💀 Spooky month TBR 🎃 October means it’s time to lean into all things dark, chilling, and a little uncanny 👻📚 Some classics, some horror, some apocalyptic mayhem—basically the perfect mix for a haunted October. 👀🍂 Which one should I start with first? #booksky

Did you know about the IRL Halloween tree at Disneyland? On the 35th anniversary of Bradbury’s novel, an oak in Frontierland was given a makeover of orange lights and hand-painted jack-o’-lanterns. Bradbury said “I’m glad I’m going to be a permanent part of the spirit of Halloween at Disneyland.”

“The Halloween Tree” by a Halloween tree… Happy October! 🎃 Looking forward to my re-read of this book! Have you read it? #booksky #october #spookyseason

September in books 📚 Favorites: The Friend, Letters to a Young Poet, Things in Nature Merely Grow, Butcher’s Crossing, Now Is Not The Time to Panic. Lowlights/middling: Katabasis, The Goldfinch, Homesick for Another World, Life & Death & Giants. Which Sept. read(s) hit you hardest? 👀 #booksky

Latest haul from ThriftBooks 📚 Which one should I read first? #booksky #litfic #literaryfiction #literature #modernclassics #literaturesky

Current reads: 🦇 Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng 🚘 Eileen ⛪️ A Month in the Country 🌲 Vineland 🐈‍⬛ Katabasis 🌱 Things in Nature Merely Grow 🔮 Buckeye Are any of these on your TBR? If you’ve already read any of these what did you think of them? #booksky #books #reading

Remembering William Faulkner on his birthday (Sept 25) “I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.” ― William Faulkner, Light in August #booksky #onthisday

✨📚 Undiscovered Gem Alert! 📚✨ Why aren't more people talking about this book?!? "A Splintering" is one of the most compelling novels I’ve read this year Read my full review on Goodreads, link in bio #booksky #litfic #literaryfiction

Remembering F. Scott Fitzgerald on his Birthday (Sept 24) He said: "That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." #booksky #literaturesky #literature #onthisday

✨📚 Happy Hobbit Day! 🍂🐇 Which book would you take with you to read in the Shire? In 1978, the American Tolkien Society declared a fabulous holiday: Hobbit Day. September 22nd is Hobbit Day because it is the day of Frodo and Bilbo's mutual birthday 🎂 #booksky #lotr #tolkien

Happy Birthday to Stephen King! 🥳 A quote from my favorite of his novels: “When all else fails, give up and go to the library.” ― Stephen King, 11/22/63

End of '25 is looking STACKED!📚👀 Is it possible to finish Danielewski's 1232 PAGER by the end of the year?! Upcoming: The Mad Wife-9/30 Shadow Ticket-11/7 Bog Queen-10/14 Tom's Crossing-10/28 The Eleventh Hour-11/4 There Is No Antimemetics Division-11/11 Slow Gods-11/18 Snake-Eater-12/1 #booksky

Wishlist Wednesday 📚✨ Howl’s Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition is out! 👀 Have you seen the movie and read the book? I love the movie, but I've never read it, so this is going on my Christmas wishlist! #booksky #tbr #wtr #ghibli #studioghibli

It's #WishlistWednesday ! 😍📚 "This Is How You Lose The Time War" Deluxe edition releases 11/18/25 and I feel like that's going to be the perfect reason to give this one a re-read! 💙❤️ #booksky

TBR Tuesday Upcoming Book Releases 📚✨ 🧑‍🚀 Exiles---Sept 16 📖 The Wilderness---Sept 16 🌘 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny---Sept 23 Are you planning to read any of these? I'm most interested in Sonia & Sunny! #booksky #tbr #tbrtuesday #litfic #literaryfiction

“I can be by myself because I’m never lonely, I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.” -Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud A Solitude #sundaysentence #booksky #literature

Are you reading short story collections this month? 🍂📖🕯️ Short story September is a good opportunity to read more diversely and to mix up the normal novel reading routine. 📚 Drop your favorite short story collection in the comments, pls and ty!🙏😊 #booksky #tbr #nowreading #currentreads

🖤🔲🗝️💀♣️🦢🕷️🔳♟️🤍♠️🦴#wishlistwednesday #booksky

Library Card Sign-Up Month is here! 🎉📚 Aren't libraries THE BEST? It's so awesome to be able to try before you buy when it comes to books 🙌 You can save tons of money 😏 Already have a card? That doesn’t mean you can’t get one at another library 😜 #booksky

Just finished "The Goldfinch" 📖 and I’m glad I read it! But oh, do I have thoughts… 💭 771 pages of ambition, sprawling across decades, cities, and themes—but did it all come together? 🤔 Memorable, yes. Life-changing? For me, not quite. Have you read "The Goldfinch"? What did you think? 👀 #booksky

How was your August reading? 🌞📚 Did you find any new favorite books? I hope everyone had a wonderful month! This was my first #WomenInTranslationMonth and I loved it—it was such a fun, rewarding way to read. Already excited for the next one! 💫 #booksky #literaturesky

Remembering Mary Shelley on her birthday (Aug 30) “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein #booksky #literaturesky #literature #onthisday

BIG September Reading Plans! 📚👀 Have you planned your TBR for next month yet? What are looking forward to reading most? My TBR list for Sept is out of control, so we'll see how many of these I can get to 😬 In between novels I'm looking forward to reading lots of short story collections! #booksky

ROYGBIV 🌈 #booksky

Pretty psyched that I only have to wait a few weeks to read this! 🙌 Did y’all buy it? Going to get it at the library? Physical, ebook, or audiobook? #booksky

