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3 Poetry book recommendations!

*First post !!* Just 3 of my current favorite poetry books that i want to share with the world <3 #hellolemon8 #bookreccomendation

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🧿CREATING A BOOK OF SHADOWS🧿

What is a book of shadows? A book of shadows is a personal journal that record rituals, spells, results, etc.! How to start one? 1. Get a blank journal. 2. Decorate it if you want to. 3. Then just record everything you’ve learned! You can put anything you want in it! There is no limit!!

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Totally addictive thriller book recommendations 💀

Unputdownable books for your TBR. These are perfect binge reads for a weekend #thrillerbookrecommendations #thrillerbooks #thrillerreads #thrillerrecs #lemon8bookclub

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My Favorite “Booktok” Books

5 books that i found through booktok that i love Books: 1. My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2. The Atlas Sox 3. Conversations With Friends 4. The Idiot 5. Boy Parts #booklover😌🤎 #booktok #lemon8bookclubchallenge #followformore #reading

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books I want to read this month

I'm still kind of riding that high from my August reading habits and have laid out, what is to me, an ambitious TBR. I'm a mood reader through and through so assigning more than one or two books to my monthly TBR is a recipe for disappointment. However I think I also need some structure in

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unhinged & existential book recs

One of my absolute favorite subgenres is unhinged female protagonists (antagonists??). I love books about nearly-feral teens showcasing the trials and absolute mania of girlhood, inner female struggles metaphorically manifesting into the paranormal, or the existential turmoil of being a woman in

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Sneak peek at book five 👀

Newsletter exclusive sneak peek - ends June 19! In the meantime, why not read the rest of the series? Rumor has it the eBooks are 💲⬇️ until June 19, 2026 👀 ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ 🕯️ Dark fairytale retellings 🕯️ Set to be 7 books 🕯️ 4 books are out in the wild 👇 🕯️ Technically interconne

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The Sapphire Ghost. Money won’t save you.

When the price is high and justice isn’t served—The Sapphire Ghost will convict. #thesapphireghost #lemon8bookclub #readersofbooktok #readersofsuspense

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The book cover for "Mr. Wrong Number" by Lynn Painter shows a man and a woman. Details include 350 pages, a Goodreads rating of 3.7, and that it's not available on KU, accompanied by a plot summary.

Closed-door Romances you won’t see on BookTok 🫶✨📚

I’ve been recently diving into books and authors that are not popular in Booktok. I’ve been wanting to really branch out in genre in authors and stories that arn’t just the same 10 circulating around. Here’s 4 “closed-door” books that I loved that you won’t find all over Booktok: 📚HELLO

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You won’t be able to sleep after these books🖤🤌

If you want to give your nightmares nightmares, l've got you covered. • Yellowface by R.F. Kuang is a nauseating deep dive into publishing and power. What happens when a white author steals a Chinese author's manuscript ... and publishes it under her own name? • It'll cause you phys

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Book: Ghost Whispers

Touch-starved love interest? The embodiment of Death being an OBSESSED boy? #paranormalromace #urbanfantasyromance #darkromancebooks #romantasy

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Spooky Books Recs Not Trending on BookTok

It’s still spooky season, so more spooky book recs! I went a little haywire with this one with some non traditional spooky books. I get so tired of seeing the same books recommended over and over again. So here’s some weird but still scary books for you to check out! If you can’t read t

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Enemies to lovers book rec ❤️‍🔥⚔️

Have you read this yet? Meet Kier and Ophelia in Every Dark Shadow and Every Thread of Light (Whispers of Dust and Darkness trilogy completing this year) Series tropes: 🗡️Bodyguard MMCs 🙎🏻‍♂️Multiple MMCs 🖤Shadow daddy 🗺️Human and magic realms ✨Unique magic system ⚔️Kingdom in rebellion

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Blind Date with a Book✨

Check out Boxes by Birdie for a date(with a book) that won't ghost you! Each Boxes come with a secret book, book stuff and extra goodies! All premium boxes come with an awesome canvas book themed bag! #blind date with a book #blindbookdate #booktok #smallbusiness #lemon8bookclub

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A scrapbook-style page in a recipe book detailing 'mini apple pies'. It lists ingredients like apples, flour, cinnamon, and pie crust, along with baking directions. Illustrations of apples and a pie are included.

