472/600 💙📚🌈📚 📖: Good Girl by Aria Aber Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I liked this take on an immigration story

471/600 💙📚 📖: Counterattacks at Thirty by Wan-pyung Sohn Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Totally get the impulse to attack back at the systems that trap us

470/600 💙📚⏳📚 📖: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: A stirring story of 2 friends and how they fought for what and who they believed in

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469/600 💙📚 📖: Small Comfort by Ia Genberg Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Quirky stories about money

468/600 💙📚 📖: Foreign by Sonora Jha Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: The first US publishing of this story of the harms against Indian farmers and the sobering actions they take to regain agency of their lives, told from a perspective that is both of and outside the culture.

467/600 💙📚🩸📚 📖: The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: The atmospheric storytelling that T Kingfisher excels at

466/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Beautifully told. Both human and nature given their due. Interesting exploration of what we’ll give up to protect those we love.

465/600 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: No, I don’t want to body hop

464/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Death Valley by Melissa Broder Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I enjoyed (that feels like the wrong word) the strange way of exploring anticipatory grief

463/600 💙📚 📖: Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: a nuanced, at times humorous exploration of yellowface and yellow fever

462/600 💙📚🪐📚 📖: For Human Use by Sarah G Pierce Genre: Speculative Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A dick measuring contest over dead bodies

461/600 💙📚⏳📚 📖: Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: What a beautiful story about finding home in a world that refuses it for your people

460/600 💙📚⚡️📚 📱📖: Driver’s Seat by Abigail Abbas Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A light thriller that laughs at the absurdity of life. Touched on the difficulty of motherhood and would have loved that to be explored more.

Great reading month. Love all 3 of these 5 star reads. #booksky

459/600 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Retro by Jessica M Goldstein Genre: science fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: fun premise explored with humor and heart

455/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📱📖: A Cow Gives Birth at Night by Patjim Statovci Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Interesting exploration of leaving your war-torn home and making a new place home.

458/600 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Monstera by Delilah s Dawson Genre: Literary horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Atmospheric & mysterious, instantly transports you into this new life with Lucy from page 1 as she escapes her past & starts building a home for the first time. I love the role that plants play

457/600 💙📚 📱📖: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu Genre: Short stories Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: an interesting collection of stories exploring the necessity, absurdity, and impossibility of communication, especially as an artist in this age of technology.

456/600 💙📚 📱📖: Smalltown Godzilla by Teng Kuan Kiat Genre: Short stories Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 I’m thankful that stories like these are translated into English so that we can learn more of other cultures. These stories explore themes of family, identity, and language.

454/600 💙📚 📱📖: She Isn’t Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper Genre: Weird girl lit Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: This is weird, but through the weirdness we are encouraged to confront all the ways we’re pushed into boxes instead of loved as we are.

453/600 💙📚 📱📖: Double Take by Tashie Bhuiyan Genre: Magical Realism Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: These sisters’ story brought me to beautiful tears. What a beautiful exploration of sisterhood, belonging, and identity. Thank you Gallery books for the eARC for review.

452/600 💙📚⚡️📚 📱📖: Clear Water by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: A subtle, eery exploration of those that fall through the cracks and the people of power that let it happen

451/600 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I felt seen…and have better words to advocate for myself

450/600 💙📚 📱📖: Reputation by Amanda Coreishy Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: So much of Asiyah's exploration of her Muslim faith and the patriarchal influences from all sides was so famiiar to my deconstruction journey from evangelical Christianity.

449/600 💙📚🌈📚 📖: No God but Us by Bobuq Sayed Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: explores both the micro (identity) and macro (authoritarianism) well

448/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Monica Ojeda Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Super trippy but a good stretch read

447/600 💙📚⏳📚 📖: There is Only One Sin in Hollywood by Rasheed Newson Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A good reminder of how recent and relevant this homophobic and racist history is

446/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: What a unique premise for exploring the idea of community and the depth of grief.

445/600 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Book of Chuck by Latoya Watkins Genre: Speculative Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: a family history with a speculative twist