Recs if you like Cursed Daughters...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

horror fiction from Black authors featuring Black characters

weird girl books with a Black woman protagonist! recommendations very welcome, hoping to spotlight some lesser known titles!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

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.

Fictional stories about families spanning across multiple generations. Books that focus on the life of a matriarch or patriarch (roots) and continue along their blood lines (branches) in an epic tale. Please feel free to recommend any fictional stories that fit within this description.

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

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 💕

stories about the things we carry through the generations of a family.

as always welcome to suggestions !

an engaging collection that captures the depth and diversity of African storytelling, blending tradition, history, and modern life through powerful voices.

texts about generational curses within families, featuring a touch of strangeness/surrealism/wonder/magical realism.

For people who want to dip toes in Nigerian literature.

A few lovely books written by Black women spanning every genre!

Multigenerational family/chosen family narratives! Books with multiple POVs from different generations within communities.

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.

if you’re craving something that feels like the next martha’s vineyard (iykyk)! books that evoke the same feeling as the magnificent tv show ‘widows bay’

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

A gallery of books selected on covers that belong in a museum. Most of these are from actual paintings. Different types of art selected. The books listed below are just my opinion. Recommendations are welcome

A place to see all books included in The Audacious Book Club run by Roxane Gay.

I’m not affiliated at all. I just enjoy these recommendations and wanted one place to see them all here on Pagebound.

Check out audacity.substack.com for more info! They do book discussions for the current month.