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There are so many different reasons why someone might like The Raven Cycle so I divided it up into place, prose, plot and people. Do look up the warnings on any books you are interested in.

Now I hope someone adds on because I need more to read!!

Place - TRC has such a strong sense of place

Bone Gap - the closest small city vibe and dreamy prose to TRC so it gets to be in both categories

The City We Became

Left Hand of Darkness

Prose

Scorpio Races

Call Down the Hawk

Piranesi

Spear that Cuts Through Water

#trc #the raven boys #book recs #dark academia #fantasy novels #Clickityquack clacks #book recommendations #book list #booklr

Queer Vampire Books 🦇

Who is your favorite vampire (from a book, movie, or TV show)? ❤️

While the Batty About Book Club is reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, I want to help the rest of my bookish bats find their next read? Check out these books featuring queer vampires! 🦇

#books #queer #queer books #queer vampire #vampire books #vampire #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #spooky books #spooky #spooky season #book list #book reader #book readers #readers of tumblr #readers

Classics I’d Recommend if You’re Scared of Them

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- this one is a precursor to Dracula and feels more manageable in length and story. It’s about a young lonely girl whose family takes in a mysterious stranger and they become attached until a horrible secret is revealed.

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman- basically a big long poem that stands on themes of nature, sexuality, being, and life. I really liked this book because you can read it cohesively and then afterwards I like flipping to random pages.

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf- I’m reading this one right now and I really enjoy Woolf’s way of prose-writing a novel. She does a good job keeping the reader involved and writing beautifully.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- a short story that packs a LOT into it. If you haven’t already heard of it, The Metamorphosis is about Gregor Samsa who wakes up one morning to find he’s now a giant beetle. This story is short, but made me emotional by the end.

Beloved by Toni Morrison- published in the 20th century, this is a great book to get yourself immersed in more recent classics. Toni Morrison is a power house of an author and writes beautifully, tragically, and with so much heart.

#godzilla reads #classic literature #classic lit #book recs #book recommendations #book blog #bookworm #booklr #bookish #book list

Here are all the books I have read with green covers. Most of them, the ones I liked enough to share.

How many have you read?

1-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-53

Voting ended onJun 7

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🏝️Pacific Islander Books🌺

Okay, here it is! In "Asian and Pacific Islander" the second group often gets overshadowed, so here it is... a Pacific-only book list. This is of course by no means comprehensive. I tried to cover as many areas as I could find literature for. I've marked queer and disability rep based on book blurbs, but I have not read most of these (yet!). Feel free to comment if you know more!

Novels

Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt classic novel, Samoa The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt mythology epic, Samoa Scarlet Lies (series) by Lani Young romance, humor, Samoa (🏳️‍🌈 side character) Mata Oti: Eyes of Death by Lani Young zombie thriller, Samoa Telesā (series) by Lani Young YA paranormal romance, Samoa Scar of the Bamboo Leaf by Sieni A.M. YA contemporary, Samoa ♿ Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel literary novel, Samoa They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel literary novel, Samoa Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier Pacific fantasy, Guam author Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario YA contemporary, Filipina-CHamoru-American A Mansion on the Moon: A Guam Love Story by C Sablan Gault historical romance, generational, CHamoru (Guam) Lei and the Fire Goddess (series) by Malia Maunakea MG mythology adventure, Kānaka Maoli (Hawai'i)

House of Many Gods by Kiana Davenport generational novel, Hawai'i Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport historical novel, Hawai'i The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera classic children's novel, Māori All That We Know by Shilo Kino contemporary, Māori ♿ The Pōrangi Boy by Shilo Kino YA contemporary, Māori How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid contemporary semi-autobiographical, multiple Pacific characters 🏳️‍🌈 The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach fantasy mystery, Māori 🏳️‍🌈 Kāwai: For Such a Time as This (series) by Monty Soutar pre-colonial epic, Māori Auē by Becky Manawatu contemporary novel, Māori Dawn Raid by Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith MG historical 1970s, Samoan-Aotearoa Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku YA fantasy, Māori The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke by Tina Makereti novel, historical, Māori 🏳️‍🌈

The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa novel, Māori Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn novel, Tongan-Australian The Shark That Ate the Sun by John Puhiatau Pule literary novel, Niue [read here] Breadfruit (series) by Célestine Hitiura Vaite novel, humor, Tahiti Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz historical novel, Tahiti Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan novel, Fiji, Indian diaspora Maiba: A Novel of Papua New Guinea by Russell Soaba classic novel

Short Stories

This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila short stories, Hawai'i Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau'ofa short stories, Tonga The Unpainted Mask by Steven Edmund Winduo short stories, Papua New Guinea

Poetry

‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land by Brandy Nālani McDougall poetry, Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Hawai'i) Ocean Mother by Arielle Taitano Lowe poetry, CHamoru (Guam) from unincorporated territory (series) by Craig Santos Perez poetry, CHamoru (Guam) Coconut Milk by Dan Taulapapa McMullin poetry, Samoa 🏳️‍🌈 Rangikura by Tayi Tibble poetry, Māori Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila poetry, Tongan-Aotearoa Civilized Girl by Jully Makini poetry, Solomon Islands [read title poem here]

