[boooks-and-tea]

Hello! I am Cris from @the---hermit, that is not my actual main, but it is in fact the main blog I use to track my study and reading, and overall to journal about stuff.

Since I have been reblogging posts and tagging them as tbr in various blogs of mine I decided to make a dedicated blog once and for all. This way I am sure I will find them again when I look for them, and I like the idea of curating a big tbr list online. I am also very much open to any book recs so do drop them in my asks if you have any!

Happy reading!!

[the---hermit]

Does anyone have good solar punk book recs?

[jonnywaistcoat]

US cover reveal for The Burn Line

A bunch of you over the Atlantic have been asking me about the American edition of The Burn Line, and until today I've only been able to give a sort of knowing smirk.

But no longer! Check out this FANTASTIC cover from Poison Pen Press, who are putting the novel out across the pond.

Oh, and if you're keen to read an excerpt - check out the announcement in Reactor Mag.

[thebisexualwreckoning]

They’re so funny let’s all read the book called ‘the book that kills you’ from hit audio drama ‘do NOT under any circumstances read the book called ‘the book that kills you’’.

[void-flesh]

Free pdf.

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Free audiobook

[boooks-and-tea]

Books from series that I need to get my hands on asap:

The second and fourth book in the weird house murders series because I read them out of order and I cannot wait to be caught up with them

Last two books of The Witcher series, which I started reading years ago and have not finished reading yet, but I have not given up on it

[boooks-and-tea]

I have now finished both series! So I can officially take all these books off my tbr :D

[a-ramblinrose]

I delve even deeper into Tolkien's gift of wordcraft with this stunning collection of poetry!

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[karis-the-fangirl]

Consider the Fork isn’t about food itself exactly but all about cooking technology and how it changed how and what we eat

[dinosauriaawesome]

Can’t believe Against the Grain isn’t on this thread, it’s exactly what OP is looking for!

[remnantglow]

classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

[remnantglow]

ALT

ALT

ALT

guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men

[remnantglow]

ok i’ve gotten one too many ‘this is why i don’t read sci-fi’ comments so here’s a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):

(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)

smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who’d rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)

a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who’s lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it’s really cool!)

a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don’t get to recommend it often enough!!!)

a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)

hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)

or, if you’d prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)

alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god’s drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)

a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)

poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)

a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author’s got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that’s smth you’re looking for!)

africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)

spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)

cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)

also, if you’re a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they’ve recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?

this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis

and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i’d particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰

[babischlong-six]

I’ll add C.J. Cherryh and her Foreigner series to this! Alien politics, linguistics, adventure and intrigue… Sometimes the aliens aren’t just like us, after all, and that’s ok!

[queerliblib]

Irish? Queer? we’ve got books for you

Irish authors, settings (or both!), with a St. Patricks’ Day romance thrown in - all available at the Queer Liberation Library!

Books pictured are listed below, and there are more in the list in our collection if you click through!

Some Integrity by Padraig Regan (multi-award winning irish poetry, queerness as a way of looking)

In the Name of Love: the movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland by Una Mullally (what it says on the tin)

Moments of Glad Grace by Alison Wearing (ultimately a family story, exploring ancestral connections to Ireland and a daughter’s relationship with her aging father)

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue (teens, tarot, and catholic school)

Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary (young friendship in 1980’s Dublin)

Lucky to Be Yours by Shannon O’Connor (fun F/F rom-com!)

[lacangri21]

A Library of Taíno Books

These include fiction, non-fiction, and authors not of Taino descent. It can be quite hard to find booklists for this, so I'm generating my own:

The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Anacaona: Golden Flower by Edwidge Danticat

Ancient Borinquen by Peter E. Siegel

Cacicas by Margaret R. Ochoa

Caciques and Cemi Idols by Jose Oliver

Canoa by Miguel Sague-Machiran

The Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan

The Cemi Guayakan by Naniki Reyes Ocasio

Cocuya Lights the Way by Danielle Smith-Llera

Comparative Arawakan Histories by Jonathan D. Hill

Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago

Los Cuentos de Mi Abuela by Tere Marichal-Lugo

Earth and Spirit by Maria Benedetti

Encounter by Jane Yollen

The Golden Flower by Nina Jaffe

Guak’toka Taíno by Selena Lapham

History of Puerto Rico by Fernando Pico

History of Puerto Rico by Loida Figueroa (out of print; very rare)

