I was afraid I’d lost my reading mojo over the course of the summer, but July proved me wrong, offering up multiple riveting reads across multiple genres and subgenres. I might actually be on track to beat last year’s book total if I keep going at this rate! And that victory will be due to books like The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics and Three Part Harmony, and authors like Sangu Mandanna and Rebecca Roanhorse, who keep knocking it out of the park with titles in their respective SFF series.

I feel like 2019 has been a real bounty in terms of finding diverse and inclusive romances across all my favorite categories—whether it’s Olivia Waite’s lush, nerdy, historical romance about a lady astronomer and her patroness, or Sona Charaipotra’s Doogie Howser-inspired YA about a genius teenage doctor who isn’t necessarily smart about everything in her life, or Holley Trent’s slow-burn polyamorous love story with three very different people finding out how they fit. And then you have these gobsmacking projects like Sangu Mandanna’s space opera rendition of The Mahabharata. I ended book two with a big ol’ sense of “Holy shit! Where’s book three?!” If anyone reading this post picks it up, I hope you have the same reaction!

The Reading Rundown:
Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra (young adult romance, young adult fiction)
Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter and Ned’s Ultimate Travel Journal by Preeti Chhibber (children’s/middle-grade fiction, MCU tie-in)
Desire and the Deep Blue Sea by Olivia Dade (contemporary romance, novella)
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev (mainstream fiction, contemporary romance)
Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo (young adult romance)
More Than Stardust by Vivien Jackson (sci-fi romance, post-apocalyptic)
A House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu Mandanna (out 9/17, science fiction, fantasy, Mahabharata retelling)
The Cowboy by Molly O’Keefe (contemporary romance, erotic romance)
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (urban fantasy, post-apocalyptic)
Three Part Harmony by Holley Trent (out 8/19, contemporary romance, ménage/polyamory)
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (historical LGBT romance)

Backlist adventures: Off the Edge by Carolyn Crane.

Currently reading: Adonis Line by Dakota Gray.

On the TBR/wishlist:
Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews
Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
Hard Chrome by Vanessa North
The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe