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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Back on the No AI Starter Pack trend, this time with the devils! @elizabethmay.bsky.social and I released the Seven Devils duology in the midst of lockdown, which kept us from promoting the series as well as we would have liked. (1/2)

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Idk how many more fucking times I can say “promoting and buying HP related stuff is directly affecting trans peoples lives” to get it through people’s FUCKING SKULLS YOU CANT SEPARATE THE ART FROM THE ARTIST WHEN THEY ARE ACTIVELY DOING HARM.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I love using libby, especially since I recently figured out I could get an Edmonton Public Library card as a U of Alberta student, it’s been a GAME CHANGER for reading on my kobo! I’m reading Blood Like Magic rn (LOVING it), and hoping to start Babel this weekend!

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Babel by RF Kuang audiobook and These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs audiobook

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Blood Like Magic and Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury ebooks

Screenshot of my libby loan page with The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis ebook and The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez audiobook

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Valid by Chris Bergeron ebook

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wrote a bit of a thing on instagram, where I assume I'm not preaching to the choir AS much as here, but I want to reiterate the point that the founder of TDoV Rachel Crocker made a few years ago, that Trans Visibility can & should focus on visible allyship. Not 1 or 2 posts a year. Real allyship

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My March reading has been very good. I love it. So many new favourites, plus reread some old favourites that hold up (Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Truth Telling, The Wicked Bargain, The Companion)! Read quite a few for my Trans Reading Challenge! Hope to finish 2/3 of my CRs too! #transbooks #books

Storygraph March 2025 ratings collage; Catching Fire and Mockingjay (5), Oathbound (5), Emberclaw (5), Truth Telling (5), Tempest Take Me Home (5), The Revenge of Captain Vassia (5), The Wicked Bargain (5), By Way of Sorrow (3.5), Survivor’s Guilt (4), Sunrise on the Reaping (5), The Woods All Black (4), Paper Dolls (5), The Gentleman’s Gentleman (4), Strange Bedfellows (4), Muted Vol 1 (4), This Delicious Death (4), Miss Major Speaks (5), The Flowered Blade (5), The Companion (4), The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (4).

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you’re posting trans books recommendations and I don’t see a single trans women or trans femme character written by a trans women or trans femme author, side eye 👀 absolute side eye

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I don’t have any current reads right now and it feels so weird! I finished The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo earlier and haven’t picked my next read yet 🤣 I have no idea what to read next

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

While I'm really glad reading challenges help cis readers find new books by trans & nonbinary authors, I hope those same readers take these challenges as an opportunity to interrogate their own biases.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I added some books to my trans spreadsheet today, and we’re up to 1,280 books! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Trans Lead Books/Trans Authors

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Update: I finished both of them today and OH MY GOD 5 STARS EACH!!! 😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 @cknightwrites.bsky.social @cozywitch.bsky.social yall are both amazing and writing gay and trans pirates 🏴‍☠️❤️

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Looking for a year long trans reading challenge? This is my second year hosting the Trans Reading Challenge! If you use Storygraph, I made a challenge on there. If you just want the prompts, head over to my IG or take a look with this link! app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

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Trans Reading Challenge Year 2 (2025)

Year 2 is here! Last year, I created this challenge because I didn’t find a reading challenge ...

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy pub day to my first historical romance, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN Buy links: tjalexander.com#books4 And a little🧵 about it...

Me, a white nonbinary person with glasses, holding up the book.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The vibes of my current reads are: - Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ - Queer af 🏳️‍🌈 - Queer pirates 🏴‍☠️ And I love it 😤🙌🏼 might even reread The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa ps, thanks @cknightwrites.bsky.social for an ARC! I’m loving it 🙌🏼

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I’ve read Legendborn 3 times now, and it’s the type of book that gets better with EVERY read. I’ll be honest, I hated Sel the 1st time. The 2nd time, he started to grow on me, and the 3rd? I love him. But golden retriever Nick has been my fav since my 1st read through 🙂‍↕️

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haley | IG: @spoonie.reads @spooniereads.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

well, it's official! my gender-affirming sterilization surgery is happening in 2 weeks (march 14— fingers crossed nothing comes up). i'm lucky to have insurance but it's not all covered:( venmo: haleystrass paypal: haleylana18@gmail.com please boost if you can! US donors get free stickers:)

image of Haley (a white person with glasses and a blue mask) holding up a colorful "read queer all year" sticker. text says: "if you want to contribute, my venmo is haleystrass" "or donate via my ko-fi in bio!" "if you donate $10 or more, i'll mail you a sticker! (US only)" "lol just got the official cost of my sterilization surgery,,, $2365. surgery is in 2 weeks!"

