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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I saw a woman on the train pull out Martyr by Kaveh Akbar, and I could not stop myself from telling her I loved that book. I think my heart skipped a beat 💀 #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I definitely could make a favorite books of 2025 list…but that would be quitting! 12 days is so much time to find a new fave #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

haven't posted here in so long, but I came to say: if you haven't read Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, stop what you're doing a read it right now. #booksky #bookrecommendation

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Some of my Memorial Day weekend reads. What was your favorite read this long weekend? #booksky

Hand holding 3 books in front of a bookshelf:

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Consider this my formal apology with tears for my post yesterday. I thought this one was getting here on May 20th and I was salty 💀 #booksky #blackbooksky

Hand holding a copy of the book Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

So when I preorder a book, it should be at my door the day it comes out??

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Picked up Mosab Abu Toha’s new release, Forest of Noise, and each page has been a beautifully written gut punch. Such a powerful poetry collection #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Listening to a romance audiobook, and I’ve decided that fake dating is my favorite trope. Will not be taking questions at this time thx 🫶🏾 #booksky #romancebooksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thank you #Sinners for sending me on a vampire/black gothic horror book hunt. Just upped my tbr by so much lol #booksky

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So, I hear ya’ll like #Sinners. might I also humbly suggest…

Book cover to the novella Ring Shout featuring two black hands outstretched with a triangular klansman hood in the background with two open mouths with teeth for eyes.

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Here are some books I’ve read so far this month and who I’d recommend them to (🧵) #booksky #blackbooksky #bookrecommendations

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My two hyperfixations this week will be the nba playoffs and the movie Sinners when I see it… Anyone have standalone book recs about basketball or vampires? 😅 #booksky #blackbooksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m feeling a reading slump coming on, and I have 7 books checked out from the library 😭 #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Happy Monday #booksky! What's on everyone's TBR for the week? Here are some books I'll be shuffling through: 📚Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse 📚Audre Lorde Essay Collection 📚When the Music Hits - Amber Oliver (ARC) 📚Malinalli - Veronica Chapa 🎧Dearborn - Ghassan Zeineddine

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel was so so so good! 🥰 Ella and Miles are a couple I won't stop thinking about, and Ariel is now one of my auto-buy authors. Highly recommend if you're on the hunt for your next romance read. #blackbooksky #romancebooks

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

me 🤝 library book sales got a great haul for only $8! #booksky #librarysky #bookhaul

Stack of books on a black table. Order below from top to bottom:

The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Black American Short Stories edited by John Henrik Clarke
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Vegetarian by Hang Kang
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
James by Percival Everett

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Trying to fix my skylight algorithm to focus on books, but I’m not sure how. Any tips? #booksky

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Republicans in Georgia want to have me arrested HB483, which used to be a bipartisan bill about Assault and Battery now has the "jail the librarian" language in it If I loan a book w/ a romance w/ 2 boys in it, a parent could have me arrested. #georgia #booksky www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1...

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GA - HB483

Crimes and offenses; protections for inspectors of code enforcement; provide

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Finished Legendborn! Can I send Tracy Deonn an early invoice for the emotional damage she’s gonna put me through in the rest of this series? Just wanna be prepared #booksky #blackbooksky #legendborn

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Did I finish The Death of Vivek Oji…or did it finish me? #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Legendborn is so good!! I just got to part 3 of book and I’m kicking myself for not starting sooner #booksky #blackbooksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This novella has stuck with me since finishing. It tackles grief and overcoming the loss of community from the lens of a trans woman in a tender way. Good read for people that like character-driven & emotional stories. Check content warnings since it deals with difficult subjects #booksky

Book cover for Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

A baby blue cover with a picture of a goose with two heads flying and feathers falling from its tail. Small red text lines the right side of the cover stating the title and author’s name.

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

Slide 1: Pink, white, and blue text over a background image of a trans flag. Text Reads: The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: A decentralized grassroots event that focuses on UPLIFTING trans books, AMPLIFYING trans stories, and SUPPORTING trans organizations and communities. March 21-31, 2025.

Slide 2: Text Reads: The #TRR Isn’t Just Reading, It’s Action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Image includes a blue box with the word UPLIFT, a white box with the word AMPLIFY, and a pink box with the word SUPPORT with a dollar sign in place of the S.

Slide 4: Text Reads: Get Loud, Stay Loud. Trans people, trans voices, trans stories have always been here, and will always remain.
If this is your first or third readathon, you’re an author or a reader, an accomplice, young or old—let’s always remain loud for Trans Rights!

