Recs if you like Room...
Unusual Narrators
Books where the narrating character is... different.
Why We Choose the Bear
Stories That Feel Suffocating
Tight spaces. Heavy air. The creeping realization that escape may not be possible. These are stories designed to make you feel trapped.
Recs welcome!
Escape Rooms
A mixture of genres and age levels, but each book has a level of feeling like an escape room
📚 Book to movie adaptations 🎥
Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!
(going to only add the first book in a series)
Irish Books
A collection of books by Irish authors that I've loved or am looking forward to!
Contemporary Irish Female Authors ☘️
Irish Female Writers 🇮🇪 💚
A love letter to female Irish writers.
classic irish literature
classics literature written by irish writers
books involving motherhood
some book recs that involve the complexities of motherhood: the tough and tender, chaotic and beautiful, exhausting and full of purpose.
The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
The New York Times published a list on August 5th, 2026, of the 50 best thrillers published since 2000 as voted on by hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and Bookstagrammers.
Ft in Tiny Bookshop
Stuff featured in Tiny Bookshop. Will add more as I continue to play.
Goodreads The Best Books of the Decade: The 2010’s
The top 100 best books of the 2010’s as voted for by Goodreads members
Top five: 5) The Martian 4) Gone Girl 3) Divergent 2) Mockingjay
- The Fault in Our Stars
Reading on Complex Trauma 🕊️
A mix of memoir, fiction, and psychology exploring the impact of complex trauma - and the ways people survive, create meaning, and heal.
Captivity
Books that feature characters being held captive, imprisoned, kidnapped, etc. If it is a series, only the first book is listed. Some may be captivity adjacent & added via recommendation.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: List
The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
oh to be appalled
Depressing, rage-inducing, a collection of books that thoroughly disgusted me of the events/ the character's thoughts and/ behavior. Sometimes it's important. Sometimes it's just fun. Could be satire, social commentary, or historical!
ps. as always, please do check the TW
Top Rated Books of the 21st Century
Goodreads Published List of Consistently > 4 ⭐️(by year published)
2000: Plain Truth - House of Leaves ‘01: Other Boleyn Girl - Secret Life of Bees ‘02: Fingersmith - Lamb ‘03: Shutter Island - Time Traveler’s Wife ‘04: Shadow of the Wind - Cloud Atlas ‘05: No Country for Old Men - Book Thief ‘06: Sharp Objects - Road ‘07: Terror - Thousand Splendid Suns ‘08: City of Thieves - Hunger Games ‘09: Maze Runner - Cutting for Stone
Ran out of room.. See Comments for full list!
New York Times | 50 Best Thrillers
50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century | NYT List
Sidekicks Tell the Tale
When the point of view character is a sidekick to someone else.
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