Maude’s Book Club
Maude’s Book Club
5 New Queer Novels To Add To Your TBR
Pride Month is the best month to settle into your summer reading list!
Some new book releases with queer representation are surprising everyone this year.
We found five novels to add to your TBR with some fantastical elements and emotional connections.
Maude’s Book Club is currently reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab. Join our book club today to help choose our next book!
Top 10 #BookTok Recs To Add To Your TBR
#BookTok has become the new Tumblr for the book community. The good thing is that more people are reading, making everyone else interested.
Some books on #BookTok are hits, such as the Quicksilver and Windy City series. However, the platform enables new authors to gain popularity and have word of mouth spread about their incredible books.
There are plenty of new books to check out from the #BookTok tag, and that’s why we’ll curate some good ones for you!
Check out the books currently trending on the platform so you can add them to your TBR!
‘Divine Rivals’ Adaptation Moving Forward At Paramount
Amid the ACOTAR series adaptation falling through and Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series still in pre-production, Paramount has acquired the rights to the Letters of Enchantment Romantasy series Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross.
Bonus Book of the Month: ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’ by Amal El-Mohtar
Happy Pride Month!
This month, our BONUS BOOK OF THE MONTH has been on our TBR for a while, and thanks to #BookTok, Amal El-Mohtar’s This Is How You Lose the Time War has been on everyone’s list.
We love using our platform to amplify women’s voices and more importantly, queer voices throughout the year!
Join our live book chat on Twitch to discuss the series together!
Join our book club today and help us vote for our 2025 books.
Book of the Month Preview: ‘Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil’ by V.E. Schwab
Who else is in Summer mode?
We have a brand new release from Maude Garrett’s favourite author, V.E. Schwab, as our pick in June!
Our BOOK OF THE MONTH for June is BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V.E. Schwab.
If you’ve been with our book club since The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, you know we will always support Schwab and her newest release. She can transport the reader to another realm, and that’s the beauty of her writing.
The MBC community always has fun discussions in Discord and engages in in-depth analysis during our live book chats on Twitch!
If You Like ‘Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Chaos Rising’, Add These To Your TBR
Maude Garrett is a massive Star Wars fan and has had the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy on her TBR for a while. The Star Wars franchise has grown immensely because of the sequel films and the television series.
Fortunately, fans have become great authors and created an extension of the universe through their novels. Each author has given secondary characters incredible depth, making fans love these characters even more than before. There’s more Star Wars lore for everyone to appreciate.
The 10 Most Anticipated Summer 2025 Releases
Summer is almost here!
And that means another quarter of the most-anticipated novels to look forward to! If you’re a mood reader, there is always a shift in the summer. If you’re like me, there’s a shift to more light-hearted romances that catch your eye. For this summer season, there are debut novels from authors, and other authors have returned with another great addition to their bookography.
Bonus Book of the Month: ‘Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy #2 Greater Good & #3 Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn
It’s STAR WARS month!!
This month, our BOOK OF THE MONTH is a full trilogy, so we decided to read the next two books in the Thrawn Trilogy - Greater Good and Lesser Evil for our BONUS BOOKS.
Maude Garrett has been a HUGE Star Wars fan, and it’s finally time to get this famous little trilogy off the TBR list!
Join our live book chat on Twitch to discuss the series together!
Join our book club today and help us vote for our 2025 books.
Book of the Month Preview: ‘Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy #1 Chaos Rising’ by Timothy Zahn
Oh, hello, May!
If you’re a massive Star Wars fan, you know it’s the month for Star Wars because of May the 4th. Maude Garrett has been meaning to read the Thrawn trilogy, and our community members thought this would be the perfect time!
Our BOOK OF THE MONTH for May is Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
If you’ve been waiting to read Thrawn Ascendancy, join us this month!
The MBC community always has fun discussions in the discord and an in-depth analysis during our live book chat on Twitch!
If You Like ‘The Last Of Us’ Add These To Your TBR
One video game adaptation that has taken the world by storm is The Last of Us. Season two premiered last week, and fans of the game know exactly where it’s headed. However, the element of surprise is still present in many non-gamer audiences.
Maude Garrett is a huge gamer who attempted to play The Last of Us, but our Boss Reader is also not the biggest horror fan.
If you love The Last of Us and are excited to watch the rest of season two, check out the post-apocalyptic novels you should add to your TBR!
The 10 Best Vampire Novels To Add To Your TBR
If you’ve been a fan of vampire lore for years, get ready to dive into some new projects. The books on the list below are some vampire classics and some modern takes on the iconic lore. No matter how many films are released about the demon in the night, something keeps everyone coming back for more.
If you’re a fantasy lover or are ready to tackle a new sci-fi novel, there’s something for everyone this winter!
Bonus Book of the Month: 'A Court of Wings and Ruin’ by Sarah J. Maas
If you know Maude Garrett, you know she has read the ACOTAR series from beginning to end four times over. We read A Court of Thorns and Roses last January. When the community loves a series, we continue to read them for book club as our BONUS BOOKS.
Last October, we read the second novel in the ACOTAR series, A Court of Mist and Fury. For April, we wanted to continue in the world of fairies with A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas.
On our discord, we have a Sarah J. Maas and ACOTAR channel where the MBC community has lively discussions. Come join our live book chat on Twitch so we can all gush about this series together.
Join Maude’s Book Club!
We know that the internet can be a tough space to navigate and that’s why we want to create a safe space for everyone in the reading community to be able to discuss their favourite books with other bookworms.
Not only do community members interact with other book lovers and creator Maude Garrett, but Maude connects with the authors of the books directly so the community can also discuss the book with their favoruite authors.
