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umm hi hello was anyone gonna tell me about these insane new covers for The Saint of Steel series by T Kingfisher? 😱

TRCC Recommends: Novellas!

so during the week I sat down and looked through my Goodreads history to find some novellas to recommend and this is what I've come up with 👀 I tried to focus on the more obscure ones but there are some popular favourites too. I've listed them below the cut with genre but if you wanna ask about anything in particular, I'm happy to chat :3

I already know about Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, Legends and Lattes, and The Honey Witch but from my very low-effort browsing on GR and in bookstores, I can't seem to find any others?

my Novella November tbr pile 🧡

so I've just pulled every book off my shelves that's 200 pages or less (and To Clutch a Razor because I've got it from the library right now lol)

i think my plan for Novella November will be to just grab one of these whenever I have to take the bus somewhere. I've got a lot of library books at the moment but I'm hoping these can fill in when I can't listen to my audiobooks

a solid effort for what's felt like such a busy month 👀 and such a broad range of books covered too - historical romance, memoir, fantasy, sci-fi, and my old friend horror all got a taste this month

my favourites were probably three of the reads i managed for the Trans Rights Readathon -- Herculine by Grace Byron, Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders and Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall. very different books but equal in their excellence, if I do say so myself

feel free to ask me about any of the books I read this month <3 I'm always happy to chat ^.^

Series read:

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall - 4/5

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older - 3/5

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older - 3/5

A Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older - 2/5

Australian books:

Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight - 3/5

See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill - 4/5

No One Is Safe by Ellie Marney - 4/5

Familiar authors:

A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander - 4/5

Make Me A Monster by Kalynn Bayron - 3/5

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon - 3/5

Portrait of a Shadow by Meriam Metoui - 1/5

Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent - 1/5

Other reads:

Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif - 3/5

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders - 5/5

Herculine by Grace Byron - 5/5

All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles - 4/5

107 Days by Kamala Harris - 3/5

The Vegetarian by Han Kang - 3/5

Dead Med by Freida McFadden - 1/5

The Lamb by Lucy Rose - 4/5

The Perfect Nanny (aka Lullaby) by Leïla Slimani - 4/5

On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 2/5

Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers - 3/5

If you liked Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, try A Letter to the Luminous Deep

They both include:

scholarly characters studying magical worlds

stories told in epistolary form