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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🏵️🌺🌹We’re celebrating the writers, artists, dreamers, rebels & storytellers shaping culture across the diaspora. Latine Heritage Month booklist: libbyapp.com/library/queerliblib/cu… Spanish booklist: libbyapp.com/library/queerliblib/ge…

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you like books? Do you like queers? Do you like supporting good causes? Well guess what? We made a "qlub" just for you! givebutter.com/TheQLUB Welcome to the Qlub. 😈📚

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m #currentlyreading The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes and will be reading The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. #booksky 📚💙 #latineheritagemonth

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@bookshop.org celebrates Latine Heritage Month with 15% off! Get 15% off your purchase by using code LHM26 The reading lists linked below were curated by booksellers at Latine-owned bookstores. What are you reading? #booksky 📚💙 #latineheritagemonth bookshop.org/info/latine-...

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Latine Heritage Month

Join Bookshop.org in celebrating Latine Heritage Month Sept. 15 to Sept. 30. Purchase a new book by a Hispanic or Latin American author and receive 20% off at checkout with code: LHM25

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the U.S., September is Library Card Sign-up Month! #booksky 📚💙 #librarycardsignupmonth www.ala.org/conferencese...

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! ❤️🧡💛💚💜🩷🤍🩵🖤🩶🤎 Celebrate and support queer authors this month (and every month)! #pride2026 #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Book haul! The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Flashlight by Susan Choi #booksky 📚💙

The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

Flashlight by Susan Choi

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month with 15% off these select books. bookshop.org/info/aapi @bookshop.org

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AAPI Heritage Month

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Book Haul! Support independent bookstores and support AANHPI authors. #booksky 📚💙 #AANHPIMonth

Strange Buildings by Uketsu
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn (nomad edition)
A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon (nomad edition)
The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Moroni (nomad edition)
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Started off 2026 strong by completing @thestorygraph.com’s #januarypageschallenge #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

January 2026 StoryGraph Wrap-Up. I read 4 books, 1,239 pages, and gave an average rating of 4.13 stars out of 5.

The average book length was 280 pages, and my average time to finish a book was 7 days. 100% of the books I read were fictional and digital.

Genres I read included LGBTQIA+, Contemporary, Mystery, Young Adult, and Literary.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Looking for a cute little sapphic holiday romcom? I recommend How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow. #booksky 📚💙 #bookrec #sapphicbooks #lgbtqbooks

Cover of “How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow” showing two young women walking a corgi on a snow covered street.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I’ve been trying to dry them for the last almost 12 hrs by standing them upright and using a fan. Fortunately, many were thrifted from discount bookstores, but there are just as many that I bought at retail price. 🥲 I hope I can save them. If not, I’ll just have to replace them I guess. #booksky

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I live in a townhouse, and my neighbor’s house flooded through our shared wall. I failed to remove my books from the bottom shelves of my bookcases in time, so I’ve got about 30 books with varying levels of water damage from just the corners to like 80% of the book. #booksky

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

September 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

StoryGraph graphic showing that I only finished 1 book in September, and it was an audio book.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

August 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki Death of an Idol by Rima Ray (indie author) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

StoryGraph summary for August 25 showing 4 books read, 571 pages, 19.55 hours, and an avg. rating of 4 stars.

Avg. book length was 316 pages, and avg. time to finish was 14 days.

100% of the books were fiction.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

July 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson Mina’s Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

July 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-up

# of books read: 2
# of pages read: 861
Avg rating: 3.5
Avg book length: 288 pages
Avg time to finish: 9 days

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#Currentlyreading The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson, and this lady Phyllis is so nosy and meddling! Definitely a busybody. #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

June 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Flux by Jinwoo Chong #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

My June 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up showing that I read 4 books, 820 pages, 8.87 audio book listening hours, and an average rating of 3.94.

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

65% percent to our goal of $50k, with just over a week to go! Let’s goooo 🌈 givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu

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Queer Liberation Library 2025 Pride Fundraiser!

