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A favorite doughnut is like a good book: exciting, dependable, and absolutely delicious. It’s the perfect balance of sweet and savory, as cakey or as doughy as you desire – and okay, now we’re just talking about doughnuts. But can you blame us? Doughnuts are the best! Which is why,we’re bringing you a host of book recommendations, inspired by your favorite doughnut. Let’s dig in!

Jelly Filled

If you have a hankering for a jelly filled doughnut, chances are you’re not afraid to get a little messy. Which is why we’re recommending The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix to pair with that oozing strawberry jelly. Once you sink your teeth into that jelly, it’ll be hard to tell if you’re on team vampire or team vampire slayer. Make sure you’re on the right side of the fight because once you dive into Hendrix’s world – the subsequent doughnut sugar coma – it’ll be difficult to know fact from fiction.

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Old Fashioned

If your doughnut of choice is an old fashioned, we know diving into the world of Jane Austen will be a real treat, especially if her heroines are familiar. We recommend keeping it super classic with Pride & Prejudice, pairing the world of balls and long walks across the moors and botched proposals with this steady and reliable doughnut. You might even find yourself wondering: how would the Lizzie/Darcy story be different if they knew about the wonder of doughnuts?

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Frosted with Sprinkles

We’re here to tell you that doughnuts that are frosted with sprinkles are more complex than they seem. But of course, we’re not ignoring the sprinkles of it all. These doughnuts are incredibly sweet and fun. They remind us of childhood, but we’re not afraid to eat them as fully-grown adults. Which is why we’re recommending pairing this book with a comforting and addicting young adult novel like Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston. It’s as familiar as a fairy tale, with some modern surprises – just like this delicious doughnut!

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Cream Filled

If you’re a fan of cream filled doughnuts, chances are you’re a lover all things sweet. Fingers crossed that extends right down to your reading material because we think that a sweet and chewy romance novel, like Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, is just the ticket. And just like reading a romance novel, with its wealth of frustrating obstacles to keep the leads apart, eating a cream filled doughnut can be a messy experience. But we’ll be right here with a stack of napkins – and maybe a tissue or two, for the happy tears.

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Doughnut Holes

If you’re always reaching for doughnut holes for the variety and bite sized satisfaction, we know you’re going to love the short stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties. These stories range from retellings of campfire tales to meditations on the state of Law and Order: SVU – and everything in between. It’s a wild ride and you never know what you’re going to get, much like in a delicious mixed dozen of doughnut holes.

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Let’s face it: our friends are the best thing in our lives right now. They’re the best thing in our lives always, but with all the distractions of commuting and commerce and “normalcy” (whatever that means, right?) pushed to the side over these past few months, our friends have remained a constant – like the co-protagonists of our lives that they are. Today we’re celebrating unlikely friendships in literature and pop culture. Because all of our truly favorite people IRL started out as our own unlikely companions.

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As readers, we’ve always reveled in this idea that we can travel incredible distances without ever leaving the comfort of our own home. We’re taking that sentiment to heart these days – especially now that international travel feels like a fantasy and taking a plane or train anywhere is an unnecessary risk. To celebrate the summer vacations we’re not taking, we’ve gathered some of our favorite books – books where the international setting truly feels like another character. Go the extra mile by reading each of these books with a friend or family member. That way, you can “travel” together.

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Cheer Up the Lonely Day is coming up and let’s face it: we’re all a little lonely out here. Whether we’re still quarantining (flatten that curve! wear your mask!) or just simply in a melancholy state of mind, we can all use a little company – even if that company comes in the form of fictional characters in our favorite books and movies. And hey, even fictional characters crave a little companionship. And what if they’re simply stuck in the wrong universe. Today, we’re pairing some of our favorite bookish characters with lonely characters from movies and TV. Because everyone deserves a friend!

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You know the old saying: friends who read together, stay together. While we’re big fans of book clubs, deep down we know that the best book clubs aren’t clubs at all – they’re pairs of best friends agreeing to read the same book, just so the other doesn’t have to go through all those literary feelings alone. As we continue our socially distanced friendships, two-person book clubs are one of the only things keeping our spirits up. So, we wanted to spread that joy to our favorite fictional BFFs. Enjoy!

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Right now, it might seem like a meteor or asteroid would just be another event on the bad-year BINGO sheet of 2020, but not all meteors are bad ones! In fact, if we want to get technical about it, meteors are rarely bad ones, as a meteor is a part of an asteroid or meteorite that has broken off, headed toward Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere, creating a beautiful streak of light across the sky.

The scary stuff is the asteroid itself, that big hunk of space-rock (we’re getting less technical now) that is the Big Bad of so many disaster movies. But even then, some are definitely a little more frightening than others, and we’ve got some of the biggest, baddest, and best right here.