“A Confederacy of Dunces” is pure chaos—flip to any page and you’ll meet outrageous characters, biting satire, or a laugh-out-loud rant. But fair warning: it’s as offensive as it is entertaining, so check TWs before diving in! #booksky #literaturesky #literature #litfic

✨ Upcoming Sept Books ✨ 🌅 Buckeye — Sept 2 🌑 The Lack of Light — Sept 9 🌹🐇 We Love You, Bunny — Sept 23 Do you have plans to read any of these? I can’t wait for We Love You, Bunny! And Buckeye sounds like it will be fantastic. #booksky #tbr #tbrtuesday

I haven’t focused on collecting any specific editions from a publisher, but I realized I have a small collection of Penguin Black Spines. 🐧 Anyone have tips on editions from other publishers worth collecting? #booksky #literature #literaturesky

“I am not exactly a writer who has died, but a dead man who has taken to writing.” ⚰️ Spending Sunday with Machado de Assis, a 19th c. master of playful darkness and a rule-breaker who was ahead of his time. #booksky #literaturesky #literature #classics #sundayreads #weekendreads

Celebrating the birthday of Jorge Luis Borges (Aug 24), master of mirrors, mazes, and metaphysics. 📚 He said: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” What’s your favorite Borges story? #OnThisDay #booksky #literaturesky #books #reading #litfic

✨📚 Current Shelfie 📚✨ From revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo to quiet reflections in The Neon Bible to Pulitzer prestige with The Goldfinch… my shelf is feeling chaotically balanced right now 🤪 🌞 What are you reading this weekend? #NowReading #Shelfie #currentreads #weekendreads #booksky

ONE month until the first official day of Fall 🍂🍁Are you scoping out your fall reads yet? I am because despite sweating in the blazing heat I'm dreaming of pumpkin spice, apple cider, baking pies...let's just say fall can't come soon enough! Which fall reads should I add to my queue? 📚 #booksky

Remembering Ray Bradbury on his birthday (Aug 22). A master of imagination who made the future feel eerily close. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” #booksky #literaturesky #books #OnThisDay

Remembering Charles Bukowski on his birthday (Aug 16). Raw, gritty, & unapologetically human, his words still hit hard: “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.” "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." #booksky

A brief rec list of books with fewer than 1000 StoryGraph reviews that I loved, #WomenInTranslationMonth edition:

New craft book for #WritingWednesday! ✍️ (+ bonus hedgehog 🦔✨) “To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It’s worth it.” — Steering the Craft, Ursula K Le Guin #booksky #writesky #authorsky

TBR Tuesday 📚 Counting down to these releases: ✨ I Do Know Some Things — Richard Siken (Aug 26) 🌕 Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon — Mizuki Tsujimura (Aug 26) 🔥 Hot Wax — M.L. Rio (Sept 9) Which are you grabbing first? #tbr #tbrtuesday #booksky #litfic #poetry #books #reading #wtr

Just wrapped up Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star” (brief but it lingers), now enjoying “The Twilight Zone” by Nona Fernández (haunting & hypnotic), and gearing up for “Hurricane Season” by Fernanda Melchor. August = Women in Translation Month bliss ✨📚 #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth #LitFic #booksky

📚 These are the books I point to when people ask what kind of reader I am. Genre-bending, form-breaking, quietly haunting—Frankenstein, Stoner, Pale Fire, Treasure Island. I love flawed characters, big emotions, and a touch of the unexpected. #booksky #literaturesky #books

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote #sundaysentence #books #reading #classicbooks #booksky

Your official sign to unplug, slow down, and lose yourself in a story. 📚✨Happy National Book Lovers Day! What are you reading to celebrate? #NationalBookLoversDay #reading #BookLover #booksky

I TRIED but Daisy wouldn’t cooperate for a picture with the book SHE recommended to me. 🤪 but let me tell you, I am very happy I picked up “Flush”, because I am thoroughly enjoying the story! 🐶 #booksky #literaturesky #dogsky

New post alert! I've named the top 5 weirdest Animorphs covers ever created. #ReadingHasRuinedMyLife #bookblog #ChildrensLit #Animorphs #booksky www.readinghasruinedmylife.com/post/the-5-w...

Special shout out to @literarycolin.bsky.social for showing me the Message, a book cover that made me cry from the absurdity that it is.

Back to writing my debut novella! ✍️ (historical fiction) Experienced writers/authors: other than just quickly getting out my crappy zero draft-- any advice or encouragement you'd like to offer? #writesky #writingwednesday #writingcommunity #authorsky

#WishlistWednesday 📚✨ I just found out about this amazing Folio Society edition of "Piranesi" 🤩 Steep price but maybe someday I will save up for it! “In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows.” ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi #booksky #litfic

📚 TBR Tuesday: 3 September releases to keep an eye on— 🌕 Amity (9/2) 🪵 A Splintering (9/4) 🌊 Love, and Death, and Giants (9/9) Which one’s on your radar? #TBRTuesday #booksky #Bookish #tbr #wtr

I haven’t read the "most famous" book set in my state—I guess I need to fix that 😆 Whether or not this list from Business Insider is accurate, I'm wondering: What’s the standout book with a setting featuring your state—and would you recommend it? www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-... #booksky

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I’ve struck out on the first 2 Booker 2025 longlisters I tried—"Flashlight" and "Audition" didn’t work for me. 😵‍💫 Any recs on which one I should pick up next? I’m eyeing "Flesh", unless someone convinces me otherwise… Let me know which one wowed you! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... #booksky