even the stars have gone.

my name is day i'm gay and i like reading he/her/it

[nuclearfaggot]

oh man. oh jeez

[aroaessidhe]

2026 reads / storygraph

Sargassa & Bloodtide

books 1&2 in a political sff trilogy set in a world where Rome never fell

a young woman who’s just become Imperial historian after her father was assassinated, and has been left with a job she wasn’t fully prepared for, and some mysterious objects from the past that she doesn’t understand

her half-brother, raised in their household but low social status due to his illegitimate birth

the girl she grew up with, who was raised to be her secretary, but had her privilege ripped away from her, and managed to escape

as well as an underground revolutionary spy, and the deputy police chief - are all investigating the assassination, searching for the secrets of the mysterious objects which could turn the tides of power & the revolution

sibling relationships, systemic power structures & revolution, climate change, history/knowledge as power

m/nb, f/f, m/m

[dailywordmagnet]

[kazz-brekker]

Luna Station Quarterly

Stellar short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010

Guess what! I published my first short story! You can get the June issue of Luna Station Quarterly as either a edition print or an ebook, and among other things it features my story "As Per My Last Email" which is an epistolary rom-com about a pair of rival wizards at college.

[mascwoman]

I got my first bingo on the @2026-book-bingo card! I’m going for a blackout.

Historical Fantasy: Nightshade & Oak by Molly O’Neill

2026 Debut Author: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

Challenged or Banned: Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Cultural Nonfiction: The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

Gothic Fiction: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

I’ve been leaving reviews for the books on my StoryGraph account.

[midnightliar]

if you are a publisher of fantasy books you should always be budgeting for a map. literally if you don't have a relevant map why are you even in the business of publishing fantasy books. oh you don't have a map of your world/city/whatever? don't worry about, step into our maps department.

[irregulartalk]

If you use an e-reader and want to immerse yourself in the classics of literature that are in the public domain, I highly recommend doing so via Standard E-Books

https://standardebooks.org/

Unlike the free e-books you may have downloaded from Amazon or other marketplaces that are full of formatting errors and typos, these are meticulously corrected and use all the proper typographical marks.

[mascwoman]

Love when a book mentions a meal or recipe. Like, thank you for meal-planning for me! I’m yoinking your dinner ideas!

[beroebluejeans]

There is a quality of books (or movies or shows) that I can best describe as “stickiness,” which is separate from being good or even enjoyable: a sticky book is one I just keep thinking about. Sometimes it’s because a book is very good (e.g. The Locked Tomb), and sometimes it’s because a book is very bad (e.g. ACOTAR), but there are also very good and very bad books that are slippery, such that when I’m done reading them they slip from my thoughts like water from a hydrophobic surface.

[poetrylesbian]

good news everyone

[kficc]

[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

[cardiacanes]

I haven't read it in a while but The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy by Pietra Rivoli is a really interesting examination of cotton as a global crop

[beforeviolets]

Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! ✡︎ 🪬 I made one of these a few years ago, and it was well loved, and I felt it was a good time to make another. In the past year or so I’ve watched the rapid decline of the success of openly Jewish stories and authors in the publishing world. And I understand that it’s because of the rise of Zionism, which has made people (unfortunately) more cautious and more openly hateful towards Jews, and has made Judaism less “trendy” in the market. and as an anti-Zionist Jew myself, I know it makes it all the more important to loudly love Jewish stories and voices, especially as Zionism relies so heavily on antisemitism. To create safe and loving spaces for Jews IS to combat Zionism. So here are some books by (anti-Zionist or non-Zionist) Jewish authors to loudly and proudly love this month and always. things to note: 1. Despite it being Jewish AMERICAN Heritage Month, not all of these authors are American. As a Jewish American living in the UK and seeing the treatment of Jews on both sides the pond, I’ve decided to include authors regardless of location. 2. This is NOT a complete list. I tried to prioritize books that I’ve read or come highly recommended and are on my TBR. I read primarily SFF and horror, so those genres are more represented here. There are also some authors who have to be cautious with stating their opinions publicly for personal safety reasons who I have left off here. Rest assured, I will never knowingly promote a Zionist author on my page. That being said, please leave more recommendations in the comments!!!! Or make your own post and share the love! 3. Not all of the authors have explicitly called themselves “anti-Zionist” but have at least expressed sentiments that make their stance against Zionist ideology clear and may consider themselves non-Zionist or otherwise. 4. If the author had multiple books, I chose their most Jewish one!! all of the books on the first page are explicitly Jewish fantasy, and much of the books throughout are Jewish as well.

Books listed: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (adult Jewish magical realism) The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez (adult Jewish fantasy) The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid (adult Jewish fantasy) From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos (YA Jewish contemporary fantasy) A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft (adult Jewish fantasy) Tale of the Flying Forest by R.M. Romero (MG Jewish fantasy)

The Cove by Claire Rose (YA Jewish horror) Sargassa by Sophie Burnham (trilogy, adult SFF) The White North Has Thy Bones by Dorian Ravenscroft (adult historical horror) When The Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (YA historical fantasy) The Stars Undying by Emery Robin (duology, adult scifi) These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (adult Jewish thriller)

The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel (adult Jewish historical romance) Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (adult SFF) The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (adult Jewish fantasy) The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (adult fantasy) The Seep by Chana Porter (adult sci-fi/dystopian) A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger (adult historical)

Funeral Song by Carly Racklin (adult horror) The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson (adult Jewish hist. fantasy) The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (duology, YA fantasy) The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (YA Jewish horror) Higher by Roz Alexander (adult Jewish romance) A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (duology, adult SFF)

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emyrs (adult Jewish sci-fi) Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein (adult Jewish historical) Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore (adult Jewish romance) Burning Girls and other stories by Veronica Schanoes (short story collection) Here Where We Live is Our Country by Molly Crabapple (Jewish history) For Times Such As These by Rabbi Ariana Katz and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg (Jewish nonfic)

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[parkchanwoohoo]

Found abusive family

[parkchanwoohoo]

Sometimes a group of queer, traumatized people come together and beat the shit out of each other and do DARVO tactics to recreate what their parents did to them. And that's beautiful.

[frankieeex3]

Requesting lesbian books from the library like my life depends on it

[queerliblib]

everybody do this

[midnightliar]

the url zinandour is taken but zinandours is not...