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LitsyEvents
Untitled | Anonymous
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repost for @Soubhiville

It‘s time again, unbelievably, to think about next year‘s #AuthorAMonth! Please nominate authors you would like to see highlighted in the comments. I will organize them into genre categories again, I felt like that worked well for this year, so if you are inclined you can include the genre you think the author fits best (you don‘t have to, I will look them up if necessary)

Poll to follow in a week or so!

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Texreader
Adulthood Rites | Octavia E. Butler
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Pickpick

Akin is the first male human-alien, with super-human/alien abilities—such as talking and adult-level comprehension at two months old. Anyone who has refused to mate with the aliens—resisters—are sterile. So on earth, kidnapping children is rampant. Akin is kidnapped by resisters and forced to live with a resister couple. Once he‘s recovered a year later, he has come to know and sympathize with the resisters. But he‘s still alien with all their ⬇️

Texreader their desires (see my review of book one) and biology. In other words, he must go through metamorphosis to become an adult, at which point he may not even resemble a human anymore. He‘s made it his life goal to find a way for resisters to survive and recover their ability to procreate, a monumental task, given that he is truly alien, the nemesis of resisters! All this, while also ensuring the aliens—his family—continue to thrive. ⬇️ 1h
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Texreader
Dawn | Octavia E. Butler
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Pickpick

To be blunt, this trilogy is about human/alien hanky-panky. It‘s for folks who are comfortable with kind-of creepy ménage a trois.

Humans have finally destroyed earth in an all-out war. Aliens have saved the world and recovered and put to sleep the few remaining survivors until the aliens have healed the planet. Then the aliens have made the humans sterile, unless the humans will mate with them. ⬇️ #authoramonth

Texreader That‘s how the aliens survive, diversifying their own gene pools. These books are straight up alien porn. I‘m shocked previous reviews on Litsy don‘t point this out.

Lilith is awoken and then forced to awaken the first group of humans who will eventually go back to earth, and she‘s the first forced to mate with one of them and bear their children. Humans do what humans do, they become hostile to Lilith and one another, foreshadowing the ⬇️
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Texreader next 2 books, which are about two of her many alien children. 2h
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Soubhiville
My Favorite Authors | Thomas Costley
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It‘s time again, unbelievably, to think about next year‘s #AuthorAMonth! Please nominate authors you would like to see highlighted in the comments. I will organize them into genre categories again, I felt like that worked well for this year, so if you are inclined you can include the genre you think the author fits best (you don‘t have to, I will look them up if necessary)

Poll to follow in a week or so! (Genre List ⬇️)

