Remember to breathe, damnit!
Books where someone, at some point, lets out a breath they didn’t know they were holding. I fully intend to update this every time I come across this line, but let me know which ones are missing in the comments!






✨Books are cheaper than therapy✨
Romantasy books to read to escape reality that AREN’T ACOTAR and Fourth Wing.






We found love in a hopeless place
Dystopian matchmaking: romance and love stories that happen against all odds






🚂Next in Series Hype Train🚃💨
Get on the hype train for these upcoming releases of books in a series. Now is the perfect time to jump on board a new series or start a re-read.
Covers the next 12 months. Updates once a month - please send recs
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I will list the first book in the series and the upcoming book. I'm not including series from romances where it's hard to tell if the books are standalone or not (for my health🙃).
(I'm already questioning my sanity on how I'm going to maintain this, I wish we could make collaborative lists on here 😭)




var-eye-ety is the spice of life
books with characters with different colored eyes (heterochromia in most but not all cases) suggestions welcome!!






New wave Dystopian Romance
Since I loved YA dystopian in the 2010s, I wanted to gather all the 2020s books coming out in this new trend of romantic dystopia (recommendations welcome!)






dystopian & dystopian fantasy
"an imagined world or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. many of the people lead dehumanized and fearful lives"






page turners for reading slumps
mostly thrillers, all books i stayed up way too late to read. these aren’t necessarily literature, just books that hook.






The Odds Are Bad but the Chemistry Isn’t
Dystopia romance recs because the dystopia era deserves a comeback






Under His Eye
Dystopian novels






because good books have a rebellion
viva la revolucion. all books/series that deserve the hype.






he basically kidnaps her
some of these are arranged marriages but if my girl has no agency, that’s a kidnapping for sure






ain’t no way these kids are getting together
because forbidden romance = yearning.






Romance After The World Ends
Dystopian/Post Apocalyptic Romance






love triangles i can stomach
the point of a love triangle should be so little miss can decide who she wants to be, not who she wants to be with.
i put the first if it’s a series, though the love triangle might not be in that book.






romantic fantasy that had me reading past 3am
sometimes there are books that just hook you and even if they’re not well written or plotted or whatever you just have to sacrifice your sleep to know how they end. like i genuinely felt like i would not be okay if these kids didn’t end up together.






fantasy? yes. feminist? also yes.
my definition of feminist, as it pertains to this list, would be, “it just FEELS pro-women.”






Fantasy romance that doesn’t suck
good tension much yearn






because fantasy is a WOMAN’S game
series + standalones that i personally vouch for, all written by women






it’s not a phase mom, it’s dystopian
maybe its not the end of the world, maybe it is! this list is a mix of YA and NA dystopian books with varying degrees of romance. for series, just including book 1





