Recs if you like On Beauty...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

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!

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

For pretentious academics, by pretentious academics, against pretentious academics.

from multi-generational tales to sibling sagas!

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

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

according to the New York Times

This is a list of (most) every book mentioned in the video game 'Tiny Bookshop'

The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times

The Women's Prize for Fiction was started in 1996 as a way to highlight exceptional women writers and to balance out the coverage that male writers received. The Women's Prize is awarded every year to the best novel written in English and published in the UK. There is also a Women's Prize for Nonfiction, created in 2023.

All the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Books that have won the Women's Prize for Fiction

whether you love 'em or you hate 'em, here are some great character-driven novels if you like a book with well-developed characters

Winners

Nobel, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Lambda Literary Award, etc. winners

Books set in New England, for when I feel homesick. Making a separate spooky list for of all the Stephen King books lol