Recs if you like Green Fuse Burning...
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. i've been maintaining it for myself since 2022 and it was time to share the wealth!
an ongoing sapphic masterlist of books (1600+)
in progress
Basically, a huge list of every book I ever heard features sapphic characters.
I have not read all of these, so I cannot be sure of the amount of the time on page of the sapphic characters or of the quality of the books.
Some of these I do not plan to read at all, since they are not my style. If you feel like a book doesn't belong here, let me know.
For my favs / read, check out my other lists & shelves.
Open to suggestions for more titles.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Badge Gremlins
Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.
Indigenous fiction
Credits to @Literary.leveret for some of the books on here
books your pretentious friend has heard of
Really Short Standalone SFF Reads
Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story
Queer BIPOC Speculative Fiction Novellas
Quick reads featuring LGBTQIA+ characters and themes written by BIPOC authors
Mushroomcore: Cozy, Sporror & Fungis
This is a list of Mushroomcore related books! We have everything from horror, to cozy and fantasy/sci-fi. This is the era of Spontasy (Fantasy), Spomance (Romance) and other genres too. Essentially it's time for the mushroom goblins to take over the world
Horror in < 200 pages
Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.
Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.
HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Titles Edition)
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!
Thereโs something not right about this place
Fiction stories about Haunted houses and other locations. Maybe itโs ghosts, maybe itโs cursed, maybe itโs ancient gods or creatures? All kinda of supernatural haunts and creatures attached to homes, objects, or locations.
Feral and Hysterical: Works by Women
List of recommendations included in Sadie Hartmann's Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horrorโs Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women.
Pairs with 50 States, 50 Books by Women list.
let me tell you my story
audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!
Sapphic horror
Horror books featuring sapphic characters and relationships!
Beautiful Horror
A list of horror books with stunning cover art because sometimes we do judge a book by its cover. Obviously this list is subjective but itโs diverse and inclusive.
Ongoing list so please feel free to suggest!
Sapphic Novellas
Novellas (less than 200 pages) featuring sapphic characters and/or romances!
๐๐ผ๐ Sporror Masterlist ๐๐ผ๐
all things fungal horror โค๏ธโ there are a few mushroom and cottagegore lists around, but i wanted to make a comprehensive guide to the genre! suggestions welcome :)
the weather outside is weather
depending on where you live itโs either winter or summer and the weather outside is probably weather, so here is a list of books with weather related titles
taking suggestions!!
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
indie and/or small press horror
*or gothic and generally horror-adjacent. i have not read all of these! some self-published i think as well
