Be the change you want to see, so here it is: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics is a sapphic historical where a widow sponsors a young lady astronomer’s translation project. Over science and embroidery and a bisexual awakening, they fall in love! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

2025 book recs, including a reappearance from @kerstinhall.bsky.social (am I making it awkward, Kerstin?) and also @sarahmaclean.bsky.social @ceejthemoment.bsky.social @christinalauren.bsky.social @amytintera.bsky.social and several other people who are not on bluesky shorturl.at/VUm3b

So stoked for @deathbybadger.bsky.social ‘s next book from @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social !

✨We're about to announce our 2026 titles✨ If you want to be the first to hear about the new titles and a bundle offer, sign up for our email list at the below link! honfordstar.com/pages/e-mail...

Airplane reading on my last trip included some excellent horror translated into English. Bobyleva's The Village at the Edge of Noon about a community whisked away to a surreal forest of malevolent creatures and Suhyeon's Alien Gods that melds Korean mudang practices with eldritch horror. #booksky

I’ve been sending stories to @fantasymagazine.bsky.social for years and today is the day I finally have a story out with them! Wicked proud of this little post apocalyptic haunted highway tale :) psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Ep. 62 of the #SLLNPodcast is out! Check out “Broken Books Build Communities” from Rain Smith @simplyrain.bsky.social! Get it on your favorite podcatcher (now on Apple Podcasts!), or here: sllnpodcast.libsyn.com/062-broken-b... #TLSky #SchoolLibrary #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat

The audiobook has arrived! a.co/d/cJVzQzE

The Kirkwood Public Library did a fantastic podcast episode with Jinwoo Park about his novel, The Oxford Soju Club! kplpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1278428/epis...

Drum roll please... the books have been tallied and with over 500 total votes and more than 350 unique titles mentioned, the favorite books of #LibFaves25 are:

And here is the incredible spreadsheet full of awesome book recommendations to make your TBR explode! Happy reading, everyone! #LibFaves25 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The tallying is over, but the fun doesn't have to stop! Keep using the hashtag today to mention your honorable mention titles-- those books you loved that didn't quite make your top 10. #LibFaves25

Last day of #LibFaves25 is THE QUEER THING ABOUT SIN. A real sweet spot for both experts and casual readers. It fundamentally altered my views of the origins of homophobia and would have deeply helped and comforted me as a young, queer religious guy trying to sort out the whole snarl.

"'You must meet the most interesting people on the gallows,' Whitlaw Goddard said to the black-hooded man readying his noose. Fancy joining Whitlaw and the rest of the team? Just in: ARCs of @cameronjohnston.bsky.social's new novel, First Mage on the Moon. Publishes 14th April 2026

Meet Becky Spratford, a librarian, readers' advisory specialist, and ALA Editions author who has "spent her career tirelessly nudging horror literature into the American mainstream." The Chicago Tribune has named her Chicagoan of the Year in Books. Congrats Becky! https://bit.ly/494ILq2

My final #LibFaves25 is CITY OF ALL SEASONS by Oliver K Langmead and Aliya Whiteley, in which the world is split into realms of summer and winter -- neither knowing the other exists. Cousins work to uncover the mystery of it all and reunite the sundered city and its communities.

Kudos to my wonderful tally-taking volunteers of #LibFaves25! @madpoptart.bsky.social @mrlzbth.bsky.social @fineplan.bsky.social @jesstlibrarian.bsky.social @jwbookworm.bsky.social @hartgami.bsky.social @pjgard.bsky.social @danthebookman.bsky.social We've noted over 300 unique titles!

Corey's novelette captures exactly what I love about Weird worldbuilding. It offers peripheral glimpses of the strangeness of this world and its mysteries without ever Explaining Too Much (something I consider a capital offense). I love this story!

2025 Anton Hur Gift Guide or Everything I Published in 2025

Gift Link: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/c...

My Day 9 #LibFaves25 COSMIC LOVE AT THE MULTIVERSE HAIR SALON by Annie Mare made me believe happy endings might exist out there. A missent text from the past connects potential lovers Tressa and Meryl. But in Tressa's time, Meryl vanished a month ago. Can they change the past and create a future?

It was a rough year, and comfort reads such as Kim Jyun's YEONNAM-DONG'S SMILEY LAUNDROMAT kept me reading (and hoping) so it is my number 9 pick. #LibFaves25

Still three days left to vote for your favorites! #LibFaves25

Day 8 #LibFaves25 I'm changing my list, adding SLOW GODS by Claire North. It's utterly engrossing sci-fi, akin to Tchaikovsky and Martine in the way the detailed universe and culture building just flows as it's used to explore human experience. With a protagonist replaced by darkness beyond space.

Dear Librarians, we hope that seeing the January 2026 LibraryReads picks gives you a boost at the start of your week! Here are the Top 10 titles that public library staff across the USA voted for as favorites. Print-friendly flyer at libraryreads.org. Which titles are you adding to your TBR?

Handing the #LibFaves25 baton to @pjgard.bsky.social. 51 votes today, 31 for new titles. THE CORRESPONDENT is still in the lead but there are three days yet to vote. Tune in tomorrow!

