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Here are the 12 books I’m reading in September: youtu.be/niQFZwEYXUo
SEPTEMBER 2025 TBR | Monthly Reading List | Black Contemporary & Urban Romance Book Recommendations
YouTube video by Talia Cadet
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September 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Here are the 14 books I read in July!

❤ Romance
🌶 Erotica
🌊 Fantasy
👻 Horror
🙏🏾 Christian

Watch here [15 minutes]: youtu.be/GQkefQSv2vY #booksky
14 BOOKS I READ IN JULY 2025 | Romance, Fantasy, Horror and Christian Book Recommendations #booktube
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August 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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✨12 BOOKS I’M READING IN JULY✨

Highlights:
-50% non-Romance 😳
-50% roll overs from previous TBRs
-Reveal of my next live author interview 👀

Full monthly TBR video: youtu.be/3EiIjPz1vI8 #booksky
JULY TBR | 12 Books I’m Reading this Month | Black Romance, Historical Fiction, Thriller & Christian
YouTube video by Talia Cadet
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July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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✨ 9 BOOKS I READ IN JUNE 2025 ✨

📚Unexpected Passl
📚One Last Puck
📚Snow King Catches His Snowflake
📚Givin' is a Gift
📚Cappadonna 3
📚Cappadonna 3.5
📚Church Girl
📚Love in the Studio
📚Pretty Girl County

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9 BOOKS I READ IN JUNE 2025 | Black Romance + Black YA Book Recommendations 📚 #booktube
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July 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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14 Black Romance Books with rappers, singers and producers:
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🎵 MUSIC INDUSTRY Romances | 10 BLACK ROMANCE Book recommendations with Rappers & Singers #booktube
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June 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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NEW: 10 indie Black romance books I haven’t read yet 😬

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STACK OF SHAME | 10 BLACK ROMANCE BOOKS I'm too embarrassed to admit I haven't read yet #booktube
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June 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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12 books I’m in June: youtu.be/6PHVQsqkC6I?... #booksky
JUNE 2025 TBR | 12 Romance, urban, fantasy, ghost & LGBTQ+ books & MORE Black Romance Book Fest tea
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June 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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✨21 Books Read in May 2025✨

Here are my thoughts on all of them plus 9 story times from Black Romance Book Fest: youtu.be/PUx97iZt_g4

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MAY 2025 READING WRAP UP | 21 Romance, YA, crime fiction, memoir books + Black Romance Book Fest tea
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June 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Not someone asking me on Threads asking me if I ever read a Kennedy Ryan book. Ooooh baby. Not to brag, but you must be new here. 😂😂😂😂 #booksky
May 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Aspiring authors in the DMV: Quill and Company and the City of Laurel, MD is looking for the next great author.

If you're from the area (Laurel + 30-mile radius), consider applying to the Next Bestseller literary competition.

Details and apply: www.quillandcompany.com/events #booksky
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Here are the 12 books I’m planning to read this month.

May 2025 TBR video: bit.ly/4lZSeUY #booksky
May 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Here are the 18 books by Black authors I read in April 2025: www.instagram.com/reel/DJJkEVB... #booksky
May 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Here are the 16 Black romance, historical fiction and paranormal books I read in March 2025.

Watch my longer-form Monthly reading wrap-up: youtu.be/OmHsgcEd8Vg

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April 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This is the worst news I’ve gotten all month.
blackfilmalerts.bsky.social Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · Mar 27
The viral ‘Pop the Balloon’ Youtube dating series has been greenlit for a Netflix show. Yvonne Orji is set to host.

This time with a live version that will air every Thursday at 8pm EST from April 10th.

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March 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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13 new inductees into 🏆Talia’s Book Boyfriend Hall of Fame🏆 this quarter.

Here are the romance and erotica MMCs that menned at the highest levels in Q1 2025: youtu.be/Gnw3uevQlY8

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BOOK BOYFRIEND HALL OF FAME 🏆 | Q1 2025 Inductees | 13 Black Romance Recommendations #booktube
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March 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Myah Ariel’s latest Hollywood romance novel has ALL the Ms:

🎶 Music
🎤 a Mariah Carey-inspired MC
👿 a Messy Mogul ex
👩🏾 Mommy issues
⚱️ a swoon-y Museum scene
🌊 Modern Malibu Mansions
🥵 an MLB bad boy named Miles who is a MAN

My review of No Ordinary Love: youtube.com/watch?v=vvZs...

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BOOK REVIEW | No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel | Hollywood Contemporary Romance Novel #booktube
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March 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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INTERVIEW: Author Myah Ariel talks to me about her new Hollywood romance novel ‘No Ordinary Love’ and debut hit ‘When I Think Of You’

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 #blackbooksky

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Romance author MYAH ARIEL talks NO ORDINARY LOVE and WHEN I THINK OF YOU with TALIA CADET #booktube
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March 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Myah Ariel’s newest romance novel No Ordinary Love is SWOON-Y AF!

You’re going to love Ella and Miles. 🧡

Join me and Myah for a live chat tonight on TikTok at 6:30pm ET: bit.ly/4bKtLy8 #booksky
March 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I got SEVERAL exclusives during my chat with J.L. Seegars on Talia’s Book Nook this week…

📚 New Haven Vol. 2 series
📚 Pub date for The Illusion of Power
📚 Book 3 and beyond for the Fairview series
📚 J.L.’s first ROMANTASY 👀

Watch our interview: youtu.be/Bgv1vZOO02U

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Romance author J.L. SEEGARS talks SPEAK and SPILLS ALL THE TEA on future books | Talia's Book Nook
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March 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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✨20 BOOKS READ IN FEBRUARY✨

📚BookFAX📚
11 audiobooks
5 novellas
17 romance and erotica
2 historical fiction
1 psychological fiction

Monthly reading wrap up: youtu.be/R8K39azf11Y

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FEBRUARY 2025 READING WRAP UP | 20 Black Romance & Historical Fiction Books I Read #booktube
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March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Recap and review: #DragRace S17 E6

Let’s Get Sea Sickening: taliacadet.substack.com/p/talia-talk... #dragracesky
Talia Talks TV: RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 17, Episode 6 - Let's Get Sea Sickening Ball)
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February 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Happy pub day to the incredible and talented @richardwriteson.bsky.social!

In honor of Losing Sight, here’s my Talia’s Book Nook chat with Tati from last month. Fun times! 🧡🧡🧡

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Romance Author TATI RICHARDSON Talks New Novel LOSING SIGHT with TALIA CADET | Talia's Book Nook
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February 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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In Can’t Get Enough, NYT bestselling author Kennedy Ryan gives us a love story only befitting of the likes of Hendrix Barry.

My review: youtu.be/bEXileH5Cno?... #blackbooksky
BOOK REVIEW + Tears | CAN'T GET ENOUGH by KENNEDY RYAN | SKYLAND 3 | Contemporary Romance #booktube
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February 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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New-in physical books this week.

1. The Junie cover is STUNNING. And I love the Black-owned touch with the Be Rooted Co. pen. Thanks, Penguin!
2. A manuscript of Happy Land. I can’t tell you why I have this until 2/10. 👀
3. Third installment of Evermore. BriAnn Danae did that!

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February 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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We up! #blackbooksky
February 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM