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An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.

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Fictional stories. Real consequences. Profit > People is dedicated to books with capitalist critique, focusing on the lives - and bodies - sacrificed at the altar of industry and interest. Always taking recommendations!

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

in which nothing happens or a lot happens, but sometimes it feels like nothing at all.

also known as: lit fic that feels like a dream or a nightmare or a hallucination.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

“Nothing here is fake.” — The Truman Show

across both dystopian and realist worlds, these books centre depictions of reality tv in facilitating discussions around surveillance, capitalism, exploitation, and how both global and local suffering is sensationalised.

what it says on the tin! i love a good fantasy book but sometimes you want something a little more grounded in reality. please leave recs

novels that feature a reality show, and in exploring the behind-the-scenes, expose how scripted “reality” can be…

suggestions welcome.

HEAR ME OUT. These books at one point gave me ALL the emotions of a blue shell targeting me while I'm in first place!

no like….. literally

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

A highly unscientific list of Fantasy and Sci-fi books where the audiobook leveled up the reading experience. I’ve either listened to them or they’ve come highly recommended. Input always welcome!

dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

Books that have online communities, traditional lifestyles, unlikeable characters and everything that can go wrong when you mash them up together.

All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles