To avoid another reading slump, I’m reading at random, mostly Eva Lovelle, since her books tend to be shorter, and I have over 200, but I read some, and she publishes something every week, hence why I suspect the use of AI. However, I haven’t gotten fed up with her work yet. I know it’s nearly the end of the month, but I just joined the Gay Sh!t readathon, and 98% of the books I read this month can be submitted for points. The issue is that I read a lot. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl, who has a new weekly topic.
June 23: Books on My Summer 2026 To-Read List. I have a TBR right, so this should be easy wrong. I’m a mood reader, so pushing what to read isn’t a good idea.
Goodreads Blurb:
When Edna Morrison arrives at a remote Scottish lighthouse in 1908, she finds Millie Fraser—the fierce keeper’s daughter who refuses to leave her father’s light. Isolated through brutal winters, they forge a bond deeper than friendship. But the lighthouse holds Edna’s mother died twenty years ago trying to keep a promise to Millie’s father. As storms rage and the past surfaces, both women realize they’re honoring promises made before they were born—and making new ones that will echo through generations.
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A philosophy professor fleeing her failed marriage. A lonely bookstore owner who’s given up on love. One chance encounter at a 24-hour diner at midnight. Elena has eight hours until her flight home—eight hours to decide if one perfect night is worth rearranging her entire life. Sloane believes in fate, but can she trust that this connection is real? As dawn approaches, two women must choose between the safety of their separate lives and the terrifying possibility that some people are worth the risk. A dialogue-driven romance about authenticity, courage, and finding home in another person.
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Coming from a small, rural town in North Carolina, Sawyer grapples with what it means to grow up queer, where the population of queer people was, to the untrained eye, non-existent. Nuanced with the societal constructs of the gender binary, they deconstruct what it means to be queer in an evangelical Southern family. From growing up being a family proclaimed “tomboy,” to joining the Army under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sawyer brings you a collection of essays detailing everything from coming out, to family life to church hurt and everything in between. Candid, honest, insightful, and sometimes breathtakingly haunting,
Coming Home is all about finding your queer voice in a heteronormative world. With an honest zeal for life, this set of essays will show you what it truly means to come home.
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Love-cursed journalist, Quinn Harris, has a terrible talent for being at the wrong place at the right time. When a chance reunion brings him face to face with a flame from his past the sparks quickly turn to ice as evidence of foul play arises! He soon learns that it’s no coincidence his high school crush disappeared years ago, without a trace. It’s also no coincidence that his victims look exactly like Quinn… The body count and the stakes are high as Quinn works to unravel the truth behind a string of unanswered murders that hit dangerously close to hom
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Edward “Eddy” Turner’s entire life is a battlefield.
Growing up gay in the violent and poverty-stricken streets of East London, Eddy’s childhood is haunted by the shadow of bullying, rejection, and his domineering football hooligan father. Enrolling in medical school is his only lifeline – but it only catapults him into a fresh set of struggles that will define the rest of his life.
From the brutal front lines of the Falklands War to the impoverished mining communities of Northern England and the drug-fuelled raves of London, Eddy desperately tries to numb his pain and escape his inner demons. But his efforts are futile – and with the spectre of AIDS hanging over his head, he’s helpless to prevent his closest friends from succumbing to the disease.
But Eddy can’t hide forever. After a protest turns violent, he’s left fighting for his freedom against a biased court system that’s hell-bent on jailing him for manslaughter. His story quickly ignites a national frenzy as his case hits the headlines. And when Eddy makes a shocking discovery about his past, he must re-evaluate his entire life and decide what’s really important.
Can Eddy escape the shadow of his father’s judgement? Or will he never be able to accept himself for who he is?
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Blake desperately needs a fake date for their ex’s wedding. To their dismay, their frenemy Eris is the sole volunteer.
Two years after moving to the city, Blake is struggling. Friends are hard to make as an adult, especially for an introverted law student whose childhood sweetheart quickly moved on with their only friend. When the inevitable wedding invitation arrives, Blake turns to their brunch meetup of queer misfits for a fake partner. Someone to help prove that they’ve moved on, that they’re happy too…and because they lied to their ex about seeing someone.
Only the abrasive, rude, and heavily tattooed Eris volunteers—not exactly the date Blake pictured as evidence for thriving. Eris acknowledges that ze may be an asshole, but for one weekend, ze’ll be Blake’s asshole. With no other options, Blake hatches a plan to fool everyone back in their small hometown. A plan that, unfortunately, requires getting to know Eris.
As long-swallowed conflicts erupt at the wedding, Eris helps Blake stay grounded, and the sparks between them ignite. But opening their heart to new possibilities means revealing parts of themself Blake would rather keep hidden. This plan to find closure never accounted for real feelings—especially not their ex’s.
Goodreads Bkub:
Hell’s most incompetent demon meets Earth’s most hopeless romantic.
All Ethan wanted was someone who could help him find love—or at least someone to pop his cherry. A spell from an odd book he found at the library promised him a wish from Cupid. Sure, some of the ingredients weren’t easy to get, but he could improvise. Was there really that much difference between dried laurel leaves and coriander?
He never meant to summon a demon.
Malphas hasn’t been to Earth in a hundred years, not since he accidentally created a massively successful support group for gamblers and saved hundreds of souls from damnation. As punishment, he’s stuck in Hell’s archives filing dusty prophecies because his boss is convinced he’s incapable of being properly evil.
When Ethan’s summoning yanks him topside, he sees his chance to prove himself. He’ll make a deal with the human—and collect that blindingly bright soul.
All he has to do is to help Ethan get together with his crush.
What could possibly go wrong?
Amazon Blurb:
He was supposed to fix his image. Not fall for the enemy’s little brother.
A scandal nearly ruins billionaire hotel tycoon Reyes Navarro’s empire—until a carefully staged romance offers the perfect cover.
His target? Vale Soriano. Charismatic. Principled. And the younger brother of his greatest rival.
Reyes never meant for it to feel real.
Vale never knew it started as a lie.But when love grows out of manipulation, the truth cuts the deepest.
And not every apology comes with a second chance.
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Oscar has spent a great deal of time reading romance books in order to be able to criticize them on his website. Everything seems to be going well for him, since he´s got a large number of followers who support him, make reading recommendations and are delighted with his way of attacking unoriginal works.
But what would happen if Oscar suddenly transmigrated into one of those novels he criticized?
What if he landed right into the worst of them all?
No, more than that… What would happen if he was reincarnated as the cannon fodder destined to die by the hands of the villain?
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Julien, a young man who died five years ago at the age of thirty, is sent back to Earth on a mission he must decipher alone. Reincarnated for a limited time, invisible to the living, he wanders the streets and landmarks of his hometown — its boulevards, its bridges, its old castle — guided by cryptic signs scattered by mysterious beings.
When he spots Franck, the man he loved in his youth, tending a bar counter, everything becomes clear. A danger is lurking. But time is running out.
Between the urgency of his mission and the rediscovery of a love interrupted too soon, Julien must navigate two worlds at once — the earthly and the beyond — while confronting the wounds inflicted by a society that, even now, struggles to fully accept those who love differently.