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Below you will find 20ish book recommendations gathered from the Yuma community.\\ \\ \\ \\ - **The Song of Achilles:** A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of _Circe._\\ \\ - **Homosexual Intifada:** A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.\\ \\ - **Muñeca:** A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.\\ \\ - **Cleat Cute:** A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of _Ted Lasso_ and _A League of Their Own_, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.\\ \\ - **Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe:** The award-winning, internationally renowned book that is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” ( _Publishers Weekly_) and distills lyrical truths about family and friendship through the unlikely connection between two teens.\\ \\ - **Dogs of Summer:** _My Brilliant Friend_ meets _Blue is the Warmest Color_ in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ - **I'll Give You the Sun:** The radiant, award-winning story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Becky Albertalli, and Adam Silvera.\\ \\ - **What Move the Dead:** A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher.\\ \\ - **Cemetery Boys:** A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut.\\ \\ - **The Black Flamingo:** A fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed poet and performer Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Kacen Callender.\\ \\ - **The Spirit Bares Its Teeth:** Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.\\ \\ \\ **Open Throat:** A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel.\\ \\ \\ \\ - **Pumpkin:** Return to the beloved world of Julie Murphy’s #1 _New York Times_ bestselling _Dumplin’—_ now a popular Netflix feature film starring Jennifer Aniston _—_ in this fabulously joyful, final companion novel about drag, prom, and embracing your inner Queen.\\ \\ - **Herculine:** A “witty, often-chilling, compulsively readable” ( _Vogue_) horror debut following a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her fellow comrades—and she’s their next prey!\\ \\ - **Stag Dance:** In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.\\ \\ - **D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding:** D'Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding. Their whole relationship is fake.\\ \\ - **Wife Shaped Bodies:** _Sorrowland_ meets _Manhunt_ in this literary horror debut in which an isolated newlywed, covered in fungal fruiting bodies, strikes a precarious balance between following her husband's strict rules and pursuing an intense connection with a woman who makes her question everything.\\ \\ - **Astrid Parker Doesn't Fall:** An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of _Delilah Green Doesn’t Care_.\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ - **Cackle:** A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of _The Return_.\\ \\ - **Giovanni's Room:** James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel whose frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance was decades ahead of its time—named one of _The Atlantic_’s Great American Novels of the past 100 years.\\ \\ - **Strange Beasts:** In this fresh-yet-familiar gothic tale—part historical fantasy, part puzzle-box mystery—the worlds of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes collide in a thrilling exploration of feminine power.\\ \\ - **Looking for a Sign:** A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign in this rom-com from the Lambda Literary Award–nominated author of _Queerly Beloved_.\\ \\ - **Saturn Returning:** A smoldering, soul-splitting debut that tracks three friends through the celestial chaos of adulthood, love, and queer identity.\\ \\ - **Legends & Lattes:** The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's novel of high fantasy and low stakes.\\ \\ \\ \\ _Love what we do?_ **_Become a paid subscriber_**_for less than a cup of coffee a month. 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I’m also making lists of 2026 releases in fantasy, romance and horror so far so happy to share some of these early on with you guys (these will be recs of what I’m looking forward to rather than what I’ve read) so GO GO GO 🤎 As for my taste in books, I’m never going to be the type that picks only 5 top books for the year guys and I’ve learned to accept it because honestly, what do you mean my top 5 books in one year? I would have to host a meeting with myself for a whole month to decide that 😭 So instead, you guys get my taste in books throughout various sub-genres that I yap about all the time! Here is a list of the books (if you prefer to read through it or for accessibility needs)🤎: Cottagecore: 🍄 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries 🍄 After the Forest by Kell Woods 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Love and Poison by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton 🍄 The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 🍄 An Arrow to the Heart by K.R. Bacher Cozy Fantasy: 🍄 The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 Legend & Lattes by Travis 🍄 The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 