Book Recommendations

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  • Science

    • Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom by Carin Bondar
    • Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham
    • Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
    • Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs by James K. Wangberg
    • Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
    • When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy
    • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker


  • History

    • Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
    • Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
    • All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
    • Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    • The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
    • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald
    • The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
    • The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
    • Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
    • Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood
    • When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon
    • Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang
    • Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder
    • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
    • The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel
    • The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian


  • Romance

    • A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy
    • A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
    • The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho
    • Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian
    • Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh
    • The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran
    • If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
    • The Secrets of Charlotte Street Series by Scarlett Peckham
    • The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian
    • A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian
    • Belles of London Series by Mimi Matthews
    • Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
    • Can't Help Falling by Cara Bastone
    • A Girl Like You by Gemma Burgess
    • Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie


  • Science Fiction

    • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
    • Mirage by Somaiya Daud
    • Samaria series by Sharon Shinn
    • The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
    • Dawn by Octavia Butler
    • Parable series by Octavia Butler
    • Sleepless series by Nancy Kress
    • Genesis by Bernard Beckett
    • Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
    • Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
    • Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
    • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor


  • Fantasy

    • Any series by Juliet Marillier
    • Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
    • The Dauntless Path series by Intisar Khanani
    • The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
    • The Clocktaur War series by T. Kingfisher
    • The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Series by Theodora Goss
    • The Gold Seer Trilogy by Rae Carson
    • Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo
    • Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore
    • Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud
    • Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    • The Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher


  • Middle Grade

    • The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
    • The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
    • Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
    • A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
    • A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
    • The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
    • Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
    • Hollow Chest by Brita Sandstrom
    • Claidi Journals by Tanith Lee
    • Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast Series by Clete Barrett Smith
    • Alien Adventures Series by Bruce Coville


  • Dystopias

    • The Getaway by Lamar Giles
    • This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
    • The Bannerless Saga by Carrie Vaughn
    • Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
    • Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
    • The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
    • The Wild Shore by kim Stanley Robinson


  • Historical Fiction

    • The Kopp Sisters series by Amy Stewart
    • My Real Children by Jo Walton
    • Girl at War by Sara Novic
    • The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri
    • The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
    • Any book by Stacey Lee
    • Any 1920s ghost mystery by Simone St. James
    • The Last Queen by Chitra Divakaruni
    • Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
    • Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

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