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Bookwormjillk Ohhhhh, I will think about this and come back with a list. Thanks for hosting again! 23h
Soubhiville ⭐️ These are the genres currently on my list, but also feel free to nominate other genres! : Fantasy, SciFi, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, NonFiction, Classics, Romance, Poetry, Middle Grade/ Young Adult, Repeat Author, Horror, Thriller/ Suspense/ Mystery (edited) 23h
Soubhiville @Bookwormjillk I can‘t wait to see who you suggest! 23h
Soubhiville ⭐️ authors must have 5 or more published books to make the poll! 23h
CatLass007 I don‘t usually read poetry but I think AAM would be a great place to start. I don‘t even know who to nominate. But I definitely will vote for someone in this category when it‘s voting time. 23h
Soubhiville @CatLass007 Same, I read very little poetry. But I‘m not necessarily opposed to trying! 23h
TheBookHippie Poetry plays Shakespeare 😂♥️ (edited) 23h
TheBookHippie Poetry: Adrienne Rich, Mary Oliver, Andrea Gibson, Nikita Gill… 23h
BarkingMadRead Omg I faked epically this year! Hopefully I manage better in 2026! I blame cancer followed by separation 🤣 23h
SamAnne @BarkingMadRead Oof. Understandable. Hope health is on the upswing and life gets more stable. 23h
BarkingMadRead @SamAnne cancer free, getting healthy, and doing not terrible personally 😆 thanks! 22h
AmyG Ruth Rendell (mystery), Shannon Bowring (literary fiction), Wally Lamb (literary fiction), John Marrs (mystery/thriller), Abby Jimenez (contemporary romance), Niall Williams (literary fiction) Literary fiction meaning General fiction (edited) 22h
Amiable Nonfiction: Hampton Sides, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ron Chernow, Walter Isaacson, Tracy Kidder, Jon Meachem, Garrett M. Graff, Candice Millard 22h
Deblovestoread All fiction: Lindsay Faye, Stuart O‘Nan, Catherine Chidgey, Elif Shafak, Rose Tremain, Ali Hazelwood 21h
Singout Barbara Pym, Chimamanda Ngozie Achide, Lisa Moore, Emma Donoghue, Richard Wagamese, James Baldwin, Jeannette Winterson, Barbara Kingsolver, Miriam Toews, Thrity Umrigar, Chitra Banerji Divakuruni, Yiyun Li, Vivek Shraya, Rebecca Solnit, Tony Hillerman, Lisa Si, Pat Barker, Jesmyn Ward. Mostly literary fiction: some writers include memoir, Solnit and Baldwin are political analysis, Hillerman is murder mystery. (edited) 20h
dabbe @BarkingMadRead You are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. 🧡💜💛 19h
staci.reads John Boyne, Kirsten Miller, Richard Russo, Rosamunde Pilcher, Richard Powers, Kate Morton, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Charlotte Perkind Gilman (general fiction/literary fiction) 16h
staci.reads Robert Jackson Bennett, Alix E Harrow (Sci Fi/Fantasy) 16h
staci.reads Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron (mystery) 16h
Skygoddess1 Didn‘t take part as much this year as I have year‘s past, but hoping to get back into next year. 13h
Skygoddess1 Recommendations: Joe Hill, Kiersten White, Grady Hendrix, Christina Henry, Stephen Graham Jones, Ali Hazelwood, Taylor Jenkins Reid 13h
Susanita Rebecca Solnit, John Irving, Geraldine Brooks 9h
willaful From my “read more of“ list: N. K. Jemisin (fantasy), Jandy Nelson (YA), Ann Patchett (fiction), Amor Towles (historical fiction), Naomi Kritzer (science fiction), Juliet Marillier (fantasy), Tim Farrington (fiction), Jane Gardam (fiction). 6h
AnishaInkspill suggesting Anne Carson who has written poetry, plays, translations and I think a novel and maybe essays 2h
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Susanita
Fledgling: A Novel | Octavia E. Butler
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Pickpick

Compelling. Poignant. Thought provoking.

Interesting characters, not all fleshed out fully, but this made sense as we were seeing the world through the eyes of the MC.

Sad that it was her last book.

#authoramonth

Soubhiville I like the way you‘re keeping track. ✅ 24h
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Daisey
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Mehso-so

I finished listening to this over the weekend, and I‘m still not sure what I think about it. I frequently found the way the narrator described things and how he inserted himself in the story entertaining. However, the way things came together at the end seemed abrupt to me, and my overall impression was more a so-so than a pick.

I put this on hold for #AuthorAMonth, but just now got to it.

#1001books #audiobook

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DHill
Old Man's War | John Scalzi
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Even though I‘ve just finally finished my June #AuthorAMonth book, this is easily going to be one of my favorite books of the year.

@Soubhiville

Soubhiville Scalzi is usually fun 4d
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Texreader
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Having fallen in love with Kate Quinn thanks to #authoramonth, bought on last trip to Arizona.

JenReadsAlot I loved Diamond Eye! 4d
BennettBookworm She is one of my all-time favorite authors! 4d
AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼☺️👍🏼💝. 4d
Texreader @JenReadsAlot @BennettBookworm I had a couple of her books because I love historical fiction, but hadn‘t read her yet. Then I read several books by her for #authoramonth and Wow! She‘s awesome!! 3d
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Texreader
Imago | Octavia E. Butler
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Wrapping up this trilogy with this audiobook. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

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