Recs if you like The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales...

Going back to the Dark Ages with all the horror and death they experienced. A comprehensive list including popular selections along with lesser known works to evoke the Olde Age scares.

(I try to update this list all any time I run across new ones!)

Books featuring magical apples or apple orchards

🎶 Come, little children, I take thee away / into the land of enchantment 🎶 that nostalgic feeling when you were a child and you could see glimpses of a new fantastical world of magic and wonders basically a collection of stories where children and teens discover a new world with hidden dark undertones which also includes BIPOC/LGBTQ+ representation

If you grew up in Germany there is a high chance some of these books accompanied you in your childhood.

This is a list of typical German children's books.

Suggestions welcome!

a non-exhaustive collection of works

Classic novels for your (inner) child, with some modern staples in the mix. For reading yourself, reading aloud to little ones, and for those learning to read. Suggestions welcome, as always!

A list of vibey winter setting period fiction to read in December, across all genres. From the Classic winter ghost story to Victorian crime fiction to winter castle Gothic romances, this is the ultinate list of snow-covered gas lamps, cups of hot cocoa, sweeping Yule ballgown skirts and flowery language. Make sure to comment your Recs!

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Books which have been spoofed / had characters in them played by the Muppets, in movies or TV. (Yes, I have counted movie book adaptation spoofs). (No, I have no regrets).

I~we come to know the language of good: Toki Pona, a conlang composed of only ~140 words! Toki Pona was inspired by Taoist philosophy & pidgin languages and is designed to help speakers focus on the essentials by expressing maximal meaning with minimal complexity.

This list contains official instructional books for learning how to speak Toki Pona, original stories written for beginner tokiponists, and a number of books that have been translated into Toki Pona.

Resources in comments: 🚧👷

Forests, Fantasy and Foes - oh my! This is the ultimate list of shortform horror you would not read nowadays to your kid, of modern day novels with fairytale vibes, AND of literary classics that ingulge in innocent heroines, triple tasks and a bit o' incest. Get all your red painted roses, deep dark woodland paths, gingerbread cannibals houses, feminine rage and sentient objects right here. Don't forget to leave your reccs in the comments!

i love this story to death, so here’s a wip list about it. taking suggestions.

brothers grimm and other fairytale retellings, fatalism, themes of freedom and choice, teen-young adult audience, fantasy modernism, etc.

works that are referenced in (or remind me of) dave malloy’s excellent musical ghost quartet

“i’m a little confused and more than a little frightened.” “it’s okay my dear, this is a circular story.”

Books full of wonder that cultivate joy and imagination and whimsy

popular, semi popular or once popular german language lit that I find interesting. also, schiller >>> goethe, so no faust 😊

Cozy fantasy, reg fantasy, Romantasy and LitRPG books

Our TransOceanicBookClub reading list for 2026 💙