Recs if you like The Writing Retreat...

All the lesbians books I can find. If you have any book you want me to add please comment ❤️

stuck on an island, snowed in, on a boat, aboard a moving train... this list is crime fiction -mostly murder mysteries- in which the characters are stuck in an isolated location and cut off from the outside.

disclaimer: i haven't read all of these so lmk if a book doesn't fit, and feel free to leave suggestions in the comments!

Creepy books made better because there are queer characters

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

... You're trapped here with me! The format: A group of people (could be strangers, or long-lost friends) are gathered or trapped in an isolated place together. Maybe it's a remote island. Maybe a cozy cabin during a blizzard. Someone is killed. The killer is obviously among them, but who?! Submissions welcome because this is my favourite mystery sub-genre at the moment, and I can't wait to discover more!

Exactly what it says on the tin: queer stories that also have ghosts.

Horrors and thrillers set in winter (21st December to 20th March, but I will count earlier December as winter too to make things easier) or in a really cold place that reminds of wintertime.

The list will contain both more known books that you've probably already been recommended and some that I've seen have had less attention, at least over here. I have not read them all, but I want to complete this list myself too during the next Christmasses.

Books that explore women's hunger (as a theme/with appetite as a key aspect of the book), whether it's ambition, power, sexual/emotional hunger, longing for a voice/community, or literal physical hunger. #girldinner

books who have the same style of covers; featuring bright hot or neon pink🩷 with neon yellow💛!

sadly, the default pagebound editions might not be the correct ones so you’ll have to look through the available editions. pagebound please let us choose</3

open to recs!

because what is a house if not the first hauntings we experience?

books in which the cover has lime green font

(weirdly lots of horror?)

All the books chosen by Booksandlala for the Literally Dead Book club.

Books about books. Books about authors/writers. Books about readers…but not like Annie Wilkes from Misery. Just non-psychotic readers. This list doesn’t include libraries or bookstores, because those are totally different types of pizza.

Gabs 2024 reads in her ranking video. Hope you'll find something you'll like!

Wintery Weather Thrillers! Suspense for a Snowy Day!

True thrillers that you can't put down and keep you heart racing.

I asked Pagebound for books with a book inside the book. The following list is made up out of those recommendations. In some of them the MC is writing or reading a book that you also get to read, in others it is short stories or oral histories. In all of them, you get more then just one story. I have not read all of these books. I am open to more recommendations.

NB The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz is often referenced is his other works and only later was actually written.

a collection of wild witchy* sapphics (even if just for a brief moment) vibing in fiction

*witchcraft loosely interpreted as feminine badassery, subversions + explorations of power, and/or supernatural elements, including but not limited to: divination, hauntings, possession, vampirism, shapeshifting, necromancy, dragon riding, psychedelic use, poetry, creative writing, etc

always open to recommendations for moooorrree 🤩