Recs if you like King Sorrow...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

A compendium of books featuring dragons

book recs for orange readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

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.

Horror Writers Association’s 2025 Bram Stoker Award nominees for Graphic Novel, First Novel, Long Fiction, and Novel.

Any of your favorites make this list?

Longlist for the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award for 2026. The Glass Bell Award honours novels that combine brilliant characterisation, a distinctive voice, and stories that truly connect with readers. Unique in the UK literary landscape, the prize is open to all genres, from literary fiction and crime to fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction.

Fiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list

Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026

Horror books with blue covers!

These are books by authors who know how to make your spine tingle: some contemporary (The Hollow Places and King Sorrow) and some classic (I Am Legend, The Shining and The Haunting of Hill House).

Dark academia that isn't The Secret History

according to the new york times' november list

Pulled from Reactor Magazine's (Tor.com) announcement. See the article for a list of short stories as well.

Works not in database: We Begin Where Infinity Ends - Somto Ihezue The Tin Man's Ghost - Ray Nayler The Millay Illusion - Sarah Pinsker When He Calls Your Name - Catherynne M. Valente The Twenty-One Second God - Peter Watts Night & Day - ed. Ellen Datlow Starling House - Alix E. Harrow (ILLUSTRATED EDITION, ILLUS. BY ROVINA CAI) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3 (graphic adaptation)

Note: The Revelation Space Collection by Alastair Reynolds is actually for volumes 1 & 2

Cozy or creepy books set in Maine or New England to get you in the mood for a romantic staycation or a ghostly getaway.

Fantasy horror on my tbr

Every pick from Goldsboro's monthly Premier subscription, across all genres. Signed & numbered limited first editions, usually with unique designs.