#LibFaves25 day 8 - SINKHOLE AND OTHER INEXPLICABLE VOIDS by Leyna Krow - lyrical, often interconnected short stories that blend the surreal into everyday life, addressing family, climate change, and what it means to take care of one another.
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
#LibFaves25 day 8 - SINKHOLE AND OTHER INEXPLICABLE VOIDS by Leyna Krow - lyrical, often interconnected short stories that blend the surreal into everyday life, addressing family, climate change, and what it means to take care of one another.
Day 8 of #libfaves25 is SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME by Abby Jimenez. Samantha and Xavier have a meet cute at his vet office that almost goes awry. But after one amazing date, Samantha moves 2000 miles away. Can they make long distance work? Family drama, travel snafus, and a cute kitten! (read on audio)
December 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Day 8 of #libfaves25 is SAY YOU'LL REMEMBER ME by Abby Jimenez. Samantha and Xavier have a meet cute at his vet office that almost goes awry. But after one amazing date, Samantha moves 2000 miles away. Can they make long distance work? Family drama, travel snafus, and a cute kitten! (read on audio)
We are still adding plenty of unique titles to #LibFaves25. We are up to 300! I'm handing it off to the next monitor, @danthebookman.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We are still adding plenty of unique titles to #LibFaves25. We are up to 300! I'm handing it off to the next monitor, @danthebookman.bsky.social
This is why I like efforts like NPR’s Books We Love and #LibFaves25 because they lead me to discover less publicized titles.
This is a good reminder for those of us making best of lists that if yours looks like everyone else's, it's a sign that you need to read more widely. There is so much great work that often goes unnoticed because it doesn't get a splashy marketing campaign.
My condolences to writers and artists who have done great work but have cracked few (or no) year-end lists.
A first-world problem, to be sure, but I know how much that stings. Rest assured, you all did great and deserved better.
A first-world problem, to be sure, but I know how much that stings. Rest assured, you all did great and deserved better.
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is why I like efforts like NPR’s Books We Love and #LibFaves25 because they lead me to discover less publicized titles.
Annnnd we’re back in action! Huzzah! #LibFaves25
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Annnnd we’re back in action! Huzzah! #LibFaves25
My #libfaves25 choice for day 8 is Clare Leslie Hall's novel, BROKEN COUNTRY. You'll cry and you'll cheer in this tale of what happens to a family when a lost love reappears in their lives.
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My #libfaves25 choice for day 8 is Clare Leslie Hall's novel, BROKEN COUNTRY. You'll cry and you'll cheer in this tale of what happens to a family when a lost love reappears in their lives.
Day 8 pick #LibFaves25 Nora Roberts’ SEVEN RINGS. Roberts is always a comfort read for me, and this is a satisfying conclusion to one of her best trilogies. Terrific Maine setting, characters I’d like to be able to meet, and imaginative use of the paranormal. Loved this one
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Day 8 pick #LibFaves25 Nora Roberts’ SEVEN RINGS. Roberts is always a comfort read for me, and this is a satisfying conclusion to one of her best trilogies. Terrific Maine setting, characters I’d like to be able to meet, and imaginative use of the paranormal. Loved this one
It was confirmed this is not just a me problem... puts a damper on #LibFaves25 tracking for the moment, but please keep sharing your titles! we'll get back to tallying when this gets fixed (hopefully soon!!)
Sooo when I click on a hashtag and sort by latest, I’m not seeing anything from the last few hours (even for tags I know people have used since). Is this a me problem or an everyone issue?
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It was confirmed this is not just a me problem... puts a damper on #LibFaves25 tracking for the moment, but please keep sharing your titles! we'll get back to tallying when this gets fixed (hopefully soon!!)
Day 8 for #libfaves25 is PEARL CITY by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, the third book in the Phoenix Hoard urban fantasy series. My favorite urban fantasy of the last decade, hands down! @macmillanlib.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Pearl City
The no-holds-barred conclusion to the critically acclaimed, action-packed contemporary fantasy trilogy The Phoenix Hoard.Blade.Butcher.Thief.Worldbreaker.Emi...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Day 8 for #libfaves25 is PEARL CITY by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, the third book in the Phoenix Hoard urban fantasy series. My favorite urban fantasy of the last decade, hands down! @macmillanlib.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Day 8 #LibFaves25 THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott. Part 1 of duology (2 is also great). Terrific fantasy with some atypical elements I appreciated. But I can't beat the author's description (especially the alt text for the cover).