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Recipe book ~Scrapbook style~

1. Mini apple pies 🍎 2. Salmon bowls 🍣 3. Blueberry watermelon sangria 🫐🍉 4. Crab rangoons 🦀 5. Chocolate banana overnight oats 🍌 6. Garlic lemon pasta 🍋🧄 7. Spooky pizza 🍕 8. Mini banana pancakes 🥞 9. Chocolate molten lava cake 🍫 10. Cucumber tomato salad 🥗 (I left some space on each p

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#heavymlburns #mlburns #BookReview #darkromance

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Girlies please read this book💗

Omg just finished it was sooo good 10/10 recommend. I picked up Detached & Desired thinking it was going to be another “act unbothered and he’ll chase you” type of book… but it’s not about playing games. It’s about finally getting tired of overthinking every text, and overanalyzing every vibe I

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Sapphic Romance/Thriller Book

Tangled Veils | a Sapphic Poc Romance and Thriller | Preorder available January 25th | #bookish #sapphicreads #sapphicbooks #indieauthor #booktok | book blurb: Grief has a way of staining everything-your memories, your heart, your sanity. Losing Hailee shattered me, but what came afte

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The book cover for 'Outlawed' by Anna North, featuring a woman in a cowboy hat. Text overlays indicate it is 272 pages of historical, speculative, and western fiction, along with a plot summary.

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*book covers that are giving spring energy

Book *covers* with spring vibes! The content…yeah maybe not. But still!! Cute covers! I love putting books together that look cohesive. When i still ran a bookstagram, i would spend foreverrrrr choosing books that looked best together. So i thought why not bring that to my lemon8??? Now, do the

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A hand holds the book "Find Him Where You Left Him Dead" by Kristen Simmons, featuring a dark cover with a Japanese-style building. Other books are visible on a store shelf in the background.

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Book finds at my local “Dollar Tree” that I took home. I’m honestly really impressed with these because I’m never able to find a single one that catches my attention‼️ 📚Book: Find him where you left him dead ⭐️Goodreads rating: 3.5 💵Amazon paperback price: $12.99 📚Book: The guest house

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The front cover of "The House in the Pines" by Ana Reyes, featuring a house in a pine forest, with text overlays "suspense" and "imagination."

What's your favorite thriller/mystery book?

The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes This is one of the first thriller/mystery books I picked up as a typical romance reader. It was definitely different, I think no matter if you love or hate this book, you will definitely finish it just to find out how it ends. The book leaves you confused and

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Book: Ghost Whispers

Love triangles? Touch-starved love interest? The embodiment of Death being an OBSESSED boy? With these tropes: • Enemies to Reluctant Allies (the TENSION 🤭) • Only One Who Can See Him (Death) • Magical Murder Mystery • Love Triangle (slow burn) • Forbidden Magic • Bargain with Death • To

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Grumpy/Sunshine Romance Book

Title is BENEATH THE STROKES by Amanda Courtney, releasing February 10th. BLURB: One day, Sage Anderson is putting on her wedding dress; the next, she’s leaving for her honeymoon with a man who’s not the groom. Callum Ridge is a grumpy do-gooder who looks down his nose at Sage’s obnoxious laug

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A hand holds the book 'Phantasma' by Kaylie Smith, featuring a skull and red roses on its cover. An overlay reads 'BOOK REVIEW RATING: 4/5'. The book's tagline 'The only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart' is visible. Digital graphics of a skull and roses are added to the bottom right.

💀🥀 BOOK REVIEW: Phantasma

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🕯️ Deadly trials. A haunted mansion. A bargain with a beautiful ghost. This book was everything I wanted in a dark romantasy: lush worldbuilding, slow-burn tension, and a main character battling both monsters and her own mind. The OCD rep? Heartbreakingly real. The romance? Slow, ang

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A paperback copy of 'Ghost Eaters' by Clay McLeod Chapman is shown with a book review card indicating a 3-star rating and notes that it 'Reads like a bad acid trip for 90% of the book.' The image also features 'BOOK REVIEW' overlay text.

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Reads like a bad acid trip for 90% of the book.

📖 Name of the Book: Ghost Eaters 📄 Plot: A 20-something woman becomes addicted to her dead boyfriend and is communicating with the dead. She has to choose between being addicted to him in a zombie like state- haunted by him and others or life. 📖 Genre: Horror 📄 My Favorite Quotes: “Here’s the

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Book Recommendation!

Forget about your typical stalker romance. He is a ghost and she moves into his home where he becomes obsessed with her. But there are people out to hurt her, will he be able to save her?

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I’m looking for some book recommendations!! 📚✨

I’d love to hear about your last five star read!! Here’s some of mine + a little bit about them below: - Enchantra: Dark romance + romantasy themes. The second book in a magical series with more to come. This one features demons, and games similar to Caraval. If you like a magical competition,

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The Sapphire Ghost

Justice doesn’t sleep. It haunts. Whispers tell of a man who moves through shadows— a phantom targeting the predators who believe they’re untouchable. For Gavin, the nightmares never end: a twin lost, children stolen. But from the ashes of grief, a ghost rises. The elite built empires on s

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MM Ghost Ops Romance Book

Zane- Book One in the complete Phoenix Squad series. Military found family, Ghost Ops, MM Romance. #mmromancebooks #romancebookrecommendations

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Eight fantasy book covers for January 2025 releases, including 'Language of Dragons' and 'The Queen's Spade', displayed against a library background with a search bar.

