Recs if you like Where the Crawdads Sing...
feline lit
cats across genres! these books range from books all about cats to books that feature a cat, and all are cat-friendly!
POV: you’re at a thrift store
Books you will find on any given thrift store shelf in the US, for better or worse 😂 For books in a series or by prolific authors, I’ve only included one book so as not to overwhelm the list.
Suggestions welcome!
I think it goes without saying but just in case… I’m not necessarily recommending these books by having them on this list. (In fact I wouldn’t recommend many of these.) This is for fun!
NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
driving down country roads listening to noah kahan
books that feel like you are driving 60 mph down a country road on a late summer day (leaning closer to a crisp fall day) while feeling complicated, nostalgic, and a little messed up inside 🍂🐛
(posting because i am TOOO excited about the release of noah's new album!! additional recs are more than welcome!)
NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
📚 Book to movie adaptations 🎥
Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!
(going to only add the first book in a series)
Mario Kart Blue Shell Adrenaline
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!
Reese’s Book Club - by Reese Witherspoon
Each month Reese Witherspoon picks books she loves with a woman at the center of the story.
Reese's Book Club
reese's complete picks- trying to read as many of these as i can... but we shall see
Popular Fiction of the Decade
Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025
2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers
Women in STEM 👩🏻🔬🧪📐⚙️
This list is full of women who solve problems, break rules, run experiments, ask inconvenient questions, and generally refuse to stay in the lanes they were assigned. Fiction and non-fiction, from romance to history. Welcome to the nerdy, brilliant chaos.
Texas Has No Taste: Banned Books
A small selection of the over 2000+ banned books recently brought to the attention of Texas' Lt. Gov and a conservative organization for their for "vulgar" material 🙄 including topics of history, race, LGBTQ+, gender identity, feminism, mental health, and sex education as well as romance, horror, science fiction, memoirs, YA, and classic genres. Aka my new reading list 💅 **Includes all the books I've read/on my TBR and other popular books, comment others if you want!!
Noah Kahan songs if they were books
(note: i haven't read all yet)
book recs for yellow readers
according to read your color on substack | updated periodically
'Orange' You Glad You Get to Read These Books?
Books with orange covers!
100 Books of Summer
A balance of breezy page-turners with immersive classics and thought-provoking non-fiction.
NYT Readers' Choice Best Books of the 21st Century
How many have you read?
Bogs, Swamps, Fens, Marshes and Moors
Books that take place in, or describe in relative detail, swampy locations 🐸
All genres welcome except study books/guides/purely informational non-fiction.
tending the earth
eco-philosophy, ecology, capitalism and how it relates to climate, etc etc with some fiction thrown in there to spice things up.
Read The States Challenge - North Carolina
This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!
