Recs if you like The Ballad of Perilous Graves...
Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!
Pagebound User Book Cameos
For when your PB friends share the same name(s) as a book character! (See pinned comment for master list! Please feel free to chime in if you want to be added and/or if you want a different book assigned to you; I didnโt want to step on toes and add people I havenโt really talked to without their permission โค๏ธ also my brain is smooth and I forget book character names all the time lol)
Pagebound Readalongs
I couldnt find a list of these yet, so i made one! You may not be able to collect the badges anymore, but if youโre a completionist like me; here are all the books of the pagebound seasonal readalongs and the special event readalongs!
what IS in a name?
books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)
transmasc (adult)
any genre; main and (important) side characters who are trans I also have lists for transmasc (YA) and transmasc (middle grade). For graphic novels I have a separate list: transmasc (graphic novels).
They are just trans okay
Books with trans characters that are not just about being trans
if the cast of Dropout.tv were a book, theyโd beโฆ
Alternatively, these are books Iโd recommend to each Dropout cast member if given the opportunity to do so! Iโll be including a legend in the comments to clarify which book goes with each person. I know Iโm missing people, so if you have a good suggestion for a book recommendation that goes with someone I havenโt already mentioned, please share!
books that give bardic inspiration
fiction books with a main character or prominent side character that fits the D&D bard class (at least partly). heavy on the harps, lyrics, and song! recs and input welcome!
black authors/characters
books by black authors and/or with black characters
Magic is musical here !
A list of Fantasy books where the magic system is based off of music in some form
Of Blood & Sinners
Books to read if you enjoyed the movie "Sinners", and would like more culturally rich black and poc stories full of (white) things going bump in the night, to the tune of the saxophones growing ever louder.
Survival Fabulation
Love casts a spell; the real monster is oppression. Modern magical realism, urban fantasy, and fabulism: books that use supernatural elements to explore themes of family, desire, history, and society.
Bump in the Night: New Orleans Edition
Tales of supernatural entities and folklore-inspired stories set in the magical city of New Orleans.
You, a stranger in the city where you live
Books that capture the uncanny upside-down of that city you thought you knew so well.
Spooky Scary Skeletons
Books with skeletons on the cover.
allergy season ๐คง
books so riveting and world build so immersive you wonโt even have time to scratch your eyes into oblivion under construction- recommendations welcome!!
2022 Queer Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy
All the queer SFF that was trad published in 2022, according to the list made by K.A. Doore [ https://kadoore.com/2022/05/23/2022-queer-adult-science-fiction-fantasy-books/ ]
Books & songs and books & poems
Books which have songs/poems in them (including musical notes in the context of playing music)!
this includes books with short or long segments of songs/poems as long as it's not the main content of the book!
Suggestions are welcome, focused on fiction!
Yes baby, tell me more about your niche interest
Books where one (or more) of the main characters has an interest they cultivated into a career or major part of their lives. Suggestions welcome!
Reality, What Reality?
beautifully disorienting books, often a little trippy, probably have some kind of layering of worlds/times/planes of existence (feel free to comment recs!)
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