Fairly Queer Books | Top Reads of 2025
Top Reads of 2025
I made a thing!
I decided late last year that 2026 would be the year of zines! Collecting them, sharing them, and of course, making them. So here's a book themed zine I made (and a page that I took extra time in making) for all of my reads in 2025.
This was really fun to make and I'd love to do this again for my Reads of 2026. There are some improvements I want to make the next time around:
- Add some more notes on reading habits & add some book format statistics (format I read the book/comic in)
- 5 top books and 5 top comics of the year with their own pages
- I actually liked listing the titles, but I want a better color system for 5 star reads, unforgettable reads, books I re-read, and new authors to me.
- The inside cover could be my reading goals of the year instead of how many books I had read up until that point.
- Maybe incorporate more mixed media and not add digital art elements at all (?) unsure yet, it was really fun to make those covers!
- add manga ! I read so much manga and never track it along with my books, that changes this year (I proclaim hopefully).
Have you ever made a book zine? Any notes on how you keep up with your reading journal/book keeping? I'd love to hear about it!
Have you ever made a book zine?
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no, but I want to try it out!
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June Book Club Pick
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.
In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of her life with her self-seeking French father. When her way of life and the delicate balance of power in the town are threatened, she is forced to flee her home and become a woman on the run along with a motley crew of refugees, including a mysterious young woman named Teresa.
Jacquotte and her band become indentured servants to the infamous Blackhand, a ruthless pirate captain who rules his ship with an iron fist. As they struggle to survive his brutality, Jacquotte finds herself unable to resist Teresa despite their differences. When Blackhand hatches a dangerous scheme to steal a Portuguese shipment of jewels, Jacquotte must rely on her wits, resourcefulness, and friends to survive. But she discovers there is a grander, darker scheme of treachery at play, and she ultimately must decide what price she is willing to pay to secure a better future for them all.
An unforgettable tale told in three parts, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye is a thrilling, buccaneering escapade filled with siege and battle, and is also a tender exploration of friendship, love, and the search for freedom and home.
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