Recs if you like Birnam Wood...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

Fictional stories. Real consequences. Profit > People is dedicated to books with capitalist critique, focusing on the lives - and bodies - sacrificed at the altar of industry and interest. Always taking recommendations!

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.

a compiled list of all the "underrated" or otherwise overlooked books from the various cultures of our very own pagebound community, inspired by all of your wonderful recommendations!

i'm always open to further suggestions from your own culture if you have any books you think deserve a further spotlight or you don't see them mentioned here.

Haere Mai, welcome! Here you will find a non-exhaustive list of modern literature that evokes the feeling of what it is like to live in Aotearoa New Zealand today.

All books here are written by New Zealanders and set in modern time New Zealand (or a fictionalised version of).

Very open to recommendations!

Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.

Celebrating Canadian authors, with an emphasis on fiction. I'm also trying to include a lot of Indigenous authors in this list! Open to suggestions.

books which titles are direct quotes from Shakespeare (alas The Fault in Our Stars would not count)

open to suggestions!

Fiction that deals with climate change. Books may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.

I've been noticing that I reach for a lot of books that are kinda sci-fi-y and center around climate change. Some are more for sure sci-fi and some are more literary/between genres

The books in this collection are all inspired by Shakespeare's plays, comedies, tragedies, and histories.

A collection of fiction containing strong environmental themes, whether that be conservation and sustainability, natural exploration, or the oncoming climate apocalypse. Finish these books then go touch some grass! (Or better yet, read them outside!)

Books set in, by, or adapted in NZ

NZ books are underrated! I’d love to share our culture with the world ✨

Books to make you fear the future

Books set in Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Open to recs!

Fiction books with explicit or implied themes of earth, water, air and fire