Eight fantasy book covers for February 2025 releases, including 'Compendium of Lost Tales' and 'The Dark Mirror', displayed against a library background with a search bar.

a fantasy lovers guide to new book releases

some books I am absolutely excited for! jan - may 2025 🩷📖 #fantasybookrecommendation #fantasybooktok #fantasybooks #bookrecs #newreleases

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read this book immediately!

This past month I finished a book that had been on my shelf for over a year and over course was kicking myself afterward. It had taken me so long to read a book I ended up loving! Better late than never though. Enter Ghost is a tender, realistic look at modern day Palestine and the complicated sens

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What bookmail did we get??

We got book pr from 5 publishers this week including 4 books from forever!! You can see what each book is about on the slides! We also got two books from HarperAlley which is a graphic novel imprint and this is the first PR I’ve gotten from them! And one from Algonquin which is my first boo

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Book recs based on my spice scale🌶️

Always check triggers before you read! As you can tell I prefer some spice in my books so I apologize there are not a ton of 1🌶️ recs Make sure you keep an eye out on my reviews I always include the 🌶️ ratings #lemon8bookclub #lemon8challenge #letschat #readersoflemon8 #spicesc

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Dark romance coloring book ghost 👻 face

#darkromancecoloringbook #horrorart #ghostface #

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Found footage style book

Follow the crew of ghost hunters on this once in a lifetime chance through Foundation House as they explore the unknown and try to solve what happened to the scientist in the 70’s who were making contact with spirits though odd experimentation. Adventure deeper into the heart of the haunting as we

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An open book on a patterned surface, showing a page with text highlighted in rainbow colors. A hand with dark nail polish holds the book, and a cloud doodle with raindrops is drawn above the colored text.

An open book on a patterned surface, displaying two pages of text. The left page has red highlighting and a fish doodle, while the right page features red highlighting and a doodle of a leg. A hand with dark nail polish holds the book.

this is your sign to destroy a book

It's been so fun to doodle in this book as a read it. •thrift or pick up an old book that could use some ✨spice✨ •don't think about it too much, just pick a sentence or a phrase that sticks out to you from each page and go from there •doodle/ draw! just a pen works too! you can even use

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Book: Ghost Whispers

She bargained with Death. She didn’t expect him to be beautiful. Sonia Byrd sees ghosts—and their whispered deaths burn through her bones. In a city ruled by mage politics and bloodlines, that gift makes her a target. When a murdered mage’s ghost pulls her into a forbidden House of magic, Sonia

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A collection of seven fall-themed books, including graphic novels and cozy mysteries, laid out on a cozy autumn blanket. The image has a text overlay 'FALL BOOK HAUL' with leaf and pumpkin icons.

Close-up of the graphic novel 'Pumpkinheads' by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks, featuring two characters surrounded by pumpkins and fall foliage on the cover.

Close-up of the cozy mystery 'It's Your Party, Die If You Want To' by Vickie Fee, showing a black cat on a dining table set for autumn.

FALL BOOK HAUL!🍁🎃

🍂📚 Fall Book Haul! 🍁 Cozy mysteries, graphic novels, and heartwarming stories to enjoy with a warm blanket and a cup of tea. 🍵✨ Perfect reads for chilly autumn days! 🍂🎃 - **Pumpkinheads** by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks: A graphic novel about friendship and fall adventures at a pumpkin

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Book: Ghost Whispers

One mistake bound her to Death. The bigger mistake? Falling for the detective who’s supposed to put her in cuffs. Love triangles? The embodiment of Death being an OBSESSED boy? A magical mystery that could cost you your soul? #paranormalromance #urbanfantasyromance #slowburnromance

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The book cover for 'Haunting Adeline' by H. D. Carlton, part of the 'Cat & Mouse Duet,' features a skull, roses, and moths on a dark, thorny background with a blue filter. The title and author are prominently displayed.

