it’s that time again! see below for a massive link round up (some of the books link to our bookshop affiliate page) Fiction we couldn’t put down (Jessie) The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Wildfire by Hannah Grace The Golden Frog Games by Claribel A Ortega Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood School Trip by Jerry Craft (kelly) Babel by RF Kuang Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman Beloved by Toni Morrison  Everything by Andrea Gibson Fav re-reads (J) The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (and ACOTAR)  (k) The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang New-to-us Authors (Jessie) Chloe Liese – The Wilmot Sister series Hannah Grace – Maple Hills series (kelly) Melissa Febos Katherine May so many substack peeps (in no particular order, and not necessarily new but needed to rec them somewhere) Marcela Onyango, Feel the News Anna Brones, Creative Fuel  Jami Attenberg, CRAFT TALK Ayesha Kahn, Cosmic Anarchy Jesse Meadows, Sluggish Bailey Richardson, Art Dogs Margaret Killjoy, Birds Before the Storm Margeaux Feldman, CARESCAPES Becca Lee, The Haunted Librarian Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost Nate Stevenson, I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand Laura K, Normal Island News Fanny Priest, Resourced Marlee Grace, Monday Monday Luca J. Davis, I love love, anything is possible Chris La Tray, An Irritable Métis Raechel Anne Jolie, Radical Love Letters Fav ships (J) The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches #TrueConfessions (k) gonna read Ursula K. Le Guin. I’m part way through a lot of things, as is my nature as a reader: for example, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler, The Milky Way by Moiya McTier, The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.  (J) really looking forward to Tempest of Tea, which we’re reading for the podcast in 2024. And Ali Hazelwood has a book coming out that’s dual POV called Not in Love, and I’m really interested to see her write a full book in dual POV. Nonfiction Books We Loved (kelly) Girlhood and Body Work: the Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos Wintering and Enchantment by Katherine May Motherhood by Sheila Heti I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Pageboy by Eliot Page In the autism subgenre #SpecialInterest…Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, Neuro Tribes by Steve Silberman, and Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker.  Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue by Les Feinberg, infamous transcestor.  Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Raj Patel and Rupa Marya is a staple on my nightstand bookstack, and I’m slowly working my way through it. Cannot recommend enough. Every chapter is a banger.  Anthology Make the Golf Club a Public Sex Forest – edited by Lyn Corelle and jimmy cooper. Exactly what it sounds like. Creative nonfiction, erotica, historical essays, all in the context of abolishing the depraved scourge on the landscape that is a golf course. I have a vendetta against golf courses, ppl.  All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainsford Stauffer  Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon. (Jessie) More Than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard Not Free, Not for All by Cheryl Knott about libraries in the Jim Crow era Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap  Revolution in Our Time by Kekla Magoon was a super powerful history of the Black Panther Party written for young adults Blackbirds in the Sky  by Brandy Colbert was a very insightful history of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Racism with Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva which focuses on racism in institutions. Our favorite shows (Jessie) GBBO and it was one of my favorite seasons, Professionals, the American Baking show, and the holiday eps Ramy season 3 That Damn Michael Che Abbot Elementary The Last of Us Never Have I Ever – fin...