decrease in YA with older, freshman-in-college-age protagonists? Is that encouraged? Is that bad?

Personally, I think we could use more YA that is on the younger side, because there are SO many YA books that are SO saucy and mature, and that leaves out many readers who are, you know, 12, 13, 14, and want to read YA but aren't necessarily interested in major Sexitimes yet, etc.

So, yes, I think generally there has been an "oldening" of YA over the years, theme-wise, and with that, a bit of an uptick in "freshman in college" or "gap year" protags in YA. After all - a lot of those kids are still 18-19, so, you know, still technically teens. Like FRESH by Margot Wood, or EMERGENCY CONTACT (and other books) by Mary H.K. Choi.

I'd say it is neither strongly encouraged NOR discouraged. It just is what it is. Some teenagers are not in high school anymore. So... there you have it.

The point, though, is that they are STILL facing YA problems -- fitting in, discovering / developing relationships of various kinds, figuring out how to recreate themselves, or whatever it is. Even if they are out of high school, they are probably still living with their parents or dependent on their parents to a certain extent in the dorm, still have to deal with "rules" of some kind, etc. And those issues are still interesting to the teen readers of those books.

Once the protagonist is in their 20s, and dealing with actual GROWN UP PROBLEMS like scrambling to make rent or dealing with a deadbeat spouse or getting stressed out at law school or WHATEVER -- that's not a kids book anymore. Those people are adults, and though a teen may still read it, the bulk of kid/teen readers are not relating to that.

YA books are for teen readers. Adults may love them too, and that's great, but they are FOR teen readers. Adults have literally the entire rest of the bookstore that is for them. (And yes, teens can and do read grownup books as well! But those books are not *geared specifically to them* as YA books are.)

And may I just say as an aside (not that YOU are doing this OP, just generally) -- it drives me bananas when people try to cram everything under the sun into the YA section. Like "she's 23 but she's still FINDING HERSELF, so it's YA!" -- Nope. It truly is not. And that's fine. IT'S FINE if you want to write books about people deeper into college or out of college or whatever. It's FINE to write books about 20-somethings. They just aren't YA books. They are adult books! Which are perfectly wonderful to write and consume and enjoy, not everything has to be YA.

("what about NA???!!!!! NEW ADULT!!!!" -- I mean, OK. What about it. This did not take off in a big way in traditional publishing, though sometimes the term is used, and there are many self-published books that call themselves New Adult, the fact is that most bookstores don't have a specific section for "new adult" (aka books about 20-somethings) -- they are just called books. There are a lot of them. They are in the fiction section or the section of their genre, with all the other books for adults.)

[desdasiwrites]

– Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

[sunlitglycerin]

books of 2023

key:

🌔 reread

🪹 no thoughts no praise

🌊 i have to emotionally recover from this

💥 many thoughts not all praise

🌷 enjoyable

🫧 lovely

january

1. annihilation by jeff vandermeer 🌊

2. the uncoupling by meg wolitzer 🪹

3. the interestings by meg wolitzer 🌔

4. sorrow and bliss by meg mason 💥

5. the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger  🌷

6. brown girl in the ring by nalo hopkinson 🌷

7. astrid parker doesn’t fail by ashley herring blake 🪹

february

8. little eyes by samanta schweblin 🌷

9. we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson 🫧

10. fight club by chuck palahniuk 🫧

11. salt fish girl by larissa lai 🫧

12. a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan 🌊

13. wintergirls by laurie halse anderson 🌊

14. oryx and crake by margaret atwood 🪹

15. severance by ling ma 🌊

march

16. olga dies dreaming by xóchitl gonzález 💥

17. the hating game by sally thorne 🌊

18. second first impressions by sally thorne 🌷

19. american royals by katherine mcgee 💥

20. the worst best man by mia sosa 🌷

21. my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh 🌔

22. the change by kirsten miller 🫧

23. sealed with a diss by lisi harrison 🌔

24. fledgling by octavia butler 💥

25. the road by cormac mccarthy 🌊

26. intimacies by katie kitamura 🫧

27. le divorce by diane johnson 🌊

april

28. it happened one summer: a novel by tessa bailey 💥

29. fifty words for rain by asha lemmie💥

30. all my puny sorrows by miriam toews 🌔

31. speak by laurie halse anderson 🌔

32. the queen’s gambit by walter tevis 🫧

33. you will know me: a novel by megan abbot 🌷

34. the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides 🌔

35. the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by charlie mackery 🌊

may

36. beautiful world, where are you: a novel by sally rooney 🌷

37. conversations with friends: a novel by sally rooney 🌊

38. a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith 🫧

39. emergency contacts by mary h.k. choi 🌔

40. i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson 🌔

41. if i never met you: a novel by mhairi mcfarlane 🌷

42. the girls by emma cline 🌊

43. confessions of a shopaholic: a novel by sophie kinsella 💥

44. second place: a novel by rachel cusk 🌊

45. convenience store woman by sayaka murata 🌔

june

46. the black presidency: barack obama and the politics of race in america by michael eric dyson 🫧

47. i’ll be you by janelle brown 🪹

48. the best american short stories (2020) 🌊

49. crazy rich asians by kevin kwan 🌔

50. the suitors: a novel by cécile david-weill 🌷

51. monster high by lisi harrison 🌔

52. elegance by kathleen tessaro 🌔

53. monster high: the ghoul next door by lisi harrison 🌔

54. monster high: where there’s a wolf, there’s a way by lisi harrison 🌔

july

55. monster high: back and deader than ever by lisi harrison 🌔

56. thin girls by diana clarke 🌊

57. eileen by ottessa moshfegh 🌷

58. china rich girlfriend by kevin kwan 🌔

59. composing a life by mary catherine bateson 🌷

60. in every mirror she’s black by lọlá ákínmádé åkerström 🌊

61. the invasion by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

62. less by andrew sean greer 🌊

63. the visitor by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

august

64. when katie met cassidy by camille perri 🌷

65. the message by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

66. the predator by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

67. the capture by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

68. the stranger by k.a. applegate (animorphs) 🌔

69. david kibbe's metamorphosis: discover your image identity and dazzle as only you can by david kibbe (who could have guessed) 🌷

70. the most fun we ever had by claire lombardo 🌔

71. earthlings by sayaka murata 🫧

72. pageboy: a memoir by elliot page 🫧

73. diary of an oxygen thief by anonymous 🌊

74. bridget jones’s diary by helen fielding 🌷

september

75. idol, burning by rin usami 🫧

76. cleopatra and frankenstein by coco mellors 🌷

77. kitchen by banana yoshimoto 🫧

78. addiction by design by natasha dow schüll 🌊

79. the fellowship of the ring by j.r.r. tolkein 💥

80. smashed: story of a drunken girlhood by koren zailckas 🌊

october

81. american psycho by bret easton ellis 🌊

82. all the lovers in the night by mieko kawakami 🫧

83. peace, love, and baby ducks by lauren myracle 🌖

84. if i had your face by frances cha 🌊

85. milk fed by melissa broder 🪹

86. legally blonde by amanda brown 💥

november

87. seven ways we lie by riley redgate 🌖

88. even the stars look lonesome by maya angelou 🫧

89. airhead by meg cabot 🌖

90. being nikki by meg cabot 🌖

91. runaway by meg cabot 🌖

92. wuthering heights by emily brontë 🌊

93. slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion 🫧

94. the heart principle by helen hoang 💥

95. in the shape of a human body i am visiting earth, edited by ilya kaminsky, dominic luxford, and jesse nathan 🌊

96. good for you by tammara webber 🌖

97. here without you by tammara webber 🪹

december

98. breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami 🌊

99. ender’s shadow by orson scott card 🌖

100. girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland 🌊

101. altered states by anita brookner 🌊

102. i don’t know how she does it by allison pearson 💥

103. the hunger games by suzanne collins 🌖

104. catching fire by suzanne collins 🌖

105. mockingjay by suzanne collins 🌖

[sesame-sim]

Emergency Contact (by Mary H.K. Choi)

ALEXIS: (to Billy Ray) You be good for your daddy ok hun? ALEXIS: (to her husband Danny) It's New Year's Eve. The diner's gonna be busy. Lord knows when I'll get home. Don't just let 'em eat cereal all night. There's chili in the pot and some sandwich stuff around. DANNY: I'm a pro at this by now.