In case you were looking for a grimsweet fantasy roadtrip, THE WITCH ROADS is available now.
My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).
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First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Day 8 #LibFaves25 THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott. Part 1 of duology (2 is also great). Terrific fantasy with some atypical elements I appreciated. But I can't beat the author's description (especially the alt text for the cover).
BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan is yet another excellent book-club title!
Set in a fictional Ohio town during the 1940s, this one is a sweeping & intimate novel about love, secrets, forgiveness, & the choices made in the shadow of wartime.
A gem.
Day 8 of #libfaves25. Titles are in no particular order.
Set in a fictional Ohio town during the 1940s, this one is a sweeping & intimate novel about love, secrets, forgiveness, & the choices made in the shadow of wartime.
A gem.
Day 8 of #libfaves25. Titles are in no particular order.
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan is yet another excellent book-club title!
Set in a fictional Ohio town during the 1940s, this one is a sweeping & intimate novel about love, secrets, forgiveness, & the choices made in the shadow of wartime.
A gem.
Day 8 of #libfaves25. Titles are in no particular order.
Set in a fictional Ohio town during the 1940s, this one is a sweeping & intimate novel about love, secrets, forgiveness, & the choices made in the shadow of wartime.
A gem.
Day 8 of #libfaves25. Titles are in no particular order.
Day 8 #libfaves25: National Book Award winner, ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. An important look at the failure of the West to live up to its vaunted values.
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Day 8 #libfaves25: National Book Award winner, ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad. An important look at the failure of the West to live up to its vaunted values.
Today’s #LibFaves25 is WRECK by Catherine Newman – a sequel to SANDWICH, continuing the story of Rocky and her family two years later. Somehow the normal everyday things are laugh out loud funny in Newman’s book.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Today’s #LibFaves25 is WRECK by Catherine Newman – a sequel to SANDWICH, continuing the story of Rocky and her family two years later. Somehow the normal everyday things are laugh out loud funny in Newman’s book.
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For #LibFaves25
READ ME SLOW, Charish Reid
What lovely characters to root for! Takes the well-known themes of brother's best friend, May-September, workplace romance, and supports them richly and even poignantly.
READ ME SLOW, Charish Reid
What lovely characters to root for! Takes the well-known themes of brother's best friend, May-September, workplace romance, and supports them richly and even poignantly.
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For #LibFaves25
READ ME SLOW, Charish Reid
What lovely characters to root for! Takes the well-known themes of brother's best friend, May-September, workplace romance, and supports them richly and even poignantly.
READ ME SLOW, Charish Reid
What lovely characters to root for! Takes the well-known themes of brother's best friend, May-September, workplace romance, and supports them richly and even poignantly.
It's day 8 of #LibFaves25, and today's pick (in no particular order) is What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.
It's 2119, and most of the Western world is under water. People of this time are haunted by the abundance of the past, and one particular poem read at a dinner party in 2014...
It's 2119, and most of the Western world is under water. People of this time are haunted by the abundance of the past, and one particular poem read at a dinner party in 2014...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new ...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's day 8 of #LibFaves25, and today's pick (in no particular order) is What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.
It's 2119, and most of the Western world is under water. People of this time are haunted by the abundance of the past, and one particular poem read at a dinner party in 2014...
It's 2119, and most of the Western world is under water. People of this time are haunted by the abundance of the past, and one particular poem read at a dinner party in 2014...
#LibFaves25 day 8: AMERICAN SCARE (Fieseler). please please please read this, even (especially) if you think you know everything about anti-Communism, the New South & how FL became what it is: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
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December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#LibFaves25 day 8: AMERICAN SCARE (Fieseler). please please please read this, even (especially) if you think you know everything about anti-Communism, the New South & how FL became what it is: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
#LibFaves25 day 7: COUNTESS (Palumbo). a queered & spacefaring Monte Cristo. interstellar Gothic presented in the author's trademark evocative prose. a fast read but one that lingers: bookshop.org/p/books/coun...
Countess
Check out Countess - <b>A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations</b><BR> <BR>V...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#LibFaves25 day 7: COUNTESS (Palumbo). a queered & spacefaring Monte Cristo. interstellar Gothic presented in the author's trademark evocative prose. a fast read but one that lingers: bookshop.org/p/books/coun...
