[wabi-wabi]

[1010ll]

[librarycards]

Hello, and welcome to Q2 book recs for 2026!!! this was a great 3 months for reading (not to mention writing!) in my life, and i've managed to gather books of a bunch of different forms and genres in this favs list. it was actually difficult to choose this time around, as i had even more 5 star books that didn't quite make the cut. as always, you can check out all my media recs on beehiiv, add me on my meticulously organized goodreads, and my other recs on tumblr here!!

E.M. Carroll, A Guest in the House

Andrew Joseph White, You Weren't Meant to Be Human

Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method

María Fernanda Ampuero, tr. Frances Riddle, Human Sacrifices

Shola Von Reinhold, Lote

Samuel Ace, Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash.

Jillian Tamaki, SuperMutant Magic Academy

MK Thekkumkattil, The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals (out in july!! preorder this NOWWW)

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get A Girl Pregnant

tagging:

@relicquery @variantoutcast @str-ngeloop @wintersnighttravell3r @flameswallower @glowcowboy @petesdragon @whorevanguard @nurlet @sewer-swan @fatehbaz @aldieb @ellisnyeland @podcastlesbian @nightbluefruit @lesbianlizzybennet @shadeslayer @hagbrigade @gettingintoknives @chicago-geniza @anti-parent @romancenjoyer @mustikoita @r00tvegetables @trans-axolotl @mishpokhe @maisysplayhouse @heavenlyyshecomes @gaysexworld @doikayt @abstractlesbian

+++ anyone who wants to!!!

[colorful4japan]

A window of a temple

Kyoto,Japan

2012

[unhistorical]

The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, Richard Wright, 1956.

[lostfunzones]

Poets Walk at Sunset. By Richard Cartwright.

[lifeticket2003]

my giving trees

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint

[theinternetarchive]

from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.

[girlfictions]

Ada Limón, from Calling Things What They Are (The Hurting Kind)

[girlfictions]

Louise Glück, from October

[girlfictions]

Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!

[sacred-portal]

[manafractal-deactivated20250906]

Kribo ( Curly ) Orchid — West Papua + Solomon Islands

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis”, Poems 1962-2012

[admitier]

[ID: A quote by Louise Glück.

It reads, “I pretended indifference / even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. / (red underlining) And the more deeply I felt / the less able I was to respond. (underlining ends)” End ID.]

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