The Bookish Mindset

This blog was wrote as an accompaniment for my 2025 reading challenge, check out all the details here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

Read on for Indigenous characters at the forefront across many a genre!

Literary

• Bellies – Nicola Dinan
• Disappoint Me – Nicola Dinan
• Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
• The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi
• Freshwater – Akwaeke Emezi
• Nevada – Imogen Binnie*

YA Coming of Age

• Welcome to St. Hell – Lewis Hancox (Graphic Novel)
• Escape from St. Hell – Lewis Hancox (Graphic Novel)
• Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms – Crystal Frasier (Graphic Novel)
• Felix Ever After – Kacen Callender
• Girlmode – Magdelene Visaggio*
• Home Body – Theo Parish*

Horror

• Old Wounds – Logan-Ashley Kisner*

Fantasy

• Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – Juno Dawson (first of a trilogy)
• Pet – Akwaeke Emezi
• Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas*
• Sunbearer Trials – Aiden Thomas*
• An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon*
• She Who Became The Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan*

Historical

• Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix – Anna-Marie McLemore*
• Wrath Goddess Sing – Maya Deane*
• The Gods of Tango – Carolina De Robertis*

Romance

• This Feast of a Life – Cynthia So*
• If You Recognise Me – Cynthia So*
• Meet Cute Diary – Emery Lee*
• A Lady for a Duke – Alexis Hall*
• The Companion – E.E. Ottoman*

Non-Fiction

• The Transgender Issue – Shon Faye
• What’s the T? – Juno Dawson*
• Pageboy – Elliot Page*

Those with a * denote that these books are on my TBR and I haven’t read them, just for full transparency.

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of any of the above, you can support local bookshops while doing so on Bookshop.org with this link here.

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And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.

Last updated 30/12/24