My #LibFaves25 Day 8 pick is THE MASK OF FEAR by Alexander Freed. This Star Wars novel takes place just after the rise of the Empire, and follows early resistance to Palpatine's new regime. Dense with political intrigue, but not without thrilling adventure!
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My #LibFaves25 Day 8 pick is THE MASK OF FEAR by Alexander Freed. This Star Wars novel takes place just after the rise of the Empire, and follows early resistance to Palpatine's new regime. Dense with political intrigue, but not without thrilling adventure!
My 8th pick for #LibFaves25 is A DROP OF CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennett. The most flawless mystery I've read in quite some time, or at least since the one before it in the Shadow of the Leviathan series, THE TAINTED CUP. Love Ana and Din.
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My 8th pick for #LibFaves25 is A DROP OF CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennett. The most flawless mystery I've read in quite some time, or at least since the one before it in the Shadow of the Leviathan series, THE TAINTED CUP. Love Ana and Din.
#LibFaves25 Day 8!
I've been a fan of Linda Holmes since Evvie Drake, and BACK AFTER THIS did not disappoint! Podcasts, Great Danes, humor ... It had it all!
I've been a fan of Linda Holmes since Evvie Drake, and BACK AFTER THIS did not disappoint! Podcasts, Great Danes, humor ... It had it all!
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#LibFaves25 Day 8!
I've been a fan of Linda Holmes since Evvie Drake, and BACK AFTER THIS did not disappoint! Podcasts, Great Danes, humor ... It had it all!
I've been a fan of Linda Holmes since Evvie Drake, and BACK AFTER THIS did not disappoint! Podcasts, Great Danes, humor ... It had it all!
#LibFaves25, day 8
Nora Roberts, The Seven Rings
Final book in the trilogy starting with The Inheritance. A good ending.
Nora Roberts, The Seven Rings
Final book in the trilogy starting with The Inheritance. A good ending.
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#LibFaves25, day 8
Nora Roberts, The Seven Rings
Final book in the trilogy starting with The Inheritance. A good ending.
Nora Roberts, The Seven Rings
Final book in the trilogy starting with The Inheritance. A good ending.
#LibFaves25 Day 8.
DAUGHTER OF DARING by Mallory O'Meara.
It is a a biography of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first professional stuntwoman. It also talks about how different Hollywood was for women in the 1910s, both in good and bad ways.
DAUGHTER OF DARING by Mallory O'Meara.
It is a a biography of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first professional stuntwoman. It also talks about how different Hollywood was for women in the 1910s, both in good and bad ways.
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#LibFaves25 Day 8.
DAUGHTER OF DARING by Mallory O'Meara.
It is a a biography of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first professional stuntwoman. It also talks about how different Hollywood was for women in the 1910s, both in good and bad ways.
DAUGHTER OF DARING by Mallory O'Meara.
It is a a biography of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first professional stuntwoman. It also talks about how different Hollywood was for women in the 1910s, both in good and bad ways.
#libfaves25 day 8: WHACK JOB by rachel mccarthy james “a history of axe murder” (alphabetical order by author this year, not ranked) #BookSky
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
A History of Axe Murder
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December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#libfaves25 day 8: WHACK JOB by rachel mccarthy james “a history of axe murder” (alphabetical order by author this year, not ranked) #BookSky
BRIGANDS AND BREADKNIVES by @travisbaldree.bsky.social is my next #libfaves25 pick! #cozy #fantasy series sees Fern, the bookseller from the prequel, move her bookshop next to Viv’s coffee shop, but then gets drunk and goes off on an accidental adventure with a warrior Elf & Goblin. #booksky 📚
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BRIGANDS AND BREADKNIVES by @travisbaldree.bsky.social is my next #libfaves25 pick! #cozy #fantasy series sees Fern, the bookseller from the prequel, move her bookshop next to Viv’s coffee shop, but then gets drunk and goes off on an accidental adventure with a warrior Elf & Goblin. #booksky 📚
Day 8 #LibFaves25 I'm changing my list, adding SLOW GODS by Claire North. It's utterly engrossing sci-fi, akin to Tchaikovsky and Martine in the way the detailed universe and culture building just flows as it's used to explore human experience. With a protagonist replaced by darkness beyond space.
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Day 8 #LibFaves25 I'm changing my list, adding SLOW GODS by Claire North. It's utterly engrossing sci-fi, akin to Tchaikovsky and Martine in the way the detailed universe and culture building just flows as it's used to explore human experience. With a protagonist replaced by darkness beyond space.