Recs if you like How to Say Babylon...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

For all the multitaskers on here (including myself): books featured on 2+ quests! Go get those badges everyone

Writing and voices from outside of the white Western canon. Fiction and Non-fiction with an emphasis in diaspora, decolonization, global history, and resistance narratives from around the world. Features African, Asian, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern voices.

Began with many recommendations from Jamin Anderson (@jaminanderson__ on Instagram) and has expanded with the help of the Pagebound community.

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

this is your reminder to read books by Black authors all month, all year, every year— not just during Black History Month. it’s crucially important to be able to diversify your reading and your bookshelves. expand your mind, your perspectives, your knowledge, and your taste. if you don’t know where to start, here are some recommendations!

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

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!

A collection of titles that all start with "how to" that aren't actually how-to guides...suggestions welcome!

Memoirs where the audiobook is narrated by the author

Biographies, memoirs, and other non-fiction books on Black women. Perfect for Black History Month, Women's History Month, or any old day!

A few lovely books written by Black women spanning every genre!

Memoirs from authors who can write like nobody's business, especially poets, novelists, and journalists. Unique life experiences told through incredible prose.

edit: made gender/species neutral, inspired by the ogbanje Akwaeke Emezi

a list of books that catapult you right into a different historical & cultural context and part of the world because of how vivid the writing is.

per a request after I posted a forum!

under construction

Fiction & nonfiction books that explore the complexities and traumas of father-child relationships or in which such relationships play a central role. Not all books on this list include “daddy issues” — these books can be about the different perspectives and nuances of the father-child relationship, whether positive or negative. Some books center the child, some the father, some both.

Suggestions are welcome.

For those of you who subscribe to newlynova on either YouTube or TikTok, I have compiled a list of books that she has mentioned in her videos