#i started reccing books when i worked at the bookstore in michigan and have been unable to turn it off ever since

[thoughtsofthegirlwiththecurl]

9 books

9? Just 9 most favorite books of all time? Oh the inhumanity! Thank you for the tag @cricketnationrise I had a ten minute existential crisis and then wrote the following, which is not particularly helpful and breaks all the rules:

Tortall series by Tamora Pierce

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Innkeepers series by Ilona Andrews

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu

everything Margaret Rogerson has written

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

everything T Kingfisher has written (minus her horror, I'm working my way up to it)

It's also a fuck ton of books (as well as a lot of books people already know about), so I also offer my 9 favorite books I've read this year ("isn't that just introducing even MORE books? Are you just using this platform to get as many books as possible in front of people's faces?" I hear you ask, to which I say "shhhhhhhhh")

The Witch's Hand by Nathan Page [Hardy Boys but gayer and also a comic]

Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best [queer locked room mystery in space]

Dance with the Devil by Kit Rocha (3rd book of a trilogy) [post-apocalyptic hopepunk romance featuring found family + building a community + everyone's casually bi]

Network Effect by Martha Wells [murderbot continues to reluctantly save the galaxy and make friends against its will; #5 in the series, though I maintain the events of book #6 happen before this one]

The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton [witches, romance, very proper lady pirates in flying houses, victorian society, old lady cat fights. Technically book #2, but I think it could work as a standalone]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna [contemporary, found family, romance]

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson [possessed lady knight attempts to save world, very murderbot vibes actually, ace rep]

Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian [gay 1950s cozy British mystery]

My Lady Jane by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows [it's just delightfully silly, reimagining of Tudor history, now with spontaneous animal shape shifting, murder plots that DON'T succeed, inappropriately timed horses, enemies to lovers arranged marriage]

Tagging @vhenadahls @dancemakestheworldgoround @pendwick @starthecozy @appalamutte @zimmerdouche @alocalband @bookish-owlette @theunembarrassedalto and literally anyone else who sees this!! Gimme those recs!!

#tag games #book recs #i started reccing books when i worked at the bookstore in michigan and have been unable to turn it off ever since #things it killed me not to include on the first list: Anne of Green Gables. Red White and Royal Blue. Lord of the Rings. #The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries. Nancy Drew. all of Alexandra Petri's books. Agatha Christie.