Orange Wine by Esperanza Hope Snyder
4/5⭐️
Everyone’s unlikeable, but in a way that makes me want to gossip about them. I actually forgot I was reading a book for a sec.
Read if you like:
🍊Historical Fiction
🍊Everybody sucks
🍊Gossip/Family secrets
🍊Magical realism
📖🎧Bookshop/Hoopla
#booksky
I’m not even outdoorsy but something about a shaded tree and s sparkling water just does it for me!
Talking about books outside with snacks is the elite way to bookclub!!!
#booksky #bookclub #prideandprejudice
essential to the plot actually
Carnival Fantastico by Angela Montoya
5/5 ⭐️
Read if you like
🎡magical carnivals
💌 lovers to enemies to friends to lovers again
🤬 Well-executed miscommunication
🕊️Sweet young love with adorable nicknames
🎩 an ostrich as a significant side character
📚🎧 Netgalley/libby
#booksky #bookreviews #bookrec
Craving You by Kaila A. Stoval
3/5 ⭐️
Read if you like:
✨New Adult/College romance
✨Grief and Loss
✨MC in Therapy
✨Strangers to Rommates to head over heals in love
✨Spice every other chapter
This was a fun quick read.
#booksky #bookreviews
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
3.5/5 ⭐️
A short quick read, takes work to get to the fun part!
Read if you like
📖 Easy short books
🤔Confusion
🚬 Subtle dark academia vibes
⁉️ Mystery
🌊 Isolation/mental health
📚🎧 Libby/Spotify
#booksky #bookrecs
The View was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
5/5⭐️
One of my favorites of the year so far!
Read if you like
🎥 Hollywood romance
❤️🔥 Pining, Tension, Yearning, etc..
😫 Tears of frustration
💸 When rich people rich right
🥂 Reading pretty
📚🎧Thriftbooks/Libby
#booksky #bookrecs
Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue
4/5 ⭐️
I really appreciated this book for its descriptive storytelling. There is a lot of history that I was unfamiliar with.
✨Twisty Historical Fiction
✨Visceral storytelling
✨Colonization
✨Native American stories
📚🎧 netgalley/libro.fm
#booksky #bookrecs
I just looked that up and wow that’s a 25 hr audiobook! Fantasy readers are really built different 😂
yes yes it’s so good!! I just read all of the books and I’m firmly in the finlay fanclub!!
I got mine from Libro.FM, I need to be able to relisten to parts of it and it’s already a 10hr audiobook
March reading Wrap up
Posting it on time for the first time in a while, feels great!
March was crazy busy, but I managed to read every day thankfully! Reviews are in the works.
#booksky #readingwrapup #apriltbr
Spring 2026: Anticipated Releases
Today’s the first day that felt like Spring so I was inspired to share what I’m most excited to read this season!!
Second Chance Duet by Ana Holguin
4.5/5⭐️
First book by this author and already rearranging my schedule to catch up! Grateful for the arc
READ IF YOU LIKE
😉 Rivals to lovers
🔥Slowest burn
🙈 Socially awkward ppl
💗Yearning dialed up to 100
☀️ Latina rep
⏳Dual Timeline
📚🎧 Netgalley/Libro.FM
#booksky
This woman is disgusting.
ok ok so valid! the amounh if times I have to say the payoff isn’t worth it is insane!!
ok number 3 is such an alien concept to me fr. I usually just read thru in anger lol
too many books on earth!!
For the ppl who DNF consistently, show me your ways!!
I’m reading book reviews on storygraph rn and I keep seeeing people stopping around the 50% mark! Idk I feel like at that point you gotta commit to the bit
#boosky
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
5/5 ⭐️
Finally taking down my christmas tree, let’s talk about the last book I read in 2025!
Read if you like:
🎄Christmas books
❤️🩹narcissistic family
☀️undertandably grumpy x sweetest sunshine
🪟immediately accepted magic
☃️candy everywhere
📚Blackwell
🎧 Libro.FM
#booksky
The book is I love you so much it’s killing us both by Mariah Stovall. I sometimes feel like my body understands what she’s saying before my brain does somehow, I’m about 100 pgs in rn it’s so good
What is this and why am I crying??
#booksky
She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva
4/5⭐️
Read if you like
🖤Dark atmospheric vibe
🐦⬛Superstitions/Folklore
🤍Feminist stories
☠️Terrible men to hate in peace
A con artist concocts increasingly disturbing displays to blame on an imaginary threat. Def recommend.
📚netgalley
#booksky
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
4/5 ⭐️
Read if you like:
📖 people-centered historical fiction
⁉️full cast of characters
☠️murder mystery light
🏘️ a sense of community
😌slowing down
📚@politicsandprose
#booksky #bookreviews #bookrecs
✨January reading wrap up✨
A great month but lost my longest reading streak at the end, just devastating.
Already started with February. Currently reading: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Beach Read by Emily Henry
5/5 ⭐️
This is a top tier book for me. The most effortless reread even if I know I’ll cry.
Read if you like:
📑reading about writers
🌊 crying on the beach
☠️dead fathers
🤬 messy divorces
☀️ small town summer
#booksky #bookrecs #bookreviews #beachread #emilyhenry
there’s a lot of back and forth which was lightly frustrating at times, but the friendship to romantic relationship journey was well worth it to me. They’re opposites on the outside but so similar where it matters. Just lovely and so fun!
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
4.5/5⭐️
The whole friends-to-lovers thing is not usually up my alley, but somehow it works here in a way I can believe.
READ IF YOU LIKE
☀️A real summer feeling
🤬Frustating time shifts
😻 Millennial bs validated
🎬Watching a movie about it later
Thank you to our partner Tantor Audio, as well as our bookshop partners who continue to offer safe spaces and fight to make the world more positive and equitable. And thank you all for being part of our community and showing indies support.
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Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).
We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬
