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umm hi hello was anyone gonna tell me about these insane new covers for The Saint of Steel series by T Kingfisher? 😱

they're so gorgeous! they release July 8th in Australia, idk about the rest of the world, but I am so fling-flangin excited!!!!!

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since booklr's feeling chatty today: what's the most unique book you've read recently? the one that's been very different to anything else you've come across before

mine would be The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter, which is an Australian crime novel told in poems with a butch lesbian PI as the protagonist 👀

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TRCC Recommends: Novellas!

so during the week I sat down and looked through my Goodreads history to find some novellas to recommend and this is what I've come up with 👀 I tried to focus on the more obscure ones but there are some popular favourites too. I've listed them below the cut with genre but if you wanna ask about anything in particular, I'm happy to chat :3

(in order of the collage)

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito - historical horror

Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram - psychological horror

The Fireborne Blade - fantasy

Bloom by Delilah S Dawson - horror

The Life of Chuck by Stephen King - slice-of-life drama

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht - fantasy horror

Wherever Is Your Heart by Anita Kelly - romance

Cinder House by Freya Marske - fantasy

Over the Woodward Wall by A Deborah Baker (aka Seanan McGuire) - fantasy

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo - historical horror

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - classic drama

Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk - historical paranormal romance

Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) - sci-fi horror

Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan - drama

Marly's Ghost by David Levithan - romantic drama

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly - romance

Spear by Nicola Griffith - historical fantasy

Graveyard Shift by ML Rio - horror

The Haar by David Sodergren - horror

Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling - fantasy horror

The Oblivion Bride by Caitlin Starling - sci-fi

The Deep by Rivers Solomon - sci-fi

Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo - sci-fi

When My Heart Was Wicked by Tricia Stirling - drama

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh - fantasy

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ok so like ... where are the queer low-stakes/cozy fantasy books?

I already know about Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, Legends and Lattes, and The Honey Witch but from my very low-effort browsing on GR and in bookstores, I can't seem to find any others?

if anyone has recs for cozy fantasy books with queer protagonists, I would love to hear them but don't recommend me things that are only available on amazon/kindle, please and thank you <3

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Bash's 2025 Books

Alright, you convinced me, I've made a list of -everything- I read in 2025, all 310 titles. It'll be very interesting to see if the...

How many of the 310 books I read in 2025 have you read?

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Voting ended onJan 14

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my Novella November tbr pile 🧡

so I've just pulled every book off my shelves that's 200 pages or less (and To Clutch a Razor because I've got it from the library right now lol)

i think my plan for Novella November will be to just grab one of these whenever I have to take the bus somewhere. I've got a lot of library books at the moment but I'm hoping these can fill in when I can't listen to my audiobooks

are any of these on your TBR? 👀

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Read in March 2026

a solid effort for what's felt like such a busy month 👀 and such a broad range of books covered too - historical romance, memoir, fantasy, sci-fi, and my old friend horror all got a taste this month

my favourites were probably three of the reads i managed for the Trans Rights Readathon -- Herculine by Grace Byron, Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders and Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall. very different books but equal in their excellence, if I do say so myself

feel free to ask me about any of the books I read this month <3 I'm always happy to chat ^.^

Series read:

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall - 4/5

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older - 3/5

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older - 3/5

A Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older - 2/5

Australian books:

Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight - 3/5

See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill - 4/5

No One Is Safe by Ellie Marney - 4/5

Familiar authors:

A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander - 4/5

Make Me A Monster by Kalynn Bayron - 3/5

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon - 3/5

Portrait of a Shadow by Meriam Metoui - 1/5

Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent - 1/5

Other reads:

Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif - 3/5

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders - 5/5

Herculine by Grace Byron - 5/5

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles - 4/5

107 Days by Kamala Harris - 3/5

The Vegetarian by Han Kang - 3/5

Dead Med by Freida McFadden - 1/5

The Lamb by Lucy Rose - 4/5

The Perfect Nanny (aka Lullaby) by Leïla Slimani - 4/5

On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 2/5

Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers - 3/5

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang - 3/5

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If you liked Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, try A Letter to the Luminous Deep

They both include:

scholarly characters studying magical worlds

stories told in epistolary form

romance between characters with lots of personality