ALEXIS: When you're awake you are but you ain't much help when you snooze off after drinking. Brandi Rose, babe. Please try and get your brother to sleep if your dad can't handle it. BRANDI ROSE: 'kay, but can I stay up and wait for you? ALEXIS: Stay up for the countdown on tv if you want but not much later than that, alright? I'll be home already when y'all wake up.

Billy Ray fussing

ALEXIS: You wanna be picked up again? BILLY RAY: Yes. ALEXIS: Oh, look at that face. He misses me already. (gives him kisses)

DANNY: You're never getting out the door. DANNY: (to Brandi Rose) Why does your mom always think she's leaving for 20 years instead of a few hours? BRANDI ROSE: (shrugs) She's just like that. (pause) I kinda like it.

BOOK SYNOPSIS - Penny (a college freshman) meets Sam (a coffee shop barista) because he’s kinda-sorta a relative of her roommate. Penny rescues Sam when he’s having a panic attack. A will they won’t they set in Austin, TX. 

CONTEXT - Brandi Rose Sidelow later grows up to be the mom of male protagonist Sam Becker. At this time, Brandi Rose is age 5 and her brother Billy Ray just turned 2.

BOOK TIME/PLACE - year unspecified in the book; Austin, Texas

MY SAVE TIME/PLACE - Sim Year 50 / Sim Day 5712 / Winter D28 / Saturday / Evergreen Harbor

POSTS FOR THIS BOOK

SONG PAIRING - for their new year, "This Will Be Our Year" by OK Go

[angelsaxis]

2022 Movies, Shows, Books, and More

Requirements: must have seen the movie all the way through or have seen at least one full season of the series. Anything with an asterisk is one I enjoyed immensely.

Movies

Nobody Knows (2004)

The Batman (2022)

Turning Red (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)*

The Sea Beast (2022)

The Bad Guys (2022)

Green Snake (2021)

Nope (2022)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)

The Irishman (2019)

The Godfather Part I (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Big Night (1996)

Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

Wendell & Wild (2022)

You Will Die At Twenty (2020)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Farha (2021)

Breaking (2022)

Documentaries

Paris is Burning

Books

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

The Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso*

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry*

Sudden Flash Youth edited by Chrsitine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman

Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

Shows

All of us are dead*

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*

The Cuphead Show

Another Life

Juvenile Justice

Great British Baking Show

Abbott Elementary

Bel-Air

Al Rawabi School for Girls

Yellowjackets

Kenobi

Sky Castle

We Are Lady Parts

Severance*

P Valley*

The Bear*

The Sandman

The Watcher

Andor*

Interview With The Vampire*

Tales of the Jedi

Manifest

Mob Psycho 100*

Alice in Borderland

Podcasts

Archive 81

[booksandarts]

November Wrap Up Cassie: So for our September wrap up— Rina: Nope it’s November. Cassie: ….so for our Octob— Rina: Still November. Cassie: no. Rina: Right now it's December. So we’re going to talk about the books we read in November. That makes it our November wrap up. Cassie: It can’t be December already. Rina: It can. The books we’ve read mark the passage of time. Cassie: Whoa. Rina: Yeah. Cassie: We’re so much closer to death than I thought. #HowManyBooksWillWeReadBeforeWeDie #GotABigTBR #ProbsGonnaLiveForeverTBH Cassie’s reads: Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell: 4 stars Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi: 3 stars Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade: 2 stars Rina’s reads: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune: 4.5 stars (audio) The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: 4 stars (audio) Goodbye Paradise by Sarina Bowen: 3 stars Hello Forever by Sarina Bowen: 3 stars . . . . #novemberwrapup #merrychristmas #happyhanukkah #happyholidays #becauseofreading #bookclubs #booksbooksbooks #bookishphotography #bookstagramfeature #bookaesthetic #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #epicreads #prettybooks #boostagram #flatlay #books #bookfeature #bookishlove #bookishfeature #bookcommunity #igreads #unitedbookstagram #bookrecommendation #readersofinstagram #readingismagic #currentreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CmkMqPjy36a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jxrm]

