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I don’t know what age you are so here’s my faves by category broken up into age groups:

Young Teen: The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre (Robin Talley), Ash (Malinda Lo) Lumberjanes (graphic novel) Cheer Up! (Graphic novel, WLW and trans rep)

YA:

Fantasy: We Set The Dark on Fire (Tehlor Kay Mejia) , Crier’s War (Nina Varella)

Romance: Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating, Epically Earnest

Mythology: The Valkyrie’s Daughter (Tiana Warner) , Remnants of Blood (H.F. Cunningham)

Graphic novels: Thieves (Lucie Bryon, out October) , The Girl From the Sea, RoadQueen, Rat Queens.

Vampires or Magic: The Coldest Touch, The Society For Soulless Girls

Coming of age / life problems: Not My Problem, We Are Okay (Nina LaCour)

Disability rep: Theivs (Lucie Bryon, cleptomania) The Many Half Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester (this one is NBLW but I LOVE it. Autistic rep and ace spec.)

Adult:

Sci-fi: Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir), The Stars are Legion (Kameron Hurley)

Fantasy: Malice (Heather Walter), The Jasmine Throne (Tasha Suri) The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)

Extreme spice: Theirs to Keep (Anna Stone), Queen Takes Rose (Katie Robert), Impact (Nikki Markham) Little Taste of Need (monster rom, Clio Evans)

Thriller: Four Point (Max Ellendale, strong TW’s)

Romance: Those Who Wait (Haley Cass)

Magic/ vampires: Dying For You (Jenny Frame, spicy.) The Atlas Six (Olivie Blake, book two is more WLW than the first but there’s many characters so not a huge focus) Carmilla & Laura (S.D. Simper)

Lit fic: Sedating Elaine

Non fiction: Bad Gays (Huw Lemmy)

Disability rep: Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley Jones (romance, one mc is a cane user with EDS & the other is autistic) , The Executive Liason by Anna Stone (autistic mc, spice) Hers to Keep (Chronic illness rep, spice), Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, Horror, autistic mc)

All time faves of mine: The Valkyries Daughter (YA), The Priory of the Orange Tree (A), Epically Earnest (YA), Gideon the Ninth (A) We Set the Dark on Fire (YA), Into the Drowning Deep (A)

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