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Stack the Shelves
Spring Readathon
May 18th!
Books Mentioned -
The Day the World Stopped Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Spratford
May
Decolonizing Language by Ngugi W. Thiong’o
Nonfiction, modern African literature, post colonial literary criticism
And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi Griffis
YA horror, Soviet Russia, historical, “came back wrong”
Eliza, from Scratch by Sophia Lee - YA rom-com, cooking, high school, Korean food
The Lost Queen by Aimee Phan - YA fantasy, magic, sisters, Vietnamese lore, past lives
Titan of the Stars by E.K. Johnson - YA sci fi horror, space, aliens, Mars, trapped on a spaceship
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala - YA mystery, tarot, teen detective, vanished girl
You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne - YA rom-com graphic novel, time loop, friendship
Home Has No Borders by Sona Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed - Short story collection, YA, South Asian writers
The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei - Historical fiction, Singapore, family saga, sisters
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - Historical fiction, 19 century, Chile, San Francisco, female writer sent to cover civil war
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - Literary fiction, chosen family, friendship between elderly woman and the young man she saves
My Friends by Fredrick Backman - Literary fiction, 25 year saga about four friends in a seaside town
The Tenant by Freida McFadden - Thriller, man rents a room to a woman who is not what she seems
The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North - Thriller, serial killer, criminal profiler solving case he survived as a child
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - Fantasy, dark academia, sapphic romance
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle - Urban fantasy, NYC, chef who can taste ghosts
Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
Sci fi, eco-fiction, flooding, artist bonding with elderly woman who remembers the city’s history
The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve - Sci fi, mystery, technology that lets you visit the most pivotal moment of your life for one hour
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - Historical horror, sapphic erotica, cannibals, medieval, surreal
Never Flinch by Stephen King - Horror, next Holly book
Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan - Third in Skyland series
The Love Haters by Katherine Center
Contemporary romance, swimming, cynicism, Key West
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
Romantasy, divination magic, gothic, hot knight
A Fate Forged in Fire by Hazel McBride
Romantasy, Celtic inspired, magic, dragon riding, hot prince
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship by Tiffany Watt Smith
Nonfiction
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang - Literary horror, friendship, technology that enhances empathy
Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian - Nonfiction, queerness in wildlife and nature
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke by Leigh Claire la Berge - Nonfiction
So Many Stars: an Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro de Robertis
Nonfiction
Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
Literary fiction, trans protagonist, love, betrayal, “allure of bougie domesticity”
And They Were Roommates by Page Powars - Queer YA romance, trans protagonist, boarding school
Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus
Queer YA romance, cult, small town, secret love
Summertime by Yigit Karaahmet, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury
Queer thriller, Turkey, “the Birdcage but by Patricia Highsmith”
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
YA horror, Southern gothic, small town, vanished teen
Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky
YA horroromance, contemporary gothic, family secrets, mysterious garden
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson - Literary fiction, funny, family road trip
Gingko Season by Naomi Xu Elegant - Literary fiction, finding yourself after a heartbreak, friendship
The South by Tash Aw
Gay literary fiction, family, summer, small town, secret love
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis - Cozy fantasy, magic school in New England, werewolf protagonist
June
The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton - Romantasy, forbidden love, forbidden magic, political intrigue
A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry - Fantasy, fairy revenge, historical, French revolution
A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek - Queer YA fantasy, sapphic Swan Lake retelling
A Magic Deep and Drowning by Hester Fox - Historical romantasy, Dutch Golden Age, Little Mermaid retelling
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab - Queer spec fic, immortality, romance
Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell - Historical fantasy, Hercules retelling, funny and sweet
I Think I’m in Love with an Alien by Ann Aguirre - Romantiscifi, space, rom-com
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes - Queer fantasy, ghosts, funny, magical past
The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall - Fantasy, circus, mystery, dark magic, revenge
The Palace of Illusions by Rowena Miller - Historical fantasy, Paris, 1900s World’s Fair, magical clockmaker
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older - Sapphic cozy space mystery, third in series
A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux - Fantasy, journey through evil forest, monsters
The Beautiful Maddening by Shea Ernshaw - YA contemporary romantasy, family love curse, magic tulips
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King - Queer fantasy, magic, memories contained in pencils, lost connections across time and space
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare
Queer romantiscifi, sapphic, two women in different worlds trying to find the right timeline to be together
Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings - Sci fi, mysterious doors to new worlds, sisters
Best of all Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
YA spec fi thriller, survival story
The Two Lives of Faven Sythe by Megan O’Keefe - Sci fi, missing person search uncovers galaxy-wide conspiracy, space opera
Pearly Gates by Bonnie Solomon - Queer cozy funny fantasy, drag queen protagonist in after life, found family
Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda - Horror, Greek tragedy retelling, female empowerment
Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion
Japanese mystery horror, disturbing architecture
This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman - Queer fantasy, high fantasy, magic princess on a quest, fairytale satire
Work Nights by Erica Peplin - Queer literary fiction, young woman in love triangle, NYC
Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee
Queer Jewish new adult literary fiction, 1990s road trip from NYC to San Francisco
These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
Queer new adult historical fiction, 1960s Atlanta, queer Black community, civil rights movement
If I Told You I’d Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel - Sapphic romance, if Mr. and Ms. Smith was gay
Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski - Queer literary fiction, bisexual protagonist, woman risking it all for a second chance at first love
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell - Sapphic historical romance, archaeologist teaming up with childhood enemy
Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter - Sapphic contemporary romance, spicy, small town, Texas football
It’s Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Cli-fi thriller, queer, family saga, near future sci fi
What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall
Nonfiction
El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott - Thriller, all woman pyramid scheme, Detroit, crime, female friendship, power
The Dark Library by Mary Anna Evans
Gothic historical thriller, family secrets, dark academia
The Farmhouse by Chelsea Conradt - Horror, family moves to a creepy house in the middle of nowhere, corn!!!!!
Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto - Mulan reimagined as a contemporary romance
Someone Knows by Vi Keeland - Thriller, sexy, English professor has a dark past come back to haunt her, murder, affair
The Compound by Aisling Rawle - Dystopian thriller, Lord of the Flies meets Love Island, reality TV
Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady
Contemporary romance, rivalry between two managers at the same bookstore
Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Cozy mystery, murder on a Parisian river cruise
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
Spec fic, what if there was a scientific cure for heartbreak
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
Crime thriller, family drama, Southern, inspired by The Godfather
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater - Historical romantasy, 1940s Appalachia, luxury hotel, magic
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager
Historical horror, trains, murder, 1940s midwest America
The Primal of Blood and Bone by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sixth in the Blood and Ash series
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Historical romance, 1980s, NASA, astronauts
The Dry Season by Melissa Febos - Celibacy memoir
