Recs if you like Shatter Me...

I'm sure some of these are already on your TBR, so might as well add some more! Let me know if I am missing any of your favorites!

Book that have an element you’ll miss out on if you read as an audiobook, whether it’s fun formatting or illustrations

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

[BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE]

Dystopia-core library books you inhaled in middle school on the bus so you could talk about them during lunch period.

Or: books that had an entire generation of kids convinced they were going to develop powers and be taken to a secret government facility

Allow me to set the scene:

It’s 2 AM on a school night but you only have 100 pages left. You will power through. Forget the math test you have first period. This is your priority. And you must know how the book ends.

I don’t know what sort of millennial catnip these 2000s YA authors put in these books, but let me tell you, my “baby millennial” self was addicted.

Pagebound Millennials: what YA were you reading?

A librarian's favorite response to asking what book a patron is looking for...

we love a man who yearns in this house

| 2026 | verity: october 2 sense & sensibility: october 16 sunrise on the reaping: november 20 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

A woman's place is in the revolution. Featuring magical/gifted women who disobey the powers that be and rage against the machine.

Dystopian matchmaking: romance and love stories that happen against all odds

SWANA authors are authors from South West Asia and North Africa. They currently make up <1% of the trad publishing industry. This list is here to introduce you to their stories.

NOTE: if you find an author who doesn’t belong on this list, please comment & I will remove the book(s) ASAP.

As always, lists are forever evolving🥰

Lets give our brothers and sisters who write fiction the platform they deserve ☀️

the staples of the book community on youtube in the early to mid 2010s.

these books look back 👀

always accepting suggestions for books with eyes featured prominently on the cover

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Some of my favorite books by Muslim authors+ books on my tbr! ( I’ll keep adding to the list)

When a power couple overthrows a tyrannical or broken government together.

Bonus points if they don't agree on the right way to do it but through falling in love with each other they learn to appreciate the other person's experiences and it helps them build something even better for their people when they combine ideas sobs

Open to recs !!

For all the shatter me lovers

Get on the hype train for these upcoming releases of books in a series. Now is the perfect time to jump on board a new series or start a re-read.

Covers the next 12 months. Updates once a month - please send recs

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I will list the first book in the series and the upcoming book. I'm not including series from romances where it's hard to tell if the books are standalone or not (for my health🙃).

(I'm already questioning my sanity on how I'm going to maintain this, I wish we could make collaborative lists on here 😭)

Limiting this to fantasy/sci-fi, these are books where the MCs are locked up for most of the book or it's a crucial part of the plot. This can include magical prisons, cursed towers, institutions of sorts, and probably more!