Recs if you like Whichwood...

All things written by Tahereh Mafi. Tahereh is an Iranian-American Author, best known for her YA dystopian series Shatter Me. She has many great books both in YA and middle grade that also spread across multiple genres.

She is also a mom to her young daughter with husband Ransom Riggs, another fellow author.

Fiction and non-

Where the setting is cooler than the main character.

every month, são paulo's public library creates a 10 book list based on a different country, here are the books of 2026 (january = france, february = england, march = italy, april = south korea, may = portugal, june = russia, july = usa, august = nigeria)