Recs if you like Stay True...
books your pretentious friend has heard of
let me tell you my story
audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!
Asian Authors
An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.
You Should Start a Zine
DIY publishing for the masses — fiction and non. Reject the algorithm and express yourself!
SISTER LISTS: Radical Craft History | When Artists Go to Work | What's In Your Analog Bag?
aanhpi book recs
spotlighting some incredible books by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors
MEmoir: me lived, me wrote, and me narrated
Memoirs where the audiobook is narrated by the author
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
California Dreamin'
I know there are already several lists with a California theme, but I am hoping this acts as a syllabus of sorts for books that deal with the core myth, history, violence, dream, and contradiction of California. Suggestions are welcome!
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
Service95 Book Club
Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
On grief, grieving, and loss
Ongoing. Fiction and non-fiction exploration of grief: anticipatory, grieving death of a loved one (including pets), loosing pregnancy, etc, and how to live with it.
New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times
grief memoirs 🖤
a list of memoirs that explore the heartache and strangeness of grief.
~asian saddies~
Asian ppl can be edge lords too
Memoirs about Grief
This collection of memoirs all center around grief after losing a loved one and the complex ways it manifests.
Short Books (<300)
100 short books for when you need to break a reading slump or reach a reading goal.
Beautiful Melancholy
For when you want to curl up with a sad story that'll quietly break your heart, but may also remind you how beautiful life can be.
Memoirs
Memoirs not released in 2026
reliving college angst