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Three days into the #trr25! Here’s what I’ll be reading next week: 📖 A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers 📖 Small Beauty - Jia Qing Wilson-Yang 📖 The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi 📖 Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse What books are on your TBR? #booksky

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SandyKeeks📖🧠 @sandykeeks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

There is nothing like the rush that words on a page can bring… #booksky #blackbooksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Finished Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor and loved it! As someone that doesn't read a lot of sci-fi, it was a great introduction for me as it felt like a mix of literary fiction with futuristic elements. Made me laugh, cry and reflect on life. Can't wait to read more from this author #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I just realized that I hug books that I really like after I’m done reading them??? Didn’t really have anyone to share this with so here you go… #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hold for Death of the Author came in ☺️ #booksky #blackbooksky

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Helen | 혜련 | readwithneleh @readwithneleh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Forgot to post this yesterday. Here are the new books that came out yesterday written by Korean authors. #booksky

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Mia McKenzie @miamckenzie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Official cover reveal for my new novel, THESE HEATHENS, about a pious, small-town teenager who travels to Atlanta to get an abortion in 1960 and finds herself smack in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement and the secret lives of queer Black people. You can pre-order your copy now! 1/

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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hey my Literary Lovelies! It’s Women’s History Month, so I feel like it’s time for a new book thread. Here’s what’s on my TBR for March. Horror & Sci Fi written by Black, Indigenous and other Women of color. Let’s get started shall we? 💙📚 #BlackBooksky #DiverseBookSky

Meme of Michaela Coel parodying star trek. Wearing a space suit and sitting at a control panel smirking at the camera

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rocio📚 @rocioreads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I’m sorry…do people think that Shakespeare wasn’t a real person???

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m in the middle of 4 books… I don’t need to drop everything and start the Legendborn series… I haven’t read a fantasy book in 6 months… I don’t need to drop everything and start the Legendborn series… #booksky #blackbooksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I’ve been loving my library’s newsletters lately! So many interesting books/new releases being shared that I don’t normally see #librarysky #booksky What websites/platforms do you normally use to find new books?

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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hiiiiiii 🥰, it's the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, so here is every list I made to boost #Blackbooksky creators in February! Please continue to celebrate Black voices year round 🖤🤎 #blacksky #booksky #bluesky go.bsky.app/UF7S8ef

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Black History Month may be ending today, but that shouldn’t stop you from reading books by black authors year round 👀 Here are 31 books written by Black women that you can pick up in March 🧵 #blackbooksky #booksky

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Trans Rights Readathon Reading Challenge, 2025 Edition! We have 5 core prompts to complete, and many “bonus” prompts that can be used to either find more specific books for the core prompts or as a bonus challenge to read all 30 prompts throughout the year, or some other personal goal in-between!

Cover Slide: Announcing the 2025 Trans Rights Readathon StoryGraph Challenge, with 5 main prompts and 25 bonus prompts.

Slide 2 describes the 5 main prompts: 1. Transmasc/Trans Man rep, 2. Transfemme/Trans Woman Rep, 3. Nonbinary, Agender, Genderqueer, and Other Gender Expansive Rep, 4. Intersectional Trans+ Rep Outside Your Own Experience, and 5. 2Spirit, Indigiqueer, Third Gender, and Indigenous Gender Expansive Rep.

Slide 3: 1/2 of the 25 Bonus Prompts list. - African Author of the Black Diaspora. - Indigenous Author. - Southwest Asian author or of the Diaspora. - Asian Author or of the Diaspora. -Latine/Latinx Author or of the Diaspora. - Hawaiian of Pacific Islander Author, of the Diaspora. - Biracial or Multiracial Author. - A book by a Disabled Author and/or Starring a Disabled Character. - A Book By an Author from a Country Other Than Your Own.

Slide 4: Bonus Prompts Part 2/2. - T4T. - Trans Joy. - Neopronoun Rep. - History. - Memoir/Biography. General Nonfiction. - Poetry. - Picture Book/Middle Grade. - Young Adult. - General/Literary Fiction. - Graphic novels, Comics, and Manga. - Fantasy or Sci-fi. - Horror/Thriller. - Romance. - A 2025 Release.

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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Since this is the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth & March is #WomensHistoryMonth here is a HUGE list of AMAZING Black Women on #booksky 🖤🤎 *Fem-presenting enbies are welcome too but I wanted to wait for consent to add them #blacksky #blackwomen #blackbooksky go.bsky.app/6monFG4

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/02/2025

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Being a mood reader and wanting to join a book club don’t go together… #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Would not recommend getting laid off from your job while trying to get over seasonal depression and watching a constitutional crisis… Send happy/distracting book recs plz 🫶🏾 #booksky

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

rain on window + a book >>>>>

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syd📚 @sydbereading.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Razorblade Tears is eatingggg!! So upset I didn’t start this sooner #blackbooksky #booksky

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