Did you know that today, March 31st, is Transgender Day of Visibility? It is a day dedicated to celebrating trans people and raising awareness of the discrimination and violence that the trans community faces every day. To celebrate, I’m sharing a trans book rec list that I posted on my bookstagram a few days ago! You can find the specific post here on Instagram (and it is on Twitter/X here). These are books that feature trans characters or are written by trans authors (and here I am including nonbinary identities under the term trans). I’ve included a good mix of books I’ve read and books on my TBR, and have a few upcoming releases as well! So let’s get to the list!!

I know that not all of us have been readers since we were tiny humans. Not all of us were lucky enough to have that exposure! I was one of those fortunate enough to start reading very early, as my parents are both big readers. My friend Brooke (who I met on Bookstagram) is also someone who started reading early. To celebrate that, and the books we read as youngsters, she create a rereading challenge for 2023. It is called “23 and Me – The Books That Made Me.” It’s about rereading the books that were super formative for you! The information post from Brooke is below, along with the specific prompts.

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!

If you know me and my reading tastes, you know that I will read any and all books that involve necromancy or bone magic. Fall is slowly creeping up on us – very slowly, in my case (desert life…). And obviously necromancy and bone magic are both pretty spooky! So I decided to compile a short list of books that involve one or the other! I bet you can guess one or two of the ones I’m going to include haha. Read on to see if you guessed correctly!

Hi friends! Are any of you video gamers in addition to being readers? I follow some other great bloggers who talk both books and video games, such as Caitlin at Realms of My Mind, and Kirsten at Video Games as Literature. Go check them out!

I came to video games late in life, since my parents weren’t big on them. I mostly game on my Nintendo Switch, but I’ve watched my boyfriend play quite a few games on the PlayStation (4 and 5). There are tons of games that have really great storylines and characters, and a lot of them make me want a book adaptation haha. And vice versa, I’ve read a lot of books that I think would make really interesting games! That inspired me to do a post all about pairing video games and books that have similar themes, settings, characters, etc. Sooo yeah that’s what I’m doing today! I hope you enjoy this post, it was fun to write and combine two of my hobbies.