As above, so on your bookshelf … Welcome back to Bookstrology! If last week was a gothic fever dream, this one’s a slow-burn thriller with unexpected plot twists. Pluto’s retrograde in Aquarius (starting May 2) is stirring up our collective shadows, and the Scorpio moon hangover hasn’t quite worn off. Translation? We’re all spiraling, but make it literary.
So whether you’re mood-reading with reckless abandon or methodically attacking your TBR like a Virgo with a spreadsheet, let the stars be your bookseller.
BookStrology Weekly Forecast: April 27 – May 4, 2025
♈ Aries
This week: You’re trying not to start drama, but people keep handing you monologues.
Mars is flexing its muscles and you’re riding the emotional rollercoaster without a seatbelt. Burn off the chaos with a character who’s even more unhinged than you (in a good way).
Read: A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Because vengeance tastes better with vintage wine and gothic prose.
♉ Taurus
This week: If it’s not luxurious, haunting, or emotionally catastrophic — you’re not interested.
Venus is vibing in your sign, and it’s giving dark academia but make it decadent. Indulge in something lush, literary, and quietly feral.
Read: The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Art, obsession, tarot, and a museum of secrets? You’ll be in your element.
♊ Gemini
This week: Your brain is tabs-on-tabs, and half of them are haunted.
Mercury’s still playing mind games, and your attention span is in retrograde. Lean into the chaos with a twisty story full of unreliable narrators and shifting realities.
Read: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Because no one spirals like a morally ambiguous intellectual.
♋ Cancer
This week: You keep saying you’re fine, but your dreams are screaming in Latin.
You’re feeling things so deeply, you might need a content warning. Time to crawl inside a book that mirrors your soft heart and monstrous thoughts.
Read: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Melancholy, marine horror, and the slow disintegration of love — dive in.
♌ Leo
This week: Your crown is slipping and you’re wondering if you ever needed it.
The Sun is side-eyeing Pluto, and you’re craving reinvention. Step into a story where identity is fluid, power is precarious, and every chapter could be a costume change.
Read: Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Dark, dirty, and artfully deranged … just how you like it.
♍ Virgo
This week: You’ve got a to-do list and a thousand-yard stare.
Reality is feeling a bit glitchy and your inner perfectionist is glitching harder. Embrace the surreal and surrender to a narrative you can’t control.
Read: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Alienation, social expectations, and a plush hedgehog named Piyyut. It’s weird — you’ll love it.
♎ Libra
This week: You’re torn between curating aesthetic perfection and emotionally combusting.
With Venus whispering sweet nothings and Pluto dragging skeletons from your closet, balance feels like a fever dream. Time for something elegant, eerie, and emotionally savage.
Read: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Because gothic glamour and ghost wives never go out of style.
♏ Scorpio
This week: You’re emotionally raw and spiritually radioactive.
That full moon aftershock? Yeah, still vibing. You’re craving depth, danger, and prose that bleeds. Let yourself fall into something seductively twisted.
Read: You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
Folklore, murder, and fae-fueled mystery — just your kind of bedtime story.
♐ Sagittarius
This week: You want to disappear into the wilderness, but like, with Wi-Fi.
Restlessness is high and reality’s feeling way too pedestrian. Find a story that blurs fantasy and survival — something wild, weird, and unapologetically fierce.
Read: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
Jungle magic, mythical monsters, and a hunt that might change everything.
♑ Capricorn
This week: You’re not brooding — you’re strategizing your villain origin arc.
Work is chaos, emotions are inconvenient, and you’ve got a kingdom to build (metaphorically or otherwise). Read something ambitious, intricate, and darkly glorious.
Read: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Pain. Power. War crimes. And a protagonist who stops apologizing.
♒ Aquarius
This week: You’ve got conspiracy theories, a dream journal, and a mild god complex.
Your mind is orbiting somewhere between “genius idea” and “full-blown cult manifesto.” Ground yourself in speculative fiction that challenges everything.
Read: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Weird nature, shifting identities, and science that doesn’t care if you survive.
♓ Pisces
This week: You’ve been crying over poetry again, haven’t you?
You’re extra sensitive, extra psychic, and extra in need of a story that speaks to your soul. Wrap yourself in something beautiful and brutal.
Read: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Secret libraries, timeless love, and prose that feels like a dream you half-remember.
Trust the stars. They know your reading vibe. 😊
And may your week be full of strange encounters, found families, and prose that leaves a mark.
See you next Sunday for another round of cosmic recommendations.
