12 Book Recommendations From 12 Friends

One challenge that is very popular on bookstagram is the “12 book recommendations from 12 friends” challenge. I think the idea is to read one of those 12 for each month of the year. I wanted to do it this year, but I did it a little differently. Since you know that one of my goals is to reduce my physical TBR, I had my friends choose books from my physical TBR!

I made this graphic to keep track of the 12 books, and so I can easily post it in my stories on bookstagram. This also lists all of my friends who chose the books! If you’re on bookstagram you should absolutely follow them all.

graphic displaying 12 Book Recommendations From 12 Friends. it is 12 book covers in a 3 across by 4 down grid

The theme this year seems to be my friends yelling at me to read sapphic books hahahah. I am very embarrassed to not have read the “Sapphic Trifecta” yet haha. Especially since I got them all right when they each released!! So I’m glad my friends chose them. Now I have no excuse to not get to them hahah. Those three trifecta books are: She Who Became the Sun, The Unbroken, and The Jasmine Throne. A lot of the other books are sapphic as well!! The Priory of the Orange Tree, Into the Drowning Deep, and The Fifth Season are ones that I am pretty sure are sapphic.

And A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, God’s War, and Brotherhood are (I believe) queer! I mean I guess it’s not a surprise by now that most of the books I read are queer haha.

One of these that I’m PARTICULARLY excited for is Bound Feet. This novella is horror, which is out of my usual genre. HOWEVER. One of my best bookstagram friends is the author!! I highly recommend you check out her work, which you can see on her website.




Have you read any of these? I’d love to hear your thoughts on them!!

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