Tag: adult book recs

• Can I Trust Bookstagram Recs Now?

  After experiencing the highs, lows, hypes and underwhelm that Bookstagram has to offer, I started asking myself this question: can I trust Bookstagram recs now? I have caught myself a few times this year before I jumped on a bandwagon that I knew in my hearts of hearts wasn’t going to be for me. I…

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  November 29, 2025

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• Stunning Short Stories in Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields

  What’s better than a Claire Keegan story? Multiple Claire Keegan stories! Walk the Blue Fields was a library book request I made following Foster, a story I absolutely adored, and I am so happy to have more works of hers in hand. Both gut-wrenching and grand, these stories will transport you and throw you into…

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  November 28, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Fredrik Backman’s And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a Good Pain

  Though small, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a mighty read. It is gentle and caring, yet packs a tremendous punch, and you can feel every drop of humility, love, and patience in this incredibly heartfelt read. This book rec only came across my radar maybe a week or two…

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  November 26, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Adrienne Young’s A Sea of Unspoken Things – As Good As Her Others?

  I fell in love with Spells for Forgetting, spent my nights kicking my feet over The Unmaking of June Farrow, but it seems that A Sea of Unspoken Things has left me wanting more. This adult contemporary fantasy, set in the beautiful Six Rivers, Northern California, it was hoping for more goodness from an author…

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  November 24, 2025

  adult fantasy, Contemporary Fiction

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• The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison Will Have Your Skin Crawling

  The Butterfly Garden and The Roses of May were great, but there is something about Dot Hutchison’s third instalment in The Collector series, The Summer Children, that had me stuck right in there. With the quick pacing, dark storyline, compelling plot, fantastic characters, and jarring detail, it will be impossible to put down. Content Warning:…

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  November 17, 2025

  Crime Fiction

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• Claire Keegan’s Foster – Sad, Heartfelt, and Deeply Moving

  I cannot get enough of Claire Keegan’s short yet shocking reads. The efficiency of her narrative style and word choice makes her novels concise and poignant, leaving no room for misinterpretation or guesswork. Foster is yet another one of her books that strikes at the heart of the reader with its simple yet emotionally complex…

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  November 12, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction

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• The Unmaking of June Farrow – Yet Another Fabulous Adrienne Young Novel

  There is something addictive about Adrienne Young’s adult fantasy novels that scratches that itch deep in my soul. Spells for Forgetting is a stunning masterpiece, and The Unmaking of June Farrow carries a similar weight, depth, and poignancy. While it is classified as an adult fantasy, the emotions and characters feel real, grounded, and compelling.…

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  November 10, 2025

  adult fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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• Alicia Thompson’s The Art of Catching Feelings Delivers Heartfelt Sports Romance Goodness

  The Art of Catching Feelings, a standalone sports romance by Alicia Thompson, is just the right balance of baseball, contemporary romance, working through personal trauma, and steamy romance. Romance isn’t set in a vacuum, and this novel encapsulates that idea exactly right with conflicts and interactions that are just as important in the story as…

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  November 5, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• A Touching Exploration of Identity in Jeffrey Buchanan’s The Birds Began to Sing

  Jeffrey Buchanan’s Gifkins Award-winning novel, The Birds Began to Sing, is precious, tender, and sombre. Exploring many queer themes like homosexuality, transexuality, internalised homophobia, identity, and living in a world where homosexuality is a crime, this novel is full of many heartfelt moments, revelations, and complexities that make it not only a standout novel, but…

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  November 3, 2025

  Historical Fiction

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• My October 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall Mood: content – I have spent a lot of months recently reading a lot of books, so I wasn’t expecting to get all that many read this month. In fact, I was half expecting to have to ditch my Spooktober plan halfway through and make up a lot of discussion posts to stretch out…

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  October 31, 2025

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