Recs if you like The Mad Ship...

I'm quite experienced in the man-hating field. These books made me hate men more than I already did.

A compendium of books featuring dragons

robin hobb reading order

High seas, hidden treasure, questionable life choices, and a lot of dramatic shouting. Dive in if you’re ready for adventure, danger, and a little bit of glorious chaos.

The complete (as of Jan. 2026) Realm of the Elderlings series. Novels only, not short stories.

A list of every GOOD pirate or shipboard book so far

• Must include being on a ship in the water (ie not space pirates tho we love them)
• pirates preferred
• crew preferred (ie not just a romance aboard a ship. Let’s have crew problems and ship conflicts)
• recs welcome (you must think they are good, not just ship related!)
• yes I included some nonfic or interpretive historical fiction in here
• ahoy matey

Katie McGrath recommendations

books themed around, set in, or largely regarding the ocean, fish, and other aquatic things!

Fantasy book club!

The title explains itself.

E.g. Books that center women, particularly women’s friendships, wlw relationships, women’s resistance and survival in the patriarchy, women of color, queer womanhood and queer women, sisterhood and sisters, white women who reckon with their privilege, and women’s power and strength and fortitude. These books usually don’t cover all the topics at once, this is just the range at which the list includes.

Trilogies that all have an average 4 or more star ratings and at least 100 points of engagement (reviews & posts) in Pagebound