Recs if you like Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm, #1)...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

Reading suggestions for the Trans Rights Readathon! (Any year of course). Books with trans characters of any label (or any non-cis gender identity) by trans/non-cis authors. I have not read all the books in this list. Feel free to name your fave books by trans authors in the comments!

YA fantasy novels written by Black authors featuring magic-wielding Black main characters. Suggestions welcome!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

Charis Loke is a Malaysian illustrator who creates maps and various art and illustrations for books. Her style mixes ink textures with digital painting.

This list includes all (to the best of my ability to compile) the books that feature her work. Please note that some apply to only select editions of books (The Broken Binding etc.)

List idea stolen shamelessly from @kenznais.

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

A list of winners of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It has been awarded each year since 1975 by the World Fantasy Convention for fantasy or horror novels (defined as works of 40,000 words or more) published in English.

Only one rule: there is a snake on the cover. It doesn’t have to be a specific genre, it doesn’t have to be a specific age group, it doesn’t even need to be a good book.

Bonus points if it’s the original book snake!