pleasure reading: curated book lists + tbrs with friends

Summer is for sports romance! And let’s make it sapphic, shall we? This season, I’m reading queer romances about softball, volleyball, basketball, hockey, tennis, F1, and more. Tune in as I recommend: Running Home to You by Samantha Saldivar Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen Rooting Interest by Cat Disabato Stick Around by Eliza Lentzski Set Point by Meg Jones Make Your Move by Melissa Brayden Find all the books (& more sapphic sports romances) at: https://bookshop.org/lists/sapphic-sports-romance Also, I'm taking a break from the pod until EOY! So I'll see you in December for my best books of 2026. More from Amelia: 📖 Follow what I'm reading on Storygraph 📝 Send me a message 📚 Shop my used books on Pango 🎁 Gift me a book from my Bookshop wishlist

It’s “swimsuit season,” and I’m popping in as your resident fat-girl-in-a-bikini to share 5 books to help you break up with diet culture. Tune in as I recommend: You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon The Body is Not an Apology (& accompanying workbook) by Sonya Renee Taylor The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King Find all the books (& more anti-diet-culture recs) at: bookshop.org/lists/books-to-help-you-break-up-with-diet-culture More from Amelia: 📖 Follow what I'm reading on Storygraph 📝 Send me a message 📚 Shop my used books on Pango 🎁 Gift me a book from my Bookshop wishlist

You may not know this about me… but I love tarot. I’ve been working with the cards for a decade, and I have another podcast all about it, called my tiny tarot practice. I’ve read a ton of tarot books (and bought even more tarot decks), and in this episode I’m sharing my four favorites — the books I return to over and over again as I connect with myself and the cards. Tune in as I recommend: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack Tarot for the Wild Soul by Lindsay Mack (& the Soul Tarot deck) Tarot for the Hard Work by Maria Minnis Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore Find all these books (and more tarot recs & decks) at: bookshop.org/lists/my-tiny-tarot-practice More from Amelia: 📖 Follow what I'm reading on Storygraph 📝 Send me a message 📚 Shop my used books on Pango 🎁 Gift me a book from my Bookshop wishlist

This spring on my podcast Off the Grid we did a whole series on AI. Part of that series included a reading list... which felt perfect to bring over to Pleasure Reading! So today I'm sharing the 7 books that shaped my perspective on AI and helped me reclaim my creative attention in the process: Supremacy by Parmy Olson Unmasking AI by Dr. Joy Buolamwini The Practice of Attention by Cody Cook-Parrott Making Time by Maria Bowler The Listening Path by Julia Cameron I also (finally!) tell you about my own book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — which is all about attention, creativity, and technology. More from Amelia: 📖 Follow what I'm reading on Storygraph 📝 Send me a message 📚 Shop my used books on Pango 🎁 Gift me a book from my Bookshop wishlist

Wanna go down a sunken book rabbit hole with me? 🤿 In this episode, I tell you the story of why I spent the past four months reading underwater books... including my fave shipwreck, cave-diving, and sea creature reads that I now highly recommend. For the first time in pleasure reading history, I also include movie, tv, and podcast recommendations! Because this underwater theme truly took over my entire media landscape. 🪸 Find all the books here: https://bookshop.org/lists/underwater-horror-thriller-sci-fi-recs Find all the movies here: https://letterboxd.com/ameliaaaaaaaphd/list/underwater-freaks-like-me/ More from Amelia: 📖 Follow what I'm reading on Storygraph 📝 Send me a message 📚 Shop my used books on Pango 🎁 Gift me a book from my Bookshop wishlist