Recs if you like Heavy...
Not like other title text!
Book covers with typography oriented in non-standard alignments, instead of the typical horizontal + left to right text alignment. Or: graphic design is my passion, and today we are learning about text paths 🙂↕️. This is an immensely silly List, and always open to suggestions—vertical text, circular, upside down, anything goes!
allow me to introduce myself
a collection of memoirs by individuals who have lived with and survived (and continue to survive) debilitating mental illnesses. these are their stories.
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!
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)
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
Body liberation
Body liberation, fat positive, anti-diet culture.
List created because I was surprised this didn’t already exist (and if it does please let me know!). Update: @violet.booklover has a beautiful list with even more suggestions!
Trigger warnings: bodies can be a triggering topic. All the books here aim to be anti-diet, and size affirming, but please approach with caution.
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
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
traveling library
every month, são paulo's public library creates a 10 book list based on a different country, here are the books of 2026 (january = france, february = england, march = italy, april = south korea, may = portugal, june = russia, july = usa, august = nigeria)
NYT top 100 Books of the 21st century
A goal to read the 100 books rated in the 21st century (so far) as published by the New York times in 2024, list in order from 100-1 but you can find the original list on the NYT website.
