405/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurts by Ben Reeves Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: the last page got me in my feels

404/600 💙📚 🎧📖: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi (2nd read) Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: Interesting found family

403/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Games: a Love Story by Anna Marie Volkova Genre: Literary romance Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I didn’t like so many things about this book, yet put together it somehow kinda works.

402/600 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Learning by Courtney Bush Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I wanted a little more thematically

401/600 💙📚 📖: Whistler by Ann Patchett Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: well-drawn characters

400/400 💙📚 🎧📖: Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: clearly, the reason I don’t own a house is because I’m not cutthroat enough

399/400 💙📚 📱📖: The Names of the New World by Kawai Strong Washburn Genre: Clifi Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: An exploration of the human toll of climate change and its potential mitigation, while recognizing the broken systems that encourage actions that perpetuate harm.

398/400 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Genre: YA Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: for fans of the Inheritance Games

397/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Like, Follow, Subscribe by Fortesa Latifi Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I liked exploring why family vloggers intrigue us

396/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: Read This When Things Fall Apart Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: for such a time as this

395/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: A Thousand Monstrous Forms by Saratoga Schaefer Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: A sapphic Bluebeard retelling and a haunted house story. This would have felt creepier if I had felt more invested in the Poppy-Celia relationship at the beginning.

394/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Tsubaki Stationery Store by Ito Ogawa Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: an exploration of language and its limits

393/400 💙📚 📖: Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: a messy mother daughter relationship

392/400 💙📚 📖: Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer Genre: Dystopian Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I too, would have focused on the lack of books if I were kidnapped to a cult where they weren’t allowed. It felt like we could have gone deeper with this premise.

391/400 💙📚⏳📚 🎧📖: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (3rd read) Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Still powerful

390/400 💙📚🩸📚 📱📖: Sleep Well Mommy by Mi-ae Seo Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: a psychological thriller that lives up to the creepiness in the title. Translated from Korean, we’re exploring what makes a serial killer, up close and personal.

389/400 💙📚 📖: The Simp by Roshan Sethi Genre: Satire Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: In the vein of Paul Beatty or Mateo Askaripour, pulls back the curtain on the absurdity of racial politics in Hollywood, with trendy DEI efforts being for show rather than actual change.

388/400 💙📚🪐📚 📱📖: Bird King Rising by Samantha Bansil Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: You know a book is going to be good when it starts with a map. I love that we’re back in Maynara (patterned on pre-colonial Philippines) with Laya as she begins her reign

387/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📱📖: Nanny Nanny by K Chiucarello Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: While plot light, Nanny Nanny more than makes up with it on reflection on caretaking, DV, and complex family relationships.

386/400 💙📚🪐📚 📱📖: A Complement of Scoundrels by SV Lockwood Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I love a strong, witty FMC! This adventurous fantasy featuring a cast of scoundrels is a lot of fun.

385/400 💙📚⏳📚 📱📖: Sweet Pea by Kit de Waal Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: This one got to me, bringing me to tears (always a compliment). This book avoided typical historical fiction pitfalls: feeling of the time, completely lived in. It was a slow start, but the end made it worth it.

384/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Nasty Work by Ericka Hart Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: this intersectional approach to the discussion of sex and gender is much needed

383/400 💙📚🪐📚 📱📖: Twig’s Traveling Tomes by Gryffin Murphy Genre: Cozy fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Books give me magical power too! This is a fun world with low stakes adventure and interesting characters.

382/400 💙📚🪐📚 📱📖: Resonant by Jeremy Jacobson Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: An epic fantasy adventure that encourages you to keep your brain on and really sit and get to know this world.

381/400 💙📚 🎧📖: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (2nd read) Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Obvi less thrilling than my first read, but that allowed me to notice different things

380/400 💙📚 📱📖: Another Name for Red by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I was so thankful that Amber was coming out with her debut novel after reading her entry in Never Whistle at Night and this exceeded my expectations with it’s heart and depth.

379/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📱📖: Uprising by Tahmima Anam Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: A difficult read for the first half, but that made it more powerful when the women assert their value against the patriarchal lies.

378/400 💙📚🪐📚 📱📖: Strange Lights by Mira Gonzalez Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: What a cast of quirky other-worldly characters! I appreciate how we do eventually get back story, all at once in it’s own section, and that both the current story and the past are engaging.

377/400 💙📚🩸📚 📱📖: What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schote-Bonne Genre: YA Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Adventurous, at time perilous, you will feel the danger our characters are in. What I found most interesting was the role capitalism played in driving marginalized folk to make risky choices to live

376/400 💙📚 📱📖: She’s a Doll by Barbara Truelove Genre: weird girl lit Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Oh, how I love Nic and Lu! This is a humorous, quirky, feminine rage book for us weird girls.