Recs if you like A Letter to the Luminous Deep ...

Romance novels and stories with substantial romantic subplots where at least one lead is explicitly neurodivergent. Every title is either own voices, has a character whose neurodivergence is confirmed within the text or by the author. This collection celebrates love across the full spectrum of neurological diversity, including Autism, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's, Hoarding Disorder, PTSD, and more. Recommendations are always welcome!

When the love story and the world building go hand in claw. For series, only the first book is listed.

Many of these are the beginning of series, but all of them are about academics in fantasy settings. All cross genres are welcome.

Duologies. Duologies! A list full of duologies. This has a collection of titles I'm interested in and some recommended to me. To save you the trouble, I made sure to put both books in a duology in this list. Enjoy! 💐

Fictional books that have characters with OCD or OCD- like symptoms. Many recommended by the Pagebound community! As always, this is not intended to be taken as advice or medical help 💜

books set in drowned or drowning worlds

why shouldn’t we be able to imagine disabled people in space, in love, solving mysteries, or on the lam?

genre fiction (SFF, romance, mystery, thriller, etc.) with disabled characters or themes, written by disabled authors.

Sci fi, fantasy, and science fantasy books featuring protagonists who are dealing with mental health issues, and/or are neurodiverse in some way - maybe on the autism spectrum, or having ADHD, schizophrenia, OCD, synesthesia, bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, etc. Suggestions very welcome!

A collection of fantasy books featuring elements of light academia.

books with doors (of any kind) that open to unexpected places

Dark Academia's lighter and cozier counterpart. Mostly fantasy and nature books.

true dark academia that ranges from fantastical/supernatural to psychological literary fiction

This is a list of books representing every pokemon in HeartGold and SoulSilver (So Johto+Kanto regions). For my sanity, this is one book per evo line. The list with match-ups is in the comments✊🏻💚

Novels that feature magical correspondence, the magical people who write them, the magical post offices that deliver them, and everything in between.

These are books about dms/emails or books told largely in dm/email/letter format. Recommendations welcomed.

Epistolary delivery: Books told in the form of letters, journals, diaries, texts, logs, etc...

This list features books with nontraditional forms, structures, and narratives.

Feel free to recommend more! :)

books so riveting and world build so immersive you won’t even have time to scratch your eyes into oblivion under construction- recommendations welcome!!

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