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Susan Maguire
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I can't believe I'm thinking about it this early BUT here are some suggestsions for the January 2026 @libraryreads.bsky.social LibraryReads list! Votes are due Dec. 1!
Book cover for SUCH A PERFECT FAMILY by Nalini Singh; a large suburban house engulfed in red and orange flames with white letters across the center Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9816461 Book cover for THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by Samahtan Sotto Yambao; a figure in a yellow jacket hangs gleefully off a train headed toward the reader against a pastel blue and pink and white clouded background. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815757 Book cover for GRACELESS HEART by Isabel Ibañez; ornate red and gold and blue frame containing a woman with long brown hair and a blue and red and white dress, holidng a small glowing gem against a sepia-toned backdrop of Florence. Booklist Review: https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9815198 Book cover for THE LAST LETTERS OF SALLY AND WALTER by Cammie McGovern; two small blue figures hold hands against a blue and orange and green Scrabble-checked background. Booklist Review: http://www.booklistonline.com/The-Last-Letters-of-Sally-and-Walter-McGovern-Cammie/pid=9816652
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Got a few minutes? Why not consider these books for LibraryReads' @libraryreads.bsky.social December list? One is nonfiction! Votes are due Nov. 1st! Which, somehow, is this weekend!
Book cover for EVERY DAY I READ: 53 WAYS TO GET CLOSER TO BOOKS by Hwang Bo-Reum; an illustration of a window surrounded by bookshelves on both sides and above with a desk, also full of books, and a few cats being cats. The BOOKLIST review calls it "a cozy ode to reading." Book cover for YOURS FOR THE SEASON by Uzma Jalaluddin. Teal background with white letters; each A in the title is an ornament, and there's also a red heart. I love basically everything Uzma Jalaluddin writes. The BOOKLIST review says, "Family, faith, and food are all important ingredients in Jalaluddin’s (DETECTIVE AUNTY, 2025) latest exemplary contemporary romance as her protagonists not only navigate celebrating Christmas in a small Alaska town, but also explore the traditions involved with Eid al-Adha, all while dealing with old family expectations and the new possibility of a future together." Book cover for Rebecca Armitage's debut, THE HEIR APPARENT. A teal background with yellow letters and a white woman's hand holding a gold crown in the center. The BOOKLIST starred review says, "Anglophiles will enjoy this intriguing and expressive story of self-introspection that takes place in the thinly veiled world of the British royal family. Armitage’s writing is spectacular, with rich dialogue and descriptions, a vibrant depiction of the burden of duty versus personal freedom, and unique insights into royal life." Book cover for Nobel Prize-winning Olga Tokarczuk's HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT. Off-white background with bluish purple letters and a many-rooted black birdlike creature in the center. From the BOOKLIST starred review, "Like Tokarczuk’s novel FLIGHTS (2018), it’s a constellation novel that brings together bits and baubles, legends and small-town tall tales, combining them into one, poetic, rich work of art that ebbs and flows like a stream."
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Ummmm...September is almost over? And once again I'm caught off guard? Nonetheless! I've got a few suggestions for November's LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social list; votes are due October 1st. Which is Wednesday!
Book cover for LIGHTBREAKERS by Aja Gabel. Yellow background covered in pink and orange half-circles with a cactus in the middle, birds circling, and two small human figures. Book cover for THE BOOKSHOP BELOW by Georgia Summers. Against a background of a starry night sky, an ornate purple and gold book shelf with an arched center area with an open book with a purple and red plant growing out of it. Book cover for LUCKY SEED by Justinian Huang. An imposing women in a red dress stands at the head of a red table, around which are seated various young adult-looking characters; there is also a small, white dog. Book cover for CURSED DAUGHTERS by Oyinkan Braithwaite. An illustration of a stunning young Black woman with her eyes closed faces a seeming mirror image of herself; all overlaid with an image of the sky and rough sea.
September 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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And a few more (there are a lot of books out in October!)
Book cover for THE WOMEN OF WILD HILL by Kirsten Miller; a tree made of red and orange flames against a blue-ish woodsy background with black and white letters in the forefront. Book cover for THE MAN OF MANY FATHERS by Roy Wood Jr.; a photo of a Black man (the author!) in a black coat with his hand on his chin against a wall of framed, illustrated portraits with the subtitle LIFE LESSONS DISGUISED AS A MEMOIR. Book cover for OXFORD SOJU CLUB by Jinwoo Park; words are in blocks of white text against a green background iwth a center image of spilled glasses in the center. Book cover for THE KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS by Julie Leong; a blonde woman in a blue hooded cloak and a brown-haired woman in a tan trenchcoat stand in a field overlooking a cozy-looking village with a smol dragon flying in the pinkish orange sky next to the text of the title.
August 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Just in time for you to speed-read, here are a few suggestions for October's LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social list. Are Big Fonts In for Fall?
Book cover for BAD BAD GIRL by Gish Jen; Peach background with big orange block letters and two geese, necks entwined in the "G" of Girl while one goose chomps on the letter "I" in Girl. Book cover for THE EX-BOYFRIEND'S FAVORITE RECIPE FUNERAL COMMITTEE by Saki Kawashiro, translated from the Japanese by Yuka Maeno; blue-black chalkboard sandwich board with a wood frame contains the title in white block letters with a li'l heart made of food at the bottom, against a pink background. Book cover for THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow; green and black background with a central golden sword with the image of part of a face on it, surrounded by vines and flowers. Book cover for THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell; a blue, red, and white bird in the style of Pacific Northwest Indigenous art (Tlingit?) atop an upside-down black bird with two fish above its wings.
