Listening Is Reading
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.






indigenous horror books
horror books written by indigenous authors






no stephen king in sight
are you sick of being recommended stephen king when you ask for a horror novel? have you picked up a book expected to be scared, but the scariest thing about it was a woman being needlessly tormented and gaslit? have you read 4627473 books about a man in a haunted house and need something different?
if so, this list is for you :)
a masterlist of horror by anyone who isn't a straight cis white man, started in 2022 and brought to pb in 2026.






Barack Obama's favorite books
All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.






veggie vamps ๐ฅฆ
vampires who try to ethically source blood, to varying degrees of success






Indigenous fiction
Credits to @Literary.leveret for some of the books on here






Circular storytelling
"The end is already written. Your actions are up to you, you can choose to get off this ride whenever. We both know you won't do it." Books with this vibe






Indigenous Peopleโs of the World Lit
Literature featuring indigenous authors from the Americas and Pacific. Fiction from across all genres by First Nations of Canada and the US, Mฤori, Aboriginal Australian, Samoan, Hawaiian, Papua New Guinean and other Pacific Island indigenous peoples. Any and all recommendations are more than welcome! Thank you ๐






Weird West
Westerns mixed with horror, sci-fi, and/or fantasy






books with vampires of color โ๐ฟ
no vampire emoji because apple made them weird and gray. all genres. pls leave books to add in comments <3






Extreme horror cozy corner
This is a collection of recommendations for people who want to get into extreme horror/splatterpunk without feeling pressured. Have fun, stay safe, and remain scary!!






Books to Decolonize your Mindset
Fiction and Non-Fiction books that challenge colonial frameworks either through storytelling and/or through information. These books are books that have had an impact on me - but open to suggestions to build this out further!






Historical Horror Fantasy
Historical horror fantasy because I like to be self-indulgent :) Feel free to recommend some!






NPRโs Books We Love 2025
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 childrenโs literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPRโs website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.






Nebula Award Winners - Best Novel
A list of all the novels which won the Best Novel category of the Nebula Awards. To be nominated for this award a story must be 40,000 words or more and published in English in the US and it must be either a science fiction or fantasy story. This list should be in descending order (most recent winners first while earlier winners are further down.






Native American & Indigenous American Storytelling
Here are some books by Native & Indigenous American authors - from fiction to memoir to historical retellings.






vampires who cry blood๐ฉธ
everyone also squeals in delight whenever this shows up in a book, right? no? just me then?






stories within stories within stories
this is a collection of books that contain more stories within their stories, almost like an endless corridor of doors that lead to more doors or an infinite matryoshka doll
(always open to suggestions!!)