Book Recommendations: Queer YA Historical Fiction for Queer History Month One of the oldest lies told about queer and trans people is that we are new. That identity is a trend, that visibility is invention, that history doesn’t include us. Long before the curriculum caught up, long before the history […]
Comic Crush Saturday: Something is Killing the Children: Hope is a Knife by James Tynion IV and Kiersten White There are certain titles that stop you cold, and Something Is Killing the Children is one of them. James Tynion IV’s comic series pulled me in on that alone, plus the […]
Crush on This: Dead Poets, Victorian Heroines, and One Very Clever Detective: A Spooky Season Classic Adaptations Roundup October is the perfect time to revisit the stories that have haunted literature for centuries. and the YA authors who have taken those stories apart and rebuilt them into something new. The […]
Book Recommendations: I am Jane Doe I know there is stigma, there is shame, there is fear, but it is also so important to know that I AM JANE DOE. As long as there have been men in power, woman have been at risk. At times like this when the […]
Audiobook Review: Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman Clay McLeod Chapman is one of those authors where I will pick up whatever he writes without reading the description first. So when Devil Inside showed up with the word horrormance attached to it and the promise that Clay was attempting to […]
Young Adult New Releases October 20th 2026 Happy New Book Tuesday! We love wishing all the new books a happy #BookBirthday but especially today’s YA releases, most are highlighted below! If you are thinking about adding some to your personal library, please check out our independent affiliates: Libro.fm for all your audiobooks […]
Blog Tour: Accelerant by T.L. Simpson Briar Stokes watches his best friends get attacked at a Pride demonstration, and he does what feels logical in that moment: he grabs a pipe, puts on a demon mask, and goes looking for the white supremacists who did it. The impulse seems to make […]
Audiobook Review: A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young landed on my radar the best way a book can: Maria Ingrande Mora told me to join the street team. I trust Maria’s recs so I did not ask questions. This is […]
Comic Crush Saturday: Fence by C.S. Pacat, with art by Johanna the Mad Fence has been in the world since 2017. It has sold over a million copies. It has built one of the most devoted fandoms in comics. And now, nearly a decade after Nicholas Cox first showed up […]
Crush on This: The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas Set during a revolution in a fictional version of Mexico, The House of Gardenias follows sixteen-year-old Minerva Treviño as she tries to survive both human and supernatural horrors. Author Isabel Cañas pulled from her own experiences living in countries during periods […]