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Can I go on TikTok for one night at the end of each month and not see the typical “how do people read 20+ books a month? That’s impossible” videos/comments like fuckkkkkkkk off

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s my birthday so have 24 (or more…) recommendations from me! If you take any recommendations from me, make it these ✨ (1/2) #books #booksky #diversebooks #transbooks

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. The title is in black block letters and says “24 Books for my 24th Birthday”, with my username readwithrhys underneath in smaller black block letters.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: Seven Devils by L.R. Lam and Elizabeth May, Dragonfall by L.R. Lam, The Falconer by Elizabeth May (2025 edition), Legendborn by Tracy Deonn.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: Jade War by Fonda Lee, The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi, A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White, Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I just stayed up wayyyyy past my bedtime to finish this book…SO worth it. The Broposal by Sonora Reyes is phenomenal and you should read it

Screenshot from Storygraph of The Broposal by Sonora Reyes. I rated it 4 stars

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m going to make a thread of my trans book releases IG posts here, starting with January/February!

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. In black block letters, the title in the middle says “January/February 2025 Trans Book Releases”, and to the left is the word “love” in the trans flag colours (light blue, light pink and white). Underneath the title is my username readwithrhys in black.

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “January” books: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto (adult sci-fi; BIPOC a gender MC), Trans & Disabled (essays), Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan (adult litfic; BIPOC trans woman MC), Single Player by Tara Tai (adult romance; BIPOC nonbinary MC), The Dark One by Taylor Hubbard (adult erotica; trans man MC, trans man LI, T4T), The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill (adult magical realism; trans man MC)

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “January” books: This Feast of a Life by Cynthia So (YA contemporary; BIPOC nonbinary MC), Ring by Michelle Lerner (adult litfic; nonbinary MC), Don’t Let Cha Cha Die by Carrie Hetherwell (adult sci-fi; nonbinary MC), The Quick and the Dead by Emma Hinds (historical fiction; nonbinary MC), Sweet Girls and Bluebirds by Caroline Sophia Hamel (YA contemporary: trans woman MC)

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “February” books: Murder in the Dressing Room by Holly Stars (adult mystery; nonbinary MC), A World Worth Saving by Kyla Lukoff (middle grade fantasy; trans boy MC), A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States (nonfiction), Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis (adult fantasy; trans lesbian MC), Love in Exile by Shon Faye (memoir), Orion and the Cloudkillers by Harri D. Gordon (YA contemporary; trans boy MC), Ikarys and the Damned by Taylor Hubbard (adult fantasy; trans masc MC), Cleavage by Jennifer Finney Boylan (memoir)

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Aromantic spicy fantasy book rec of the day. A tired witch takes a solo holiday to a cottage and summons an agender, aromantic sex demon to help her… relax. The two have a lot of fun… relaxing. This is so great! #booksky #queerbooksky #aromanticawarenessweek

In the Care of Magic by Robin Jo Margaret. A white curvy woman standing in front of a kneeling agender demon with grey skin, in the woods

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rereading The Hunger Games series in today’s society is truly a different experience than when I first read them in 2012, and even when I reread them in 2020 and 2023

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I have so many books on my physical tbr and what do I do? Go to the library and get 5 more books (bottom 5) 🧍🏼 HEHE WHOOPS. I love the 2 local libraries near me 😌

Stack of library books. In order from top to bottom: the knowing by tayla talaga, immortal dark by tigest girma, the t in lgbt by Jamie Raines, false hearts by lr lam, bellies by Nicola dinan, the art thieves by Andrea l Rogers, the brightness between us by Eliot schrefer, dear Medusa by Olivia a Cole, metal from heaven by August clarke, and black leopard red wolf by Marlon James

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Why do publishers change font size in the middle of a fucking series? The Jasmine Throne has normal sized font for a tall paperback, and the audiobook is 19 hours 42 minutes. The Oleander Sword, however, has smaller text (and it’s very obvious smaller), audio is 19 hours 7 minutes. STOP THISSSSS

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I finished and YEAAAA I’m in love with the world. extremely tempted to pick up The Oleander Sword now

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This picture is like a month old now (gotten some new ones since then) but this is like 45% of all the books I own, and most (not all) of these books feature LGBTQ main characters. I’ve read quite a few, but if you see a favourite of yours, do comment so I can bump it up if I haven’t read it LOL

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m on page 172 of The Jasmine Throne and once again, WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ THIS?? My physical tbr is definitely full of books that when I read them, I’ll say “WHY TF DIDNT I READ IT SOONER”

Book cover of The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We have three weeks of Black History Month left. Go give these incredible people a follow!!! #blackhistorymonth

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I started reading this earlier, didn’t really know what it’s about but it got me hookedddddd

Book cover of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m finally reading To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, and I’m enjoying it so far omg. Why did I wait so longggggg

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I started my reread of The Final Strife for my Trans-cendent Tales book club February pick, and oh my GOD I love this world and this trilogy 😭🩵

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This book should be required reading for every Canadian. I’m rereading it for a class so I can write a book review on it through the lens of an educator, and I’m reminded of how this peels back the layers of history in Canada that isn’t usually taught in k-12.