🍄 The Nameless Restaurant by Tao Wong 🍄 Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao 🍄 The Spellshop by Sangu Mandanna Witchycore: 🍄 The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright 🍄 House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 🍄 The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder 🍄 The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna 🍄 Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi Retellings, Fairy Tale & Historical Fantasy: 🍄A Sorceress comes to Call by T.Kingfisher 🍄 What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez 🍄 Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 🍄 We Shall be Monsters by Tara Sim 🍄 The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G Slatter The rest is in my pinned comment! #fantasybooks #topbooksof2025 #favoritebooks * * * 74 books 1 [Cozy Quill\\ \\ Meg\\ \\ • Nov 7 2025](https://cozyquill.binderybooks.com/) Join for free \\ \\ Hi friends! We recently had our monthly _"Reading Recap"_ hang with our Cozy Quill paid members and, boy, did they come through with recs!\\ \\ I wanted to share all these book recommendations with you asap because they just kept coming and they kept getting better. Thank you to everyone who popped into the virtual recap this month and shared the stories you're loving! Your contributions were very generous and I'm excited to offer the list to everyone in our cozy crew.\\ \\ Scroll down and you'll see all 38 books our Cozy Quillers recommend this season! You can purchase them right from the Bindery site (I do earn a commission on that, I think? I haven't yet so I'm not sure ha!) or just add them to your TBR. Love you all! Until the next reading recap...\\ \\ x, Meg\\ \\ Join for free or login](https://cozyquill.binderybooks.com/item/9c4JMh80PlKFSM7uicW9/) [38 Reads We're All Obsessing Over 📚](https://cozyquill.binderybooks.com/item/9c4JMh80PlKFSM7uicW9/) * * * 38 books 16 [The Biblio(files)\\ \\ Brooke \\ \\ • Oct 28 2025](https://onthebrookeshelves.binderybooks.com/) Join for free \\ \\ Join for free or login](https://onthebrookeshelves.binderybooks.com/item/cmB0YmA74lDMTWNZUPuc/) [Favorite author highlights part 1](https://onthebrookeshelves.binderybooks.com/item/cmB0YmA74lDMTWNZUPuc/) Listen I was sucked in after chapter, that was all it took. Now she has her own shelf. * * * 11 books [Chanterelle Solace\\ \\ Sabie\\ \\ • Oct 8 2025](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [12 botanical horror books recs to become one with the moss this season👀](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/item/ZaB8iud3papQeXCzstlJ/) Do you read any botanical horror or spooky books for autumn? This is a range from pure botanical horror, to Mushroomcore, and horromance👀 Join my bindery through the 🔗 in my bio for more content like this🤎 Here are most of the botanical horror I’ve read in the past year or so! I am currently also reading Mexican Gothic and Girl in the Creek (both of which I’m enjoying): 🍄 Don’t Let the Forest in 🍄 Graveyard Shift 🍄 Predatory Natures 🍄 Human Scars on Planet Skin 🍄 What Moves the dead (and book 2) 🍄 Eat the ones you Love 🍄 Greenteeth 🍄 Midnight Rooms 🍄 They Bloom at Night 🍄 Swallowed 🍄 My Throat An Open Grave 🍄 Nettle and Bone Here are the two I am currently reading: 🍄 Mexican Gothic 🍄 Girl in The Creek Have you read any of them? #botanicalhorror #horrorbooks #books * * * 14 books 6 [Boundless Press\\ \\ Jananie\\ \\ • Sep 28 2025](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/) [the ultimate guide to fall book recs 🍂 30+ autumn books you need to read](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/0Nz7qa34y9GwgOYS9pXk/) let me know what books you'd recommend for the fall! * * * 34 books 15 [1](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/0Nz7qa34y9GwgOYS9pXk/#comments) [Chanterelle Solace\\ \\ Sabie\\ \\ • Sep 8 2025](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [66 Mushroomcore books, 147 Fantasy Books and 67 cozy games list, with more to come!](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/item/dULUpQ6j7Ertn4yhHtxG/) This one is for the mushroom book lovers, those who want to read about mushrooms, spores or fungi in all genres and therefore, this one is for my cottagecore readers and those of us who find solace in cottagecore elements and want to frolick in the forest but have to settle down for a book that makes you feel that way AND if you want to know what I think about the few I have read in here (5 so far) then let me know, I’ll send you my blog post 🤭🤎 Thank you to @spoonie.reads for their inspiration with their Sporror list, which I hope you go and check out asap!🤎 I’m finally back with my lists and I’ve missed making them so much! They usually take a couple of hours of research and then more time to put the list together, go through everything and make sure I didn’t forget anything! My regular monthly books and gaming list are coming soon and an update on 2025 yearly lists is on the way too. But for now? This is the way I make my comeback and it is only appropriate for it to be mushroom related! 