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Books to Get Over a Reading Slump
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items When work picks up and life gets busy, I can realllly fall off on my reading— these are books that have helped bring me back!
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Fantastical Fiction
Sapphic Selections
F’real real Fiction (Realistic)
Fantastical Fiction
A well-written LitRPG that’s a quick read with hysterical world building and top tier characters (including a cat named Princess Donut). Essentially the whole world is ending in one big intergalactic game show and there’s no choice but to play along—...
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Series #1)
Is this super over-recommended on booktok? Yes. Is it also so much fun to read?? YES. Yearning, dragons, shadowy love interest, and an academy setting? I finished it in like 2 days.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
I didn’t expect this book to be a 5-star read for me, but I LOVED it. A deeply weird detective, Ana, and her equally uncomfortable assistant, Din, investigate murder in a fantasy world full of threatening creatures and social tensions with humor, awk...
The Tainted Cup (Hugo Award Winner) by Robert Jackson Bennett, Paperback
Sapphic Selections
The whole Locked Tomb series perfectly balances humor with complex plots. It was described as lesbian necromancers in space, which is all true but it’s somehow even more than that!
Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb Series #1) by Tamsyn Muir
Following three women across centuries and continents, this book is such an interesting look at dependency in relationships! It’s got the 1500s Spanish countryside, Bridgerton-esque regency balls, and a college campus—all as a backdrop for vampiric a...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab, Hardcover
Super quick read but one of the most poetic (and trippy) explorations of intertwining lives and love— I still think about it often, and the co-writing is perfectly executed!
This Is How You Lose the Time War
F’real real Fiction (Realistic)
On the surface: some friends start a company. But this book really looks at how friendship evolves over stretches of success, obsession, and workaholism, especially as disability, co-dependency, and emotional intimacy collide. Such nostalgic video ga...
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