Day 7 of my #LibFaves25 is EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE by Sarah Maria Griffin. It's easy to compare this with Little Shop of Horrors, but extra unsettling because the evil plant is not only stalking the neighborhood around the dying mall, but needs to forge a romance to steal the heart of his prey.

My #LibFaves25 Day 6 is WHEN WE WERE REAL by Daryl Gregory, in which the world's creators reveal it is all a simulation and one response is for a rabbi, a nun, an influencer, and a cancer survivor to go a sight seeing tour of the evidence. (other responses: cults, murder, main character syndrome)

#LibFaves25, Day 6 THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL by Philip Fracassi is a terrific sci-fi novel. Rather than look at the physics of time travel, it studies the emotional toll of revisiting your own past and the growing suspicion that you might not be just observing that past in spite of the rules.

My Day 5 #LibFaves25 is SALTCROP by Yume Kitasei, which follows two sisters traveling the world in a boat, searching for the missing eldest during an environmental apocalypse largely born of corporate greed. It is no surprise this is showing up on so many best lists! #booksky

Do you need a silly library video for your morning??? (That doubles as a book recommendation post for YA/JUV fiction???)

Quite a few people have asked me where would be the best place to get my debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, and I appreciate this question a lot because it shows people’s desire for ethical and meaningful consumption. So I'll answer that by giving a prioritized list of places that I get my books from.

Library Journal has announced their picks for the Best Books of 2025, and Macmillan has 13 titles on the list! 📚👉 tinyurl.com/2vp6ysrh

And I'm up. Alright #LibFaves25 I'm seeing an early jump by Everything is Tuberculosis into the three vote category. What else did you love? You can still jump in! Count down your 10 favorite books published in 2025, through 12/17. TITLE in caps, tag #LibFaves25!

That's a wrap for my day monitoring #LibFaves25 -- passing it along to @jesstlibrarian.bsky.social 😁 What a fun day: we're up to 172 unique titles and Wild Shore, Victorian Psycho, The Correspondent, and Automatic Noodle are in the lead at the moment, but that can change in an instant!

BELLY FULL OF HEART by Madeline Mouse! 🌟 Turning 1 today, this Ignatz nominated comic is an ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future. 💓

Very sad to hear the news about John Varley. I didn't get to work with him much, but here's an amazing email he once sent us at Lightspeed about why he didn't like to read or discuss his own work. I've saved this for a long time because I enjoyed it so much.

When the Earth was Green was one of my favorite reads this year and I still think about it. Definitely a must gift for any of your non fiction prehistory lovers (or just people who love interesting science writing) in your life.

News is coming to me via friends on Facebook, and via Fancyclopedia, that John Varley, who wrote Millennium, Steel Beach, and the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has died. He was an excellent writer in the Campbell/Heinlein tradition, and I dug him a lot in my teens and early 20s. RIP.

Too many to name so I might thread this over the course of today but can I just say I love @emilyscartoons.bsky.social so much and got the nuns in a physical copy (vol 1)

hashtag endorsement! Here are the book covers i illustrated for Premee's wonderful AWARD WINNING books, which you should buy everyone you know for xmas & read immediately. AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT THE RIDER, THE RIDE, THE RICH MAN'S WIFE (also i did endpapers for this v. exciting!)

I haven't reminded you of this for awhile. It's not too late to nominate me....I mean, someone! It's not too late to nominate someone for the award! 🤣😂 Nominations close December 15th. So it's *almost* too late, but NOT QUITE YET! ilovelibraries.org/love-my-libr...

Day 4 of my #LibFaves25 is WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY by Wen-yi Lee. The gangs of historic Singapore are granted powers by their chosen deities. Adeline's drawn to them by a beautiful girl with a butterfly tattoo and the fiery death of her mother. #booksky

Day 4 title for #LibFaves25 is WRECK YOUR HEART by Lori Rader-Day. A big-hearted, funny, found-family mystery that delighted me from start to finish.

#LibFaves25 Day4! WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix Southern Gothic Horror--totes something I adore. Witchcraft. Body horror. Incredible female characters. Tackling misogyny & bodily autonomy. Well-crafted by a master--there is nothing here not to love!

I'm keeping track of #LibFaves25 posts today, so get your favorites in. Library friends, if you're just learning about this or haven't had time to start yet, feel free to catch up today. We're not particular -- we just want to see what you loved! 😁

#Libfaves25 Day 3 afternoon update! We're now up to 135 votes with 120 unique titles mentioned so far. Keep the posts coming! And if you missed the first two days, please feel free to jump in today and catch up! We don't want to miss any great 2025 reads.

Awwww y’all, i just wanna shout out @premeemohamed.com for being the goodest of eggs. She came to my class today via Zoom and talked about writing and process and feelings and spreadsheets and told an impossible story of writing heroism that rivals Beowulf’s 9-day swim. Thanks Premee!

Day 3 of #LibFaves25 is Tom Ryan's WE HAD A HUNCH is twisty in all the nest ways as three teen detectives, decades past the tragedy that made them give up mysteries, are coerced by a serial killer and a new set of murders to come back home and dust off those investigative skills. #booksky

Get to the back of the train! Page 24 of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express🚂 is ready for reading. jdrozd.com/comic/the-ca... #DoctorBaer #KidLit #Spooky #Cute