Haunting Adeline - Book l 🖤

I know I'm late to this party. My boyfriend was watching me eye this book for months until he got it for me for Christmas. (Financial situations are tough) I'm already on chapter 7 & feel like I can't put it down. Zade intreagues me. I wish we got more of a glimpse into his life, w

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Book review: Good Spirits

📖 Name of the Book: Good Spirits 📖 Genre: Romantasy 💭 My Thoughts: this was an excellent read! I will say it took me a bit to get into a good reading flow with this book because I thought it was going to be another Christmas Ghost of past, present and future read but once I got over that it was

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An advertisement for Sapphire Hale's new book, 'Pinkie Promise,' featuring a digital and physical cover. It highlights the book as a college sports romance with a hockey player and cheerleader, dual POV, cute skate dates, and a funny, sweet, and spicy story, available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Happy release day to miss Sapphire Hale! 🩷

Hi book friends! I hope you’re all doing well today. Happy release day to miss Sapphire Hale, who released the first book in her brand new series: Pinky Promise! 🩷 This is the first book in the ‘Carter Ridge’ series, and we follow our main characters Fallon and Hunter, with a hockey player x

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A luxurious bedroom features a black accent wall with molding, a white tufted headboard, and sapphire blue velvet bedding. Gold lamps on white nightstands flank the bed, beneath abstract art with blue and gold accents. A gold ceiling fan and a white bench complete the elegant design.

This elegant bedroom showcases a black accent wall, a white tufted headboard, and blue velvet bedding. Gold lamps sit on white nightstands, complementing the gold ceiling fan. Abstract art, one blue and one black and white, hangs above the bed, enhancing the sophisticated ambiance.

A stylish bedroom features a black accent wall, a white tufted headboard, and blue velvet bedding. Gold lamps on white nightstands and a gold ceiling fan add warmth. Abstract art with blue and gold tones adorns the wall, creating a luxurious and dramatic space.

Sapphire Dreams: Black Wall + Gold Lighting Inspo

This bedroom proves dark walls create the ULTIMATE luxury statement! 🖤 The contrast between the matte black wall and crisp white headboard creates a hotel-worthy focal point. Steal these dramatic bedroom ideas: • Sapphire blue velvet accents that pop against the monochrome base • Gold lighting

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A hand holds an open book titled "TOXIC" by Nicole Blanchard, with a red rose and a dessert in a glass. The overlay text reads "HE'S A 10 BUT... Book BF Edition."

A hand holds the book "TOXIC" by Nicole Blanchard, featuring a snake and roses on a dark cover. A dessert is next to it. The overlay text reads "He escaped from prison."

A hand holds the book "KILLING EMMA" by Annie Wild, with a dark cover featuring roses and a spiderweb. A dessert is next to it. The overlay text reads "He was hired to kill me."

He’s a 10 but… book edition 🖤

Which one do you think is worse? Scapes from prison doesn’t sound too bad does it? 🤣 All tho he used her to escape and treated her life! Have you read any of this books? #bookwormsoflemon8 #lemon8challenge

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Ghost Squad Book

The book is called “Ghost Squad” Author by Claribel A. Ortega This book is about an history teacher teaching the students about magic book and an girl student went to deep sleep in vision and the end she thought she was dead, unfortunately, she was in deep sleep in vision of rverythint what happene

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The front cover of the book 'Satan's Affair' by H. D. Carlton, featuring a woman, a carnival tent, and a skull, with a discount sticker.

The back cover of 'Satan's Affair' by H. D. Carlton, displaying a dark carnival tent illustration and a descriptive blurb about the book's content.

The front cover of the book 'Haunting Adeline' by H. D. Carlton, featuring a skull, butterflies, and roses on a dark background, with a discount sticker.

Booktok books 📚

I’ve seen these all over TikTok and lemon 8!😫😫😫 so i caved and bought them!😏🤷🏽‍♀️ i literally can’t wait to start reading them!!!! Im currently still reading kid by Jescie Hall idk I’ve been in a funk where I just don’t want to read at the moment and it’s taking me a little bit longer than usual to

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✨️ Book Review 📚 ✨️

Ruthless Creatures by J.T Geissinger was one I could not put down!! every chance I could get I was readinggg, its about a mafia romance with 2 people bound together by a debt that must be collected. This was my first mafia romance book & I'm definitely liking it, can't wait to get into

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A stack of three books, labeled 'Last', 'Current', and 'Next', with text overlays inviting viewers to 'join Lemon8 Book Club' and 'SWIPE' for more book lover content.

The cover of the book 'THE LIES I TELL' by Julie Clark, held by a hand with white nail polish, indicating it as the 'Last' read.

The bright green cover of the book 'YOU'D LOOK BETTER AS A GHOST' by Joanna Wallace, featuring a character holding a hammer, labeled as the 'Current' read.

Book lover life

Heyyy book lovers 😊 ✨ I’m new to this kind of thing and would love feed back on what you like about other peeps Last,Current and Next reading list? Summaries? Favorite parts with/without spoilers? Like I said I’m new to this hehe so for now I guess I’ll do my take. ✨ Also please share your l

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