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#readwomen, abookolive, bookslikewhoa, booktube, Emily Croy Barker, Emily Skaja, Hollow Kingdom, Ink and Paper Blog, Jean BookishThoughts, Karen Walker Thompson, Kira Jane Buxton, Marilou is Everywhere, Martha Wells, Mary Roach, Murder Bot Diaries, Packing for Mars, Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Real Talk: Booktube is not my favorite thing. It tends to be overloaded with YA and is lacking in diversity in just about every category. That said, there are four channels that are pure gold.
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Jean BookishThoughts is produced by a Scottish academic, who reads across genres and always manages to surprise me with her recommendations. It was because of her that I fell in love with Martha Wells’ Murder Bot Diaries series.
Currently, there are four, killer novellas about a rogue sec unit thrown by its human side. Start reading now because a full- length “sequel” is due out in 2020.
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Mara of bookslikewhoa describes her reading tastes as “omnivorous” and it certainly shows. After her mini-review, I devoured Emily Croy Barker’s The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic. 
It is comparable in size to one of Gabaldon’s Outlander tomes and is about a grad student who walks into an alternate world full of medieval-ish magical beings. Really absorbing and also due for a sequel.
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Ink and Paper Blog (owner of awesome bookshelves) is the place to go for mainstream and indie reads. Recent favorites from his channel are Karen Walker Thompson’s The Dreamers, Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom and Sarah Elaine Smith’s Marilou is Everywhere.
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abookolive has fantastic non-fiction picks and is not too shabby in the other categories either. Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars and Ruth Reichl’s Save Me the Plums were gems I found because of her channel.
Any booktubers you love? Let me know in the comments.
