Recs if you like Beasts of Carnaval...
Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!
SCP Containment Breach
The SCP is an organization that Secures, Contains, and Protects our world against anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Be advised: these books contain such SCPs that have escaped confinement and have caused havoc and destruction. Read at your own peril. And remember to document your findings.
Post-colonial Fever Dreams
tangled narratives and re-formed genres sprouting from the toxic ground of colonialism
Historical Horror Fantasy
Historical horror fantasy because I like to be self-indulgent :) Feel free to recommend some!
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.
Indigenous Authors in Sci-Fi & Fantasy 💫
An ever growing list of sci-fi, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical realism written by authors indigenous to (the entire continent of) America. Recommendations are always welcome! 🌟
BIPOC fantasy!!
We have a lot of requests in our library for these, so I figured I would provide the page bound community with our list!
Nature Strikes Back: Decolonization and Ecohorror
Books where nature itself fights back against colonization, or has themes of resistance, conservation and indigenous identity. Full disclosure, I haven't read most of these but the topic interests me, and I didn't see a list for it. I will take recommendations in the comments!
Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.
Just a collection of books from across the genre spectrum featuring eye-catching flowers on the covers. Suggestions welcome!
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Puerto Rican and Hispanic Storytellers A little bit of the homeland
The Alternate Cute-munity Book List
The books that were considered for @littleleggies book club. Please check books for content warnings, as many have significant triggers.
Puerto Rican Fiction
All kinds of fiction stories written by Boricua authors
to slay a giant
stories against empire that feel especially relevant right now
Latin X Fantasy books
Fantasy recs featuring LatinX authors or characters
Latin Authors
A mix of genres thru Latin povs.
July 2025 Releases
New & exciting books releasing in July 2025! Indie & trad
