@ben_readz_books

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@ben_readz_books

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501

Books

135

This Year

Mainly reads fiction books that are adventurous, mysterious, and dark. Typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long.

Currently Reading (4)

To-Read Pile (423)

Survival Tips from Queer Elders: How Surviving the AIDS Epidemic Can Help Our Communities Survive COVID-19
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Aaron Beaumont

Currently reading (4)

a body more tolerable by jaye simpson

Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Mainly reads fiction books that are adventurous, mysterious, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long.

Read recently

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller

The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness

To-Read Pile

salt slow

Julia Armfield
A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Jules Gill-Peterson
Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

5 starreads

Winter Turning by Tui T. Sutherland

Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

That's Not My Name by Megan Lally

Concrete Kids by Amyra León

2025 Reading Goals

ben_readz_books has read 135 books this year.

Books

135/225 books

Books

135/225 books

60%

Achillean Alphabet Challenge

A sapphic book for every letter of the alphabet

Hosted challenges

Physical TBR Knockout

12 books | 8 participants

Fantasy TBR Knockout 2025

27 books | 1 participant

Queer ABC’s Challenge

26 prompts | 51 participants | 520 books added

Achillean Alphabet Challenge

36 prompts | 19 participants | 603 books added

413

Five-Star Reads

117

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