Nonfiction

Polynesian Panthers: Pacific Protest and Affirmative Action in Aotearoa New Zealand 1971 - 1981 edited by Dr Melani Anae, Leilani Tamu, Lautofa Luli Hine Toa by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku memoir, Māori activist 🏳️‍🌈 Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask Desert Warrior by M.B. Dallocchio memoir, CHamoru (Mariana Islands)🏳️‍🌈 No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon memoir, climate essays, CHamoru Don't Ever Whisper by Giff Johnson biography of Darlene Keju, Marshall Islands anti-nuclear activist [author not Pasifika] Samoan Queer Lives by Dan Taulapapa McMullin 🏳️‍🌈 Pasifika Heroes series by David Riley and Michel Mulipola illustrated legends/biographies, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands

Anthologies

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures anthology, climate focus (🏳️‍🌈several contributors) Vā: Stories by women of the Moana anthology, Pacific women Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, anthology Sista, Stanap Strong! anthology, Vanuatu Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia anthology, Kiribati, Palau, CHamoru, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, more An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific spec-fic anthology Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories edited by Paula Morris

Footnotes below:

Hi Laya! Do you have any recommendations for books that get beyond the Aspec 101 lecture or the few throwaway sentences about the character's identity and into deeper exploration into ace and/or aro themes? Looking particularly for adult fiction. I keep track of your reviews and read a lot of the same books, but I've been frustrated with shallow aspec rep lately and if you had any particular recommendations... 👀

Hmmmm you've caught me at something I've been kinda thinking about for a while haha, I feel like everything beyond those two things is like...it really ends up being more to do with whether you enjoy everything else about the book (i also struggle to gauge what other people consider more in depth tbh - and of course as i read more books, the bar is always moving)

I feel like, for adult books especially, when things are more in depth they fall into two categories: really intense on the aphobia and negative experiences, or brief direct discussion of sexuality but with many broader indirect aspec themes (friendship etc), which of course really depends on investment and engagement in the book itself (i see people say books 'barely explored' them when I thought it was in depth and vice versa) (okay maybe there's a third romance-with-ace-character category.....but i'm not big on romance)

#ToMe the things that stand out are the ones that explore specific aspects that I haven't seen as much and usually they end up being ones I have mixed feelings/complaints about. So there is that.

(also searched your blog for books I don't think you've already read....)

Beautyland - litfic coming of age about a woman who believes she's an alien - it's very much about feeling othered in an allo/amatonormative society. Reasonable amount of aphobia that is not super fun but it's at least is in a 'everyone else is weird' rather than self hating way?

Portalmania - sff litfic collection, heavy on the aphobia (and martial rape themes). again not Fun. (these first two on the 'in depth on negative experiences' I guess.)

I really like the specific exploration of queerplatonic yearning in At The Feet Of The Sun - obviously you have to be invested in the rest of that big ass book.

Painted Flock goes into complicated feelings around arospec crushes a lot without having Romantic Endings (Baker Thief also re: aro & demisexual qpr. it's just been ages since I read it)

The Eternal Library series has aroace, demi, greyaro MCs & platonic relationship focus - been ages since I read book 1 but I liked how the aspec-in-relationship was done in the more recent two. a form of slow-paced cozy-ish fantasy

I enjoyed the balance of positive & negative of Belle's aromanticism in Something Extraordinary - I see you didn't enjoy her in the prev book (I never read that one & also didn't love the demi in book 1 also) so maybe that'll be a miss but. idk

It's been a minute since I read the Constellation Trilogy and I feel like there's probably maybe less direct discussion than I remember actually but there's 3 aroace MCs and a focus on various platonic relationships, the main MC has the whole family pressure for marriage/kids thing.

It's not super my kind of book but Life Underwater has a grey-aro sex-repulsed ace MC, who is happy single other than this one person, and is partly about navigating their relationship

Is Love The Answer? is a manga about an aroace starting uni and figuring out her identity, which honestly I can't remember too many details about, but I enjoyed it a lot.

my tl:dr is really kinda it depends on if you like the rest of the book itself and tbh most of these I have mixed feelings on + are very depending on taste. I do not know if this helps....

#ask #book list #the constant shift between there are so many aspec books there are hardly any [under a specific request] aspec books lmao #I feel like. My attempt to put aside my personal feelings of good or bad to be semi* neutral for my database has warped my perceptions #of what other people consider good or bad haha #(*to an extent because I definitely leave books out bc im a hater or add my opinions in the notes sometimes)#(or yaknow. good rep not very good book kind of things. or great book but vague rep. which is what I usually gravitate to)

My 2025 Holiday Gift Guide (it's all books)

The Best Recent Art Collections Centered on Retro Sci-Fi and Space Art

Comics and Graphic Novels I've Enjoyed Recently

Nonfiction on Fiction: Histories of Books, Stories, and Other Media

From my Bookshop.org online account.

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