Recs if you like Grendel...

Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story

book recs for purple readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

A list of Banned or Censored books (from around the world) that I want to read and form my own opinions about...

For all those recovering anglophiles that aren’t trying very hard to recover. Suggestions super welcome :)

Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.

Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do! Subject to changes since I’m fickle. All 150 books plus the 2 bonus! I’m probably crazy for trying 🫠 I have repeated authors mostly because I’m trying to use books I already own. I’m not sure if that’s taboo or not…

Fiction and nonfiction books about or inspired by medieval Europe.

An intentional curation of books whose characters are navigating through the affliction of loneliness. Reading varied perspectives on this theme shows how loneliness can alter lives and the different ways in which people respond to it, endure it, and search for ways to escape (or even give in) to it.

Looking for truths about goodness, innocence, and the divine through destruction, canibalism, blood-sucking, that sort of stuff.

Classic novels! Find a new fave with this list.

There is a magic older than fire. These are the dragons who have lived so long they have become the landscape, or so wise they have forgotten what it is to be a beast. They are philosophers of the abyss, weavers of the world-mist, and creatures of pure mathematics and dream. To hear them speak is to risk your mind. We call them... the Ancient Minds