book log - 2019

my kind of perfect by hannah ellis

not the girl you marry by andie j. christopher

the wedding party by jasmine guillory

sweet venom by tera lynn childs

obsession by amanda robson

the proposal by jasmine guillory

maybe in another life by taylor jenkins reid

the last librarian by brandt legg

exit west by mohsin hamid

the water cure by sophie mackintosh

the broken hearts' society of suite 17c by leighann kopans

royal holiday by jasmine guillory

the good samaritan by john marrs

fuck marriage by taryn fisher

christmas with friends by hannah ellis

the death of mrs. westaway by ruth ware

gabi, a girl in pieces by isabel quintero

swipe right for murder by derek millman

#therealcinderella by yesenia vargas

shutter island by dennis lehane

the wedding of rachel blaine by amy cross

pieces of her by karin slaughter

these witches don't burn by isabel sterling

a spark of light by jodi picoult

the friend by teresa driscoll

frankissstein by jeanette winterson

how to hang a witch by adriana mather

the bride test by helen hoang

just one bite by jack heath

the babysitters coven by kate williams

blame game by c.j. cooke

about the night by anat talshir

wreckage by emily bleeker

our house by louise candilish

just what kind of mother are you? by paula daly

the other ann by amy cross

in a dark, dark wood by ruth ware

spare room by dreda say mitchell

jar of hearts by jennifer hillier

without remorse by tom clancy

the amateurs by liz harmer

exhalation by ted chiang

the astonishing color of after by emily x.r. pan

all the beautiful lies by peter swanson

batman: year one by frank miller

go by kazuki kaneshiro

the bird and the sword by amy harmon

q is for quarry by sue grafton

guilt by amanda robson

blame it on bianca del rio by bianca del rio

size 14 is not fat either by meg cabot

the banker's wife by cristina alger

a good enough mother by bev thomas

someone we know by shari lapena

the man i thought you were by leah mercer

radio silence by alice oseman

the butterfly garden by dot hutchison

in twenty years by allison winn scotch

what happened at the lake by phil m. williams

the thinnest air by minka kent

you know me well by nina lacour

the waiting room by emily bleeker

sleeping murder by agatha christie

we were mothers by katie sise

bunny by mona awad

the one by john marrs

losing leah halloway by lisa reganby devney perry

the song of achilles by madeline miller

daughters of the lake by wendy webb

remember me? by sophie kinsella

the birthday list by devney perry

a curse so dark and lonely by birgid kemmener

spindle by e.k. johnston

the babysitter by sheryl browne

a serial killer's daughter by kerri rawson

the ex by alafair burke

the meryl streep movie club by mia march

watership down by richard adams

every ugly word by aimee l. salter

the rhythm of blues by love belvin

killman creek by rachel caine

undead girl gang by lily anderson

the turn of the key by ruth ware

smart girls gets what they want by sarah strohmeyer

girl gnoe virals by arvin ahmadi

the perfect roommate by minka kent

brother by david chariandy

that time i loved you by carrianne leung

lock every door by riley sager

the zen man by colleen collins

stillhouse lake by rachel caine

daisy jones & the six by taylor jenkins reid

once upon a river by daine setterfield

the good widow by liz fenton

sadie by courtney summers

dead girls by tim kizer

half past by victoria helen stone

the woo-woo by lindsay wong

ender's game by orson scott card

smoke by catherine mckenzie

the favorite daughter by kaira rouda

xo by jeffery deaver

whiskey in a teacup by reese witherspoon

the truth lies here by lindsey klingele

save the date by morgan matson

i am wathcing you by teresa driscoll

the last time i lied by riley sager

alex and eliza by melissa de la cruz

little fires everywhere by celeste ng

the long deception by mary mccluskey

fast forward by juliet madison

emergency contact by mary h.k. choi

two weddings and a fugitive by donna joy usher

the rules of magic by alice hoffman

i dream of johnny by juliet madison

friends like these by hannah ellids

the perfect mother by aimee molloy

a beautiful poison by lydia kang

girls with sharp sticks by suzanne young

the other woman by sandie jones

from twinkle with love by sandhya menon

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

instant mom by nia vardalos

finding claire by lisa regan

the silent patient by alex michaelides