🍄‍🟫🤎 Here is a list of books with the authors tagged if found AND if the books are in the wrong category, just let me know and I will try to add it in a pinned comment! I am only one human and will make errors: 🍄‍🟫 Mushroom horror: What moves the dead by @redwombatstudio The marigold by @afsulli Ghost Eaters by @claymcleod The luminous dead by @authorcstarling Cold storage by @dgkoepp The Woodwitch by Stephen Gregory The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach The voice in the night by William Hope Hodgson Graveyard Shift by @sureasmel The Ghost woods by @cjcooke\_author Yellow Jessamine by @authorcstarling A Botanical Daughter by @medlock\_noah House of Rot by @dangerslater Girl in the creek by @wendy.n.wagner Root rot by @cronebro You will speak for the dead @r.a.busby (The rest is in the comment)🤎🤎 #sporror #sporebook #mushroombooks #cottagecorereader #fungibooks * * * 5 books 1 [Chanterelle Solace\\ \\ Sabie\\ \\ • Jul 20 2025](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [Poll:\\ \\ Have you read any of these 5 focused Mushroom Books? \\ \\ ****_This one is for my Cottagecore Readers, who enjoy mushrooms in everything: The Era of Mushrooms_**** \\ \\ I made a list of all 66 books on my instagram and if you want to go and look at it, you can do so here. This blog post is a summary of the 5 books that I have read (or reading in the case of one) on my list and what I thought about them! Go and vote in the poll if you have read any of the books mentioned here and here is the list of them all: \\ \\ - What Moves the Dead \\ \\ - Grave Yard Shift\\ \\ - Don't Let the Forest In\\ \\ - Swallowed\\ \\ - Human Scars on Planet Skin (CR)\\ \\ \\ ****_So, what did I think of the book...:_**** ****What moves the dead**** \\ \\ If you have been around here for long, you will know that I LOVE anything T.kingfisher has written and I am making my way through the list of books. I have no complaint about any of them and in fact, I'd love more AND I am so glad we have so many coming out. \\ \\ What Moves the Dead is no exception in this list. This is a book about Alex Easton, who goes to the countryside of Ruravia and sees that his childhood friends are dying due to a fungal growth and possessed wildlife. \\ \\ This is a short book and there is book 2, with book 3 coming out this September. It is an understatement of the year to say that I loved it. This book explores dark topics, has a British mycologist \\ \\ This is a combination of gothic horror, fantasy, fungal centered and a retelling (meant to be a retelling of The fall of the house of Usher, also on the list)! \\ \\ ****Graveyard shift**** \\ \\ Graveyard is also a novella and this is a Dark Academia Gothic, Horror book that focuses on 5 different people who cross path as they work a night shift. These five people find an open grave, where none should be found. \\ \\ The story delves into the mystery of this grave and they encounter the gravedigger in question. One of the characters is a journalist and we go on a whole ride of seeing this story.\\ \\ We also encounter other elements in the story: insomnia and sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety, not having a home...etc. \\ \\ M.L. Rio leaves us wanting more (or at least leaves me wanting more...) and I have started reading If We Were Villians as I couldnt get enough. \\ \\ This one is perfect for you if you like those gothic vibes, tensions and rats with fungi. \\ \\ ****Don't let the forest in**** \\ \\ Don't Let the Forest in is, well, how do I say this: Making it into the top of my list of books I read this year. This is more of a botanical horror, hence why its on the Mushroom-ish category, but I couldnt not include it. \\ \\ I can't say much without spoiling the book and I wouldnt dare do that to you, my dear cottagecore reader BUT what I can say is this is a fast paced horror, where you are questioning everything that has happened. DID IT HAPPEN?! Who knows? \\ \\ I cannot say enough about this book and I have added CG Drews into my auto buy authors as they are the master of Cottagegore. This book follows Andrew, Thomas and Dove with the monsters from their stories and sketches....\\ \\ Read this AND then come and talk to me ASAP (I mean it!)\\ \\ ****Swallowed**** \\ \\ Swallowed was my second book into Horromance and this is one of the Mushroom-ish books too but guys, this book, and I cannot place an emphasis enough on this, is AMAZING. \\ \\ This is a horromance novella that goes along the journey of Jill Jones, who is a botanist, going on a journey to a Planet with her crew members. The synopsis starts with: " _Earth is beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope."_\\ \\ This is a genre blend, which has sci-fi, romance, horror, paranormal and has the vibe of being in a mushroom fever dream, which happened when you accidentally ate that spore mushroom from a forest while you were frolicking there. \\ \\ Now, if you read this, I expect nothing less then you popping in and coming to talk to me about it. Do it! \\ \\ ****Human Scars on Planet Skin**** \\ \\ And last, but not least, is Human Scars on Planet skin! This is an experimental cozy sci-fi novella that is focusing on the eco-horror of what is happening to Turr, the planet in the book. \\ \\ I am currently making my way through this book but guys, honestly, I know I'm going to love it and you guys are in for it when it releases in September! 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