By Queer Liberation Library

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen #booksky 📚💙

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To Vietnamese girls everywhere:
You are so loved.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My parents willingly told me about their experiences growing up in VN, but I never begged them to tell me. Had they said they never wanted to talk about it, I’d like to think that I’d be okay with that, that I wouldn’t pressure them, that I would respect their wishes.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I may have read someone else saying the same thing, but yeah… Our parents aren’t required to tell us about their trauma or the things they left behind. And insisting that they tell us can be very selfish and inconsiderate.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Reading A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen. There’s a part where Vivi is expressing her frustration about her mom never telling her the reason she left Vietnam and how she has a right to know bc she’s family. It made me think… We aren’t entitled to know about our parents’ trauma. #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I mainly read mystery/thriller, but I’ve been trying to get more into Asian fantasies lately.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Latest haul from Book Outlet’s $5.99 fiction sale #booksky 📚💙

The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song
To Gaze upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan
Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim, translated by Anton Hur

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE!🏳️‍⚧️ We’re kicking off our annual Pride Fundraiser today, which will keep the library thriving into the next year & beyond 🎉 givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’m not gonna be able to read even half of these, but it’s a start.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution - Shiri Eisner The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling The Lamb - Lucy Rose A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter - Carolyn Hays #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Some books from my shelves that I wanna read this month: They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune Speak of the Devil - Rose Wilding A Thousand Times Before - Asha Thanki Things We Lost to the Water - Eric Nguyen #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

You should always support your LGBTQ+ authors, but you should especially support them during Pride month. #booksky 📚💙 #lgbtqbooks

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

May 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up The Unworthy (started in April) by Agustina, Bazterrica You’re That Bitch by Bretman Rock The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

May 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up graphic showing 5 books read, 529 pages, 33.63 audio book listening hours, and average rating of 4.65. The average book length was 320 pages, and the average time to finish was 9 days. 4/5 books I read were fiction. 3/5 were audio books, 1 was print, and 1 was digital.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ever since high school, whenever asked, I would say my favorite book was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It’s still one of my favorites, but now I think I’d like to add The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams to that list. #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Also reading this since I’m part of the American Vietnamese diaspora #booksky 📚💙 #AANHPImonth

Hardcover copy of Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Starting #AANHPI month with “You’re That Bitch” by Bretman Rock #booksky 📚💙 #audiobooks #lgbtqia

Screenshot of “You’re That Bitch” by Bretman Rock audio version on Libby

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

April 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up April was a slow month for me. I had a really hard time finishing Gender Euphoria, bc my attention span was nearly nonexistent. It was also very busy work-wise, so I didn’t have much desire to read after having to look at screens all day. #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

April 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up summary graphic showing 2 books read 334 pages, 11.73 hours listened, average rating of 4.0. I read Gender Euphoria (nonfiction) and listened to Bunny (fiction).

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

March 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up Since March was Women’s History Month, I focused on reading/listening to books written by women. #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

StoryGraph collage for March 2025 showing 4 books read, 902 pages, 6.42 listening hours, and an average rating of 4.25 stars. The average book length was 293 pages. 50% fiction and 50% nonfiction.

I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Obsession by Nora Roberts

Woodworm by Layla Martinez

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“But why shouldn't housework be masculine? What could be more rugged and dad-ly than being strong and active, busting around looking after everyone's physical needs?” - Halo Jedha Dawn, from their essay “Gender-Creative Parenting and Me” in Gender Euphoria #transrightsreadathan #booksky 📚💙

I read infuriating reports of incompetent, self-centred husbands on feminist Twit-ter: women juggling the lion's share of housework and childcare during lockdown alongside full-time jobs. I refused to be one of them. Simply claiming nonbinary identity isn't enough to opt out of sex-based oppression - we also have to radically shift the patterns of our lives.

But despite the miasma of sexism that clings to housework like the bad smell around our unemptied food-composting bin, gender expectations are not why I clean more than Leo. I'm simply the able-bodied one. As I struggled with this I realised I had no models of domestic labour that weren't feminine. But why shouldn't housework be masculine? What could be more rugged and dad-ly than being strong and active, busting around looking after everyone's physical needs? It certainly keeps me fit - I'm more hench than l've ever been.

Gender is a figment of consciousness, and I'm free to conceive of my role however I want.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

TIL that what I like to do (read an e- or physical book while listening to the audio version) is called immersive reading.

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Any memoirs you’d recommend? I’m currently listening to Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died.” #booksky 📚💙

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Jay ☾ but for books @infinitereads.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

February 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-Up With February being Black History Month, I really wanted to read novels written by black authors. Those books were Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas, The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr., and The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré. #booksky 📚💙 #storygraph

February 2025 StoryGraph Wrap-up showing 5 books read, 1,039 pages, 14.87 audiobook listening hours, average rating of 4.15.

Highest rated reads were The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré 5 stars, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 5 stars, and The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. 4.25 stars

Average book length was 361 pages, and average time to finish a book was 8 days.

All books were fiction.

StoryGraph graphic of the books I read in February.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshing Rice (Novelette Booksellers February book club)
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

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