History Smashers by Kate Messner and Jose Barreiro

How the Sea Began by George Crespo

The Indigenous People of the Caribbean by Samuel M. Wilson

Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean by Maximilian C. Forte

Itiban ka Kalliare by Sergio Mojica

Keeping the Taino Language Alive by Richard Morrow Porrata

The Legend of the Cacique Princess by Michael Dorta (as well as its prequel and sequel)

The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction by Tony Castanha

The Mythology and Religion of the Tainos by Sebastian Robiou Lamarche

On this Beautiful Island by Edwin Fontanez

People of blue thoughts by Enrique Perez Diaz

The Peoples of the Caribbean by Nicholas J. Saunders

The Sea-Ringed World by Maria Garcia Esperon

Song of the Taino by Devashish

Taino Ceremonies, Myths, Rituals & Zemis by Lynne A. Guitar

Taino Genealogy and Revitalization by Richard Morrow Porrata

Taino Indian Myth and Practice by William F. Keegan

Taino Remedies by Isamar Rivera

The Taino Sun by Tere Marichal-Lugo

Taino Tales: The Secret of the Hummingbird by Vicky Weber

Taino Tales: The Legend of Coqui by Vicky Weber

Taino Tales: The Miracle of Salome by Vicky Weber

The Tainos by Irving Rouse

Tainos and Caribs by Sebastian Robiou Lamarche

Talking Taino by William F. Keegan

Zandunga by Robert Solano

The tale of the Tainos and Caribs by Gabriel Figueroa

Anani and the Cave of Cacibajagua by Selena Lapham

Anacaona by Viviana S. Torres

Tainos y Caribes by Sebastian Robiou Lamarche

Comparative Arawakan Histories by Jonathan D. Hill

Women in Caribbean History by Verene Shepherd

Taino by Ricardo E. Alegria

Tales of the Taino Gods by Osvaldo Garcia-Goyco

Taino Ni Rahu series by Lynne A. Guitar

Taíno Sun by Tere Marichal-Lugo

A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity by Sherina Feliciano-Santos

Anacaona by Maryse Noel Roumain

Taino by Jose Barreiro

Dreaming Mother Earth by Jose Barreiro

The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago

I know there are more that I am missing, but this is what I can do for now.

[boooks-and-tea]

Cambiare la storia - falsi, apocrifi, complotti by Adriano Prosperi

[the---hermit]

tell me about your favourite horror book(s) so i can add them to my neverending tbr!

[upside-down-uni]

hello. what a coincidence we shoould meet here.... let me just... drop these here in no particular order...

The Dead Take the A Train - Cassandra Khaw, Richard Kadrey

Bat Eater - Kylie Lee Baker

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk

Sister, Maiden, Monster - Lucy A. Snyder

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo

Walking Practice - Dolki Min

A Mouthful of Birds - Samanta Schweblin

Maeve Fly - CJ Leede

Eyes Guts Throat Bones - Moïra Fowley

Gods of Want - K-Ming Chang

House of Leaves - Mark z. Danielewski

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

honorary mentions: Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo and House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland

[boooks-and-tea]

I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU JFKDKDKD (please do feel free to ramble about them as much as you want i always trust your book recs and i love hearing you talk about your favourite reads!!)

[the---hermit]

tell me about your favourite horror book(s) so i can add them to my neverending tbr!

[boooks-and-tea]

Horror books that have been on my tbr for ages:

You weren't meant to be human by Andrew Joseph White

Sleewfoot by Brom

The only good indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The terror by San Simmons

The day of the triffids by John Wyndham

Monstrillo by Gerardo Samano Cordova

[boooks-and-tea]

Books from series that I need to get my hands on asap:

The second and fourth book in the weird house murders series because I read them out of order and I cannot wait to be caught up with them

Last two books of The Witcher series, which I started reading years ago and have not finished reading yet, but I have not given up on it

[boooks-and-tea]

Some non fiction books that have been on my radar but I have not bought yet:

Saggio erotico sulla fine del mondo by Barbascura x

Mavericks by Jenny Draper

The Whole Picture by Alice Procter

Monsters by Claire Dederer