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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 8d

Explore the world through a different and often humorous lens. This month we’re bringing you some silly romps from all over the universe!

The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our November 2025 theme is…

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER & QUIRKY 🤪

🧵 Read on to learn now...

A graphic with a dark graphic decorated with brightly colored mushrooms and glowing objects. Text reads “Queer & Quirky” in a rainbow gradient. At the top is "Rainbow Crate" with a rainbow in between the words and "presents" underneath. At the very bottom it reads "- November 2025 Theme -" in all caps. Text is in a rainbow gradient.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

🌈 Subscription spots & one time boxes are sold out until renewals are processed on October 15th.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

Rep: mlm, autistic selectively mute queer mc, gay mc, pansexual aromantic sc, chronically disabled sc
CWs: Brief mention of miscarriage, brief mention of cancer, off-page death of a parent, side character with multiple sclerosis

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

I never saw a future where Lucky could be mine. But now, unless I want to lose my friend, I might not have a choice but to tell the truth. My heart belongs to him. It has from the start.

If only I knew how to hold onto a creature that’s meant to fly.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

So why, when I finally try to get over him, does he sweep back into town? Why is he upset? Why is there tension between us for the first time in years?

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

He drew me in, stole my heart without trying. He hears me, even though I rarely speak a word. But I always knew this place wouldn’t be enough for my free-spirited friend. I knew he wasn’t mine to keep.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

SUMMARY: There’s a lot I’ve never told my best friend. The fact that I love him. That I miss him every day he’s gone. That, sometimes, I ache for him with a ferocity that leaves me breathless.

Lucky Buchanan tore into my life as a boy, wild and daring, my opposite in every way.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

- Cover & Interior Design by Rainbow Crate!
- Illustrated & Foiled Hardcase by @chiquicreates.bsky.social !
- Endpapers illustrated by @kalisdice.bsky.social ! (Different front and back)
- Printed Edges by @/MRoseDesigner!
- Bound-In Author Letter
- Signed by the author!

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

FEATURING:
- Childhood Best Friends to Lovers!
- Autistic & Mute MC!
- Romantic Declarations!
- Stargazing!

RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVES:
- All-new Dust Jacket illustrated by @/Caihos.Reads!

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 9h

🌈 Introducing Book 2 of our November Small Town, Big Heart R.A.D. crate!

Welcome to To Catch a Firefly by Emmy Sanders @emmysanders.bsky.social ! 🧵

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 15h

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Pages:
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Adventure, LGBT

Full Review for The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez. Lovely edition which you can see the photos in thread from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
#booksky📚💙 #diversebooksky #queersky #readersky #review

The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez
Photo collage featuring a carved quetzlcotal, arrows, a magical flower, a bridge over a jungle, a young Mexican woman in a beaded finery dress with flowers, a priestess pouring medicine into a pot, patterned textiles, and a temple in the jungle

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 14h

Current work read during downtime. Yet another lovely special edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social so far im really enjoying this and I'm about 1/4 of the way through. Legend of The White Snake is definitely one of my favorite Chinese Tales.
#booksky📚💙 #diversebooksky #queersky#readersky#promosky

Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee

Featuring a pastel cover with two men lovingly gazing at one another. One in white robe finery and the other in black gold and red robes.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

Our team has finished reading through all of the entries we got for the Spring Anthology. We are finalizing our choices and expect to begin reaching out to selected authors next week. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted stories, we are thrilled there were so many entries to read through.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

We are getting ready to clear out some of our old inventory, which means we will be hosting a Last Chance sale! We will have a variety of books discounted from October 15th to October 31st. Full Announcement of what’s included in the sale to come on the 15th.

A photo of a Rainbow Crate box on top of nine hardcover books. The edges face the camera and everything sits on an empty white bookshelf.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

Both photo challenges will start on their expected start dates. The September box will start October 22nd and be open until mid-late November. The October box will start November 22nd and be open until mid December.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

October tracking should update by Monday, October 13th. If you are missing tracking information for either box by Monday and it is not in your account, you can email customer support at [email protected] for additional help.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

Both September Where the Magic Happens and October Help My Roommate’s Hot crates have shipped out. Tracking for September should have been updated by now, please login to your account and check your orders for tracking information.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 19h

🌈 Happy Thursday Rainbow Readers! We have a handful of shop updates for you today! 🧵

📷: Thank you @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the photos.

A photo of a Rainbow Crate box on top of nine hardcover books. The spines face the camera and everything sits on an empty white bookshelf. Text at the bottom reads “Shop Updates” in all caps white font with a pink outline.

Books included (top to bottom): Outdrawn by Deanna Grey, Of Love & Libraries by Brenna Bailey, The First & Last Demon by Hiyodori, Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan, Faces by A.M. Rose, It’s a Queer, Queer Summer edited by Rachel Skelton, Upside Down by N.R. Walker, Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh, Where the River Meets the Soul by S. Nicole.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday! Hope you love our edition of Peter Darling 🥰

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Starkly @starkly.bsky.social · 1d

It's my birthdayyy 🎉
Ordered myself some books to celebrate and the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social version of @essaychant.bsky.social by coincidence arrived today :D didn't expect the perfect timing on that lol

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

October boxes are expected to ship by the end of the week for renewals. If you subscribe or get a one time purchase before the cut off, your box will ship out next week. Extra October boxes will be available in the shop next week.

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

The October box will be available until the end of the day on October 8th, subscriptions will be closed starting October 9th. On Nov 1st, we will reopen subscriptions and one time boxes for our November box: Queer & Quirky.

Subscribe to Rainbow Crate!

Our original queer book box subscription. Each box comes with 2 hardcover, fully customized, special edition queer books. For a spicier option check out our quarterly subscription Rainbow After Dark...

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

It’s your last chance to get a one time purchase or subscribe to Rainbow Crate for the October Help my Roommate’s Hot box! Our October books are Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao and And They Were Roommates by Page Powars! 🧵

A graphic of a pink background with a white polka dot. At the top in a white font with a red outline it reads “October Subscriptions Open Now!”. Below this is a translucent gray rectangle. In the rectangle is the October theme image with the cover of Make Room for Love on the bottom left and the cover of And They Were Roommates on the bottom right. Both book covers are outlined in a red frame.

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 1d

Short Review for this lovely special edition of, Of Love and Libraries by Brenna Bailey courtesy of @rainbowcrate.bsky.social you can see more photos in 🧵 below!
#booksky📚💙 #diversebooksky #queersky #promosky #review #books #bookish

Whirls Review
5/5
☆☆☆☆☆

Emotional and inspiring. Set in a small town
Cute dogs
Diverse and rich cast Chinese-Canadian MC.
Elderly romance and community building
Cozy and romantic
Second Chances at love and returning home

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 1d

Finally! I know I've taken forever but here is my full and complete review for Someone You Can Build A Nest In by @wiswell.bsky.social links to photos of this beautiful special edition from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social in

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#booksky📚💙 #review #promosky #diversebooksky #queersky #readersky #bookish

5/5 ☆☆☆☆☆
John Wiswell
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Featuring a film reel with a field journal. Vials of portions. A person walking through fall leaves in a classic witch hat. Hung up rosemary. A woman brandishing a dagger. A bear reaching towards a person's hand

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

If your box needs to be reshipped because you did not get your address updated on time, you will be responsible for any reshipping fees.