The book cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I finished this like 10 minutes ago and oh my god new favourite 😭😭🩵🩵

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 01/02/2025

*stares directly into camera, specifically at all the people who told me I was being dramatic when I said they would attempt this*

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I started this earlier today and I can already tell it will be a favourite of 2025! I love Edward Underhill’s writing, and this is his adult debut with a trans man MC 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m 30% through and it’s amazing #trans #transbooks #books #booksky

Book cover for The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

January was a great reading month! So many new favourites and reread 4 favourites! 5th year in a row that seven devils is my first read of the year (and I love my little tradition) 😌 #books #booksky #transbooks #diversebooks

Storygraph January wrap up. 25 books read, 8,735 pages, 4.46 average rating. 3 highest rated reads shown are Nona the ninth, Harrow the ninth, and the falconer (all 5 stars). Average book length 347 pages, average time to finish 2 days. 100% fiction. Highest genres are lgbtqia+, young adult, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Compared to December is 0% books, + 60% pages. Graph in the bottom left for amount of pages read each day. Print

All of my January reads & star ratings ; seven devils 5, an honored vow 5, the sapling cage 4, yesterday is history 4, crownchasers 4.5, self-made boys 5, thronebreakers 5, the dark tide 2, adrift in currents clean and clear 4, single player 5, the brilliant death 4, so let them burn 5, this ends in ember 5, this poison heart 5, this wicked fate 5, the z word 3, leap 3.5, the witches of silverlake 4.5, the dark one 5, Gideon the ninth 5, the falconer 5, harrow the ninth 5, nona the ninth 5, ruin road 4.5, I shall never fall in love 4

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Graphic novel with a trans masc nonbinary main character! 🏳️‍⚧️ finally read this graphic novel (I tried reading it in December but the ebook just wasn’t working for me) and it was so good 🩷🩵 I’m always a sucker for historical books, but when queer characters are included?? COUNT ME IN

Book cover for I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This was already sad anyway, but I didn’t realize it was kids! Omg those poor babies :((((

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Romance books with trans MCs! 🏳️‍⚧️ left out the ‘title’ page because I have 8 slides of recs so I’ll make it 2 posts instead of 3! (1/2) #books #booksky #diversebooks #transbooks

pink and blue gradient background. In black text, title is “Adult” Books included: Sunset springs (trans man mc), the prospects (disabled trans man mc), blessed by the cupid distribution system (disabled trans woman mc), the companion (3 trans mcs, T4T4T), the longest night (trans masc MC, trans masc LI, T4T), deck the hulls (trans man MC)

pink and blue gradient background. In black text, title is “Adult” Books included: angels in the dark (nonbinary mc, trans man mc), so much more (nonbinary mc), rules for ghosting (trans man mc), the demon’s bargain (nonbinary mc), sing anyway (nonbinary mc), love & other disasters (nonbinary mc)

pink and blue gradient background. In black text, title is “Adult” Books included: a shot in the dark (trans man mc), second chances in new port stephen (trans man mc), chef’s choice (trans woman mc, trans man mc, T4T), single player (nonbinary mc), a nightclub for the holidays (nonbinary mc), returning to you (nonbinary mc)

pink and blue gradient background. In black text, title is “On my TBR” Books included: hide n’ seek (nonbinary mc), the spy and her serpent (trans woman mc, trans woman li, T4T), the support group (trans woman mc, trans woman li, T4T), black kitten (trans man and trans woman mcs), they were roommates (disabled trans masc mc), the dandelion & the thistle ((gray)ace demiboy mc, trans man mc)

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

HAHAHA yes. It’s SO good

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This novella features a trans man MC and a trans man love interest, and it was SO good. I read it this month and loved it! #trans #books #booksky #transbooks

Book cover of The Dark One by Taylor Hubbard

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Sci-fi books with trans main characters 🏳️‍⚧️ I have not read as many sci-fi books featuring trans MCs which is shocking! I love sci-fi as well, and thought I’ve read more but nope haha! #books #booksky #transbooks

blue gradient background from dark blue-black to navy blue. Title is in white block letters and says “Sci-Fi books with trans main characters”

blue gradient background from dark blue-black to navy blue. “Young Adult” is in white block letters. Books- Across a Field of Starlight (nonbinary mc), time and time again (disabled nonbinary mc), bad dream (trans girl mc), lunar boy (trans boy mc, middle grade), magodiz (two-spirit mcs, adult)

blue gradient background from dark blue-black to navy blue. “Adult” is in white block letters. Books- these fragile graces this fugitive heart (trans woman mc), seven mercies (trans woman mc), the deep (trans woman mc), light from uncommon stars (trans woman mc), finna (nonbinary mc), all systems red (nonbinary mc)

blue gradient background from dark blue-black to navy blue. “On my TBR” is i white block letters. Books- adrift in starlight (nonbinary mc), X (nonbinary mc), at the end of everything (nonbinary mc), the first sister (nonbinary mc), how we end (trans mc), in the city of time (trans femme mc)

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What are some peoples favourite sci-fi books with trans main characters? I’m in the middle of making a recommendation post for sci fi books but only have 35! And I’ve only read 10! My god! I need to read more sci fi

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Sara's Bookish Macarons (she/her) @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My application to be your favorite bookish baking account 🥰 #booksky #baking #macarons @skylight.social

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