August 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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And here's part 2 of my LibraryReads suggestions for September. Don't worry, I won't do this much work in the future. La.
Book cover for WHAT ABOUT THE BODIES by Ken Jaworowski; a white car projects its headlights in red across the black text of the title and author. Book cover for IT'S ME THEY FOLLOW by Jeannine A. Cook; the face of a Black woman with a colorful headband and white eyeliner around one eye reads a yellow book against a pink background. Book cover for YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White; white text with wormy creatures crawling between the letters against a black background. Book cover for SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE: MY CEMETERY JOURNEYS by Mariana Enriquez; a yellowy green background with orange letters and a pink angel with blue hair and toga lounging longingly on a yellow headstone with the subtitle on it.
July 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The August LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social list was just released...which means it's time to think about September! So many good books coming out in September; this is a short thread.
Book cover for THE LIBRARIANS by Sherry Thomas; the barrel of a black smoking gun against a red and black striped background; the smoke forms the silhouette of a face. Book cover for WHY I LOVE HORROR: ESSAYS ON HORROR LITERATURE by Becky Siegel Spratford; a tall, creepypasta-esque creature holds hand with a tiny human-looking figure; presented in black shadow against a white-ish background. Book cover for HARPER FALLS APART by Shauna Robinson; a chaotic autumnal scene (hay bales, apples, a falling-apart gazebo) with a woman sitting on a ladder, tangled in a string of fairy lights.
July 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Time to start thinking about the August @libraryreads.bsky.social list! Here are a few suggestions from your fave readers' advisor-ing editor (me):
Book cover for HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN by Daphne Fama; white text with sinuous red goop hanging from the letters against a purple and red background, with a woman in a pink shirt and purple skirt walking in front of the letters. Tag line: In this game there's one rule: SURVIVE. Book cover for GHOST FISH by Stuart Pennebaker. A goldfish, twisted in a circle with its face underwater, against a swirly tan and light turquoise background. Book cover for FAMILY SPIRIT by Diane McKinney-Whetstone; a woman's black silhouette with branches jutting out from the bottom against a turquouise background with a yellow sun, against a backdrop of red-shadowed brownstones. Book cover for AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz; an orange box full of pink and red noodles being picked up by a yellow robot hand holding chopsticks in front of a cityscape featuring yellow robots against a turquoise background.
June 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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May is almost half over (insert the usual refrain: HOW), which means it's almost June, which means it's time to think about voting for July picks for LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social! Here are a few humble suggestions from yours truly:
Book cover for A RESISTANCE OF WITCHES by Morgan Ryan; black background with cut-out crescent shape full of winding green and red plants and flowers. Book cover for THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; green background black vines, a hand with fingers curled, and a golden bird floating above the hand. Book cover for MAGGIE; OR, A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR by Katie Yee; green background with block letters in blue with pink and orange background. Book cover for SAVVY SUMMERS AND THE SWEET POTATO CRIMES by Sandra Jackson-Opoku, featuring a cartoon image of a Black woman with a shocked face in a blue shirt and green apron holding a plate with a slice of sweet potato pie with a slightly bloody knife in it.
May 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Tomorrow is April??? What? Anyway, here are a few humble suggestions for May's LibraryReads--votes due tomorrow! Which is April! @libraryreads.bsky.social
Book cover for ESPERANCE by Adam Oyebanji; red background with a black scary-looking bug-like creature on it; small ship in the corner. Book cover for IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang; fractured image of a dark-haired woman's face against a blue background. Book cover for DREAM ON, RAMONA RILEY by Ashley Herring Blake; illustrated image of two gals canoodling adorably on a picnic blanket next to a reed-banked river with a mountain and forest in the background and a purple and pink sky. Book cover for THE GIRLS OF GOOD FORTUNE by Kristina McMorris; gold text against a red background with illustrated black-outlined plumes of smoke.
March 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The March LibraryReads list just came out, but time stops for no reader, so here are my humble suggestions for April. @libraryreads.bsky.social
Book cover for NOTES FROM A REGICIDE by Isaac Fellman; gold frame surrounding a regal threesome with the image blurred out by blue lines on a blue background. Book cover for HAPPY LAND by Dolen Perkins-Valdez; a Black woman wearing a flower crown against a mountain sunrise in the background. Book cover for CAT'S PEOPLE by Tanya Guerrero; a painted black cat happily receives scritchy scratches from a variety of hands, against a pink background. Book cover for WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON by Venessa Vida Kelley; a man and a blue mermaid embrace against a full moon and a blue and gold art-deco background.
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Voting for LibraryReads @libraryreads.bsky.social for March? Need some suggestions? Here are a few, presented humbly. Special shout-out to THE FILLING STATION by Vanessa Miller, about the Tulsa Race Massacre, which will break your heart.
Book cover for THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar Book cover for TILT by Emma Pattee Book cover for THE FILLING STATION by Vanessa Miller Book cover for REKT by Alex Gonzalez
January 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM