Recs if you like Keeping 13...

tortured/traumatised MCs where the love interest endeavours to eliminate the root cause of their trauma by any means necessary (some may eventuate in death) ⚔️ protective mode, activated ⚔️

⚠️ CHECK YOUR TRIGGERS

these MCs have trauma they need to work through: parental neglect, absent father, loss of a parent, emotional / physical / psychological ab*se, divorce. this list may be books that you want to read or those that you want to avoid - whichever applies to you, its here nonetheless. bonus points if the MCs partner/s help them work through their trauma.

🚨 please check your triggers 🚨

All books of Fairyloot in 2026. This includes the subscribtions and the shop editions.

Save a shirtless, bare-chested man! Each one is in dire need of a shirt! 👕 Those covers of romance novels are not very warm, although under the covers, it could be hot. Steaming, in fact. Maybe even scorching. 🥵❤️‍🔥

(Other editions exist where the book cover has a shirtless man, but this list only includes those shirtless on PB. ) Enjoy! 😉

Books that have actual numbers numbers in the title (7 instead of seven)

Open to recs 🙌🏼

The heartbreak. The longing. The emotional punches I was not prepared for. These books didn’t just make me tear up; they stayed with me, lingering in that quiet space after the final chapter. Soft souls, proceed carefully.

If you wanna cry, scream and throw up. You’re in the right place.

so he’s hot AND wears a jersey???

screaming crying throwing up level tears

romance novels with healthy relationships, without any drama or misunderstandings between the characters (or the drama has a good reason and is resolved organically.)

but here there CAN be character sadness, traumatic experiences, and so on. It's just that in these books the characters try to survive all the problems together.

contains clean and NOT clean books

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My personal fav books. All have little or no spice BTW.

Books to make you cry your heart out and still rate 5 stars. (Some are part of a series btw)

A list of all the books I've read and loved and 'sometimes' (most of the times 🙊) reread! It'd be books I'll forever recommend 💞

truly accessed my emotions these ones

Inspired (or Incensed, you decide which) by the Guardian's Top 100 Novels of all Time, my bookclub decided to do our OWN top 100 list! Collected via a Google Form, each member submitted their top 10 books of all-time. We didn't limit to just fiction, and did accept entire series as "one book" — because honestly, picking is hard! As I can't order these by vote count, this is just all of them with no particular order whatsoever. Who knows, maybe we'll do this again sometime — enjoy!