Recs if you like The Garden...
Sister Sister
Fiction featuring sisters, because sisters are the best. (Note that not all sister relationships are easy, they are complex and layered and sometimes difficult.)
Please leave your additions in the comments!
NPR’s Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.
isolation
who do you become when you’re cut off from the rest of the world?
books in which a person or group of people are physically isolated and have to contend with who they really are.
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Older Protagonist
Books where the protagonist is around or older than 50
near future
speculative and climate fiction about where we’re going
FOR SALE
One book for every room of the house.
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