Book recommendation

March 2026’s newsletter: “Book Recommendation: The Summer War” Naomi Novik brings us another new fairy tale in her stand-alone novella, “The Summer War.” I love stories with close siblings, and siblings are a central theme in this novella. I try to avoid spoilers when writing my recommendations, but I fell into revealing more with this […]

January 2026’s newsletter: “My Reads from 2025” This is the time where I would usually send out an article ranking my reads from the previous year. I decided I didn’t like ranking the books I read. I was stressing while reading each book on how I would rank them, which goes against the point of

October 2025’s newsletter: “Spooky Book Recommendations for October” I love the Halloween season! And what better way to get into the spirit of things (sorry for the pun) than reading ghostly, ghoulish, and spooky books. I’ve picked out ten titles that I think you’ll enjoy, ranging from horror to fantasy to romance, and middle grade to

July 2025’s newsletter: “2025 Mid-Year Read Ranking” We’re halfway through the year, so it’s a good time to pause and see what books I’ve been reading. (Spoiler alert: it’s mostly the Stormlight Archives.) Since I’m not very good at ranking things, I’ve decided to try a new approach this year. Instead of ranking every book

June 2025’s newsletter: Book Recommendations with Asexual and Aromantic Characters for Pride Month It’s pride month! I was brainstorming what special main feature to do for pride month. Since I am aro-ace, I decided to do a list of books with aro-ace rep. Good asexual and aromantic representation is so hard to find in media,

May 2025’s newsletter: “Book Recommendation: Cattywampus.” “Cattywampus” by Ash Van Otterloo is a stand-alone, LGBTQ+, middle grade, witch contemporary-fantasy. It was my March 2025 Trans Rights Readathon read. My librarian cousin recommended this book months ago, but it took me a while to get around to reading it. Why did I wait so long?! “Cattywampus”

March 2025’s Newsletter: “Queer Books to Buy Before They’re Banned.” It’s important to support diverse authors now more than ever. The future of the book industry is uncertain. Queer books are already banned in many places. Whether or not they’ll be labeled “porn” and banned on a national level remains to be seen. I’ve compiled

January 2025’s newsletter: “Ranking My Reads From 2024.” Hello, friend! Another year of reading is over. Because I like torturing myself, it’s time to rank my reads from 2024! Ranking things is really hard. I read so many great books and series! (Maybe I should do a tier system next year? Thoughts?) Since ranking great

November 2024’s newsletter: Series Recommendation of Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians Librarians are lying to you. (Sorry, Heidi. I’m sure you’re not in on the conspiracy.) They don’t want you to read “Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians” by Alcatraz Smedry (under the identity of Brandon Sanderson): an action-packed middle grade, adventure, 5-book series. If you

My Ultimate Compendium of Fantastic Fiction: Looking for your next literary adventure, but you’re not sure where to start? The Ultimate Compendium of Fantastic Fiction is a helpful list of every fiction book that I’ve read and would recommend, for middle grade, YA, and adult genres. (This includes books I’ve recommended in my previous posts!)