When the cosmos gets cryptic, crack open a book.
Welcome back to BookStrology! This week crackles like static before a summer storm. With the Taurus Sun cozying up to Jupiter, and Mercury finally behaving, we’re in our main character era — but it’s giving emotionally complex and dramatically unbothered. Add a Pisces moon midweek and we’re spiraling in slow motion (with great lighting).
So, whether you’re plotting your escape or orchestrating your glow-up, let the cosmos curate your next read.
BookStrology Weekly Forecast: May 5 – 11, 2025
♈ Aries
This week: You’re flirting with burnout and calling it productivity.
You’re not bored. You’re starved for something to shock your system. Find a story that runs wild and refuses to be tamed.
Read: Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
An island stuck in the ’90s, a woman unraveling a conspiracy — creepy, culty, and just unhinged enough.
♉ Taurus
This week: You’re resisting change while craving transformation.
Jupiter’s expanding your comfort zone … but gently. You need a book that’s beautiful, broody, and a little dangerous.
Read: A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan
Obsession, social media, and surreal horror. It’s satire with teeth, and it’s quietly devastating.
♊ Gemini
This week: Your personality split is on speaking terms.
You’re not two-faced, you’re multi-faceted, and you need a book with layers. Lots of them.
Read: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
Gothic, medical horror, haunted house vibes — think Crimson Peak meets Grey’s Anatomy with blood magic.
♋ Cancer
This week: Your emotional support water bottle is judging your life choices.
You’re longing for connection but also hiding under ten blankets. Read something that understands your need to ache softly.
Read: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
A Shirley Jackson–sanctioned haunted tale with theatre kids, ghosts, and emotional rot. Absolutely perfect for your haunted little heart.
♌ Leo
This week: You’re giving “lead in a prestige miniseries.”
The drama is high, the stakes are personal, and your inner monologue deserves an Emmy.
Read: Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
Coastal obsession, coming-of-age ache, and prose so cinematic it might ruin you.
♍ Virgo
This week: You want control, but the chaos keeps making itself at home.
You’re tired of fixing everything. Let go (a little) and dive into a slow, eerie unraveling.
Read: The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
A haunted house story that doesn’t play by the rules — unsettling, architectural, and deeply psychological.
♎ Libra
This week: You’re curating your crisis.
You can make heartbreak look like high art, but wouldn’t it be nice if someone else fell apart for once?
Read: Tremor by Teju Cole
Lyrical, intellectual, and quietly explosive. This book leaves elegance smudged with smoke.
♏ Scorpio
This week: You’re seductive, suspicious, and two seconds from uncovering a truth you weren’t ready for.
Indulge your taste for the twisted, but make it meaningful.
Read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Motherhood, madness, metamorphosis … primal and oddly empowering.
♐ Sagittarius
This week: Your body is here, but your soul is hitchhiking across dimensions.
You need adventure, but not the Instagrammable kind. No, you need something that gets weird fast.
Read: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Brutal, bizarre, and utterly original. This one will punch you in the brain (lovingly).
♑ Capricorn
This week: You’ve got ambition poisoning and a God complex in remission.
You want a story that mirrors your silent chaos. Something smart, intense, and deeply human …
Read: Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Messy women, self-destruction, and the economics of love. It’s brutal but surgical.
♒ Aquarius
This week: You’re building a worldview and dismantling another all before breakfast.
Tap into your prophetic weirdness with a story that defies genre and logic.
Read: The Employees by Olga Ravn
Sci-fi workplace existentialism with poetic dread. Perfect for your future cult syllabus.
♓ Pisces
This week: You’re emotionally porous and the veil is thin.
Get lost in something that feels like a dream, a memory, and a premonition all at once.
Read: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Reality bends, memory lies, and there’s a cat narrator. It’s beautiful. It’s terrifying.
Trust the stars. Burn the map. Read weird.
Catch you next week for more literary astrology chaos.
