Aj Sterkel

My Year In Nonfiction I'm going to tier rank all the nonfiction books I've read this year (so far).

It's (almost) Nonfiction November! To celebrate, I'm tier ranking all the nonfiction books I've read this year. Check it out: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-y...

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Books About Book Nerds I'm a book nerd! If you're reading this, I bet you are too. Let's celebrate our love of books by talking about books starring book lovers.

Do you read books about bookish characters? I do! Here are my favorite fictional bookworms: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

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Books I'm Reading In Fall A mix of spooky, mysterious Halloween books and Nonfiction November books. I hope they're perfect for fall.

I went book shopping and came home with 10 books to read in the next few months. Have you read any of them? What did you think?

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Books I'm Reading In Fall A mix of spooky, mysterious Halloween books and Nonfiction November books. I hope they're perfect for fall.

I went book shopping and came home with 10 books to read in the next few months. Have you read any of them? What did you think?

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Books Under 130 Pages (Convince Me To Read Them) The end of the year is creeping ever closer. Will you hit your Goodreads reading goal? My strategy is to read a bunch of short books.

Long time, no see! I'm trying to get back into reading and blogging. Here's my effort to do both: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

What's your favorite short book?

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Books Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters Are you building your reading list for Pride Month? Or maybe you just need an awesome book to read at any time of the year.

Are you building your reading list for Pride Month? Or maybe you just need an awesome book to read at any time of the year. Here are 10 books I read (or reread) recently that feature LGBTQ+ characters: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...

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A Gentleman in Moscow is on my TBR list. I'm looking forward to it!

Quotes From Classic Books My goal this year is to read more classics. I've done a pretty good job with it so far. Here are some quotes from recent classic reads.

My goal this year is to read more classics. I've done a pretty good job with it so far. Here are some quotes from recent classic reads: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/03/quot...

What's your favorite quote from a classic book?

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a man is sitting on a couch reading a book in a living room . Alt: A man is sitting on a couch reading a book in a living room. He screams a curse word and throws the book out the window.

Do you ever DNF books for extremely petty reasons? I read 30 pages of a book today. The author doesn't know the difference between an EMT and a paramedic and doesn't understand what either of them do. Is that too petty of a reason to chuck a book into the donate box? I'm annoyed.

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Kindred is on my TBR list. I'm excited for it.

I hope you like it!

My Favorite Historical Fiction Books Ever If I had to choose a favorite genre, I'd pick historical fiction. History is weird, and beautiful, and scary.

If I had to choose a favorite genre, I'd pick historical fiction. There are so many interesting stories an author can tell. I learn something new every time I read a historical book.

Here are 10 of my favorite historical fiction books: ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-f...

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Best Books By Black Authors Between 1950 and 2018, ninety-five percent of traditionally published books were written by white people.

Between 1950 and 2018, 95% of traditionally published books were written by white people. I'm not sure if publishing has gotten more diverse since this study was done, but I suspect not. Let's encourage change:

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Book cover of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk. The cover has an image of two trees made out of words. There is a girl sitting between them. She's writing in a notebook.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

50/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins. It's a black and white illustration of a face with a giant black beard. The beard takes up almost all of the cover.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

49/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Vicious by V.E. Schwab. The cover is red with a black illustration of a man walking away. The man is walking on a path made of bones.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

48/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The right side of the cover is a silhouette of a face in profile. The other half of the cover is white.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

47/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of The Lottery And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson. It's a photograph of a woman holding a purse with both hands. The woman is wearing a beige suit. The purse is white.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

46/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell. The cover is beige with an illustration of a brown wolf.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

45/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. The cover is a photograph of a mural. The mural shows a chipped image of Trevor Noah with his hand on his head. A Black woman is walking past the mural.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

44/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Scythe by Neal Shusterman. The cover has red and beige stripes. In the center of the cover is a person in a red cloak. They are holding a black scythe.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

43/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. The cover is light blue with an illustration of two heads facing each other. One head is solid yellow. The other is solid white. They are both men.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

42/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Happy Valentine's Day. I'm In Love With A Sentient Object. There are quite a few books about humans who love . . . stuff. Sentient objects. Literally any random thing. Here are 10 of them.

I noticed a trend. There are quite a few books about humans who love . . . stuff. Sentient objects. Literally any random thing. I had no idea this genre existed. In honor of Valentine's Day, let's celebrate sentient object love!

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Book cover of Furiously happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson. The cover is a photo of a taxidermy raccoon with crossed eyes and its mouth open. It is being showered with yellow glitter.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

41/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. The cover is a blue-tinted photo of a European city. The majority of the photo is taken up by the sky and the ocean. The church is the tallest building in the city.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

40/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick. The cover is purple with a red circle in the middle. There are 2 illustrated white rabbits. One is at the top of the circle. The other is at the bottom.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

39/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The cover image is a black and white illustration of a child swinging on a tire swing that's hanging from a tree branch.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

38/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The cover is dark blue with a black and white snowflake pattern.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

37/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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Book cover of A Separate Peace by John Knowles. The cover is an illustration on a blue background. There is a tree in the foreground. One teenage boy is standing under the tree. Another boy is standing on a tree branch. There's a white school building in the background.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

36/20 <-- Let's just keep going because why not?

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