Fave YA I read in 2019

In 2019 I got back into reading YA, after a year of reading almost none. This post lists my favorite new to me young adult fiction that I read in 2019, organized by trope. (Not all of them were published in 2019, of course.) It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance and particularly queer …

Late 2019 Books with Trans and/or Non-Binary Authors

Here are some books by trans and/or non-binary authors with release dates from July 2019-December 2019. Here is my list of books by trans and/or non-binary authors with release dates from the first half of the year. It is not my intent to out anyone. If I have listed identities in error that you would …

Best Reads August-October 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in August, September, and October 2019. (I usually do a separate post for each month but wasn't able to this time. I'm glad to have finally gotten this post up!) This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, …

Review of It’s a Whole Spiel

It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories (anthology) edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman. Forward by Mayim Bailik. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2019. I really enjoyed this collection of YA short stories centering Jewish characters written by Jewish authors! It's a very strong collection, with only a few stories that …

Fall 2019 Books I’m Anticipating

This is a list of books I'm excited about that are coming out September-November 2019. Disclosure: All links to Amazon will be affiliate ones. If you buy through those links, I will make a small amount of money on that sale (which I plan to use to buy books to review), but it will not add …

My A-Spec April Readathon TBR

@jellyfable is hosting an A-Spec April readathon (#AspecApril) from April 1-14, and this is my TBR! I like to have options for reading challenges, so I'm including a few for each category. These books lean to romance, YA and SFF as my reading does (esp romance). I am including some rereads because I often reread and I'd …