hidden bodies by caroline kepnes

playing with matches by hannah orenstein

the last resort by marissa stapley

robin by dave itzkoff

the perfect child by lucinda berry

sugar run by mesha maren

the afterlife of holly chase by cynthia hand

bright side by kim holden

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

the perfect mother by nina darnton

rush by lisa patton

girls' night out by liz fenton

the tattooist of auschwitz by heather morris

the power by naomi alderman

bird box by josh malerman

all we ever wanted by emily giffin

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

this is how it always is by laurie frankel

eligible by curtis sittenfield

the better sister by alafair burke

an anonymous girl by greer hendricks

educated by tara westover

nine perfect strangers by liane moriarty

the good neighbor: the life and work of fred rogers by maxwell king

harry potter and the philosopher's stone by j.k. rowling

five feet apart by rachael lippincott

the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle by stuart turton

harry potter and the chamber of secrets by j.k. rowling

verity by colleen hoover

the wedding beat by devan sipher

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban by j.k. rowling

boy swallows universe by trent dalton

the polygamist's daughter by anna labaron

harry potter and the order of the phoenix by j.k. rowling

starstruck in seattle by juliet madison

harry potter and the goblet of fire by j.k. rowling

13 minutes by sarah pinborough

harry potter and the half blood prince by j.k. rowling

the silver star by jeannette walls

harry potter and the deathly hallows by j.k. rowling

the girls by emma cline

the sun is also a star by nicola yoon

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Looking for more STAFF PICKS FOR TEENS?

Check out the new books that we recently swapped into our display!

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Beta by Rachel Cohn

Crazy by Linda Vigen Phillips

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park

The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hithcock

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

[bookclubforghosts]

What kind of books is the ghost book club currently reading?

Idk if you mean this strictly as a joke based on my url or if you actually wanna know fhdgsjf buuuut

Last month, I read several plant books (The Unexpected Houseplant, Indoor Kitchen Gardening, The Green Dumb Guide) and one middle grade fiction novel (The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels) which was really cute and silly, it’s about a treasure hunt as well as meant to teach kids how to define who they are themselves outside of their family’s expectations.

This month, I’m on a Mary H.K. Choi kick. Right now I’m reading Emergency Contact at the recommendation of a friend and I reread Yolk earlier this month. Her writing is very nostalgic to me. While some turns of phrase were meme references and thus didn’t age great, I do still really enjoy her characters and it’s a good comfort read. I also started reading The Murderbot Diaries. I’m not always a big fan of science fiction but I am trying to challenge myself and I enjoy the premise so far (still on book one……..)

Next month, I aim to finish reading The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone which I keep starting and getting distracted and not finishing LMFAO and then either The Year I Stopped Trying by Katie Heaney, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire, or Godly Heathens by Edgmon.

[urfriendash]

2023 genre bingo update #1

so as of august 27th i have done 12/16 challenges! note that for many of these categories i’ve read more than one for the genre; i’ve just chosen a random book to put there!

fantasy: the witch haven by sasha peyton smith (1 ⭐️)

thriller: five survive by holly jackson (3 ⭐️)

contemporary fiction: the summer of broken rules by k.l walther (3 ⭐️)

non fiction: have i told you this already?: stories i don’t wanna forget to remember by lauren graham (4 ⭐️)

horror: the lost by natasha preston (1 ⭐️)

classics: of mice and men by john steinback (4 ⭐️)

lgbtq+: missing dead girls by sara walters (4 ⭐️)

romance: emergency contact by mary h.k choi (1 ⭐️)

graphic novel: heartstopper by alice oseman (4 ⭐️)

short story: kill joy by holly jackson (4 ⭐️)

mystery: we were liars by e. lockhart (3 ⭐️)

children’s literature: beyoncé: a little golden book biography by lavaille lavette (4 ⭐️) (does this count…?)