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Fictional Favorites and Real-Life Stories to Read with Your BFF This National Best Friend Day

Female friendships are intimate, intense and often life-defining. Whether they are decades-long sisterhoods, fleeting yet powerful connections, or platonic partnerships that will outlast romantic relationships, these bonds deserve center stage. In honor of those messy yet magical relationships, we’ve rounded up some of the most compelling titles that explore the depth…
Kelsey Hall
June 9, 2025
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Queer YA Stories for Pride and Beyond

Young adult fiction has always offered readers a window into the intense emotions and discoveries that define adolescence. For LGBTQ+ teens, stories that reflect their experiences — first crushes, identity exploration, family struggles and friendships — can be especially powerful. Queer coming-of-age books do more than just entertain; they provide…
Katie Bloomer
June 16, 2025
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Must-Read Voices in Trans Literature

Radical love for ourselves and others is essential to moving forward in all ways of life. Learning about queer, trans and fluid perspectives changes the way we approach the world: not with fear, but with unconditional care for each other and our lived experiences. For me, it started when I…
Kendall Farris
June 20, 2025
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Get Hooked on Siren Songs and Mermaid Tales

There’s always been something a little … suspicious about mermaids and sirens. Stories of their hypnotic songs and mesmerizing beauty have enchanted sailors for centuries, but what if there was more to the legend? What if their allure wasn’t just about magic but something else entirely? After all, anything that…
Monique Snyman
March 14, 2025
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8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

We all have baggage — but some of us have a full matching set labeled Dad. Whether he was absent, overbearing or just emotionally unavailable, the father figure looms large in literature. These eight books dive headfirst into the complicated, messy, sometimes tender, but often painful relationships we have with…
Kelsey Hall
June 12, 2025
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7 Books That’ll Lure You Into the Shadows

There’s something intoxicating about stories where the line between reality and something more slips just enough to make you question everything. Books where the dead whisper, the air hums with unsaid things and the uncanny becomes ordinary.  Whether you’re drawn to girls with dangerous gifts or towns steeped in secrets,…
Monique Snyman
June 11, 2025
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6 Books That Helped Me Get Into the Mind of a Killer

In No Lie Lasts Forever, a retired serial killer coaxes a disgraced journalist into finding the imposter trading on his name. I never thought I would write a “serial killer novel,” but when an idea clamps its teeth down and won’t let go, well, you succumb and start doing your…
Mark Stevens
June 2, 2025
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Because Motherhood isn’t Always Flowers and Breakfast in Bed

Mother’s Day usually shows up dipped in pastels and wrapped in performative gratitude, but motherhood? That’s another beast entirely. It’s brutal. It’s sacred. It’s messy, fractured, feral. And if Sigmund Freud taught us anything (besides the fact that therapy is expensive for a reason), it’s that the mother-child bond is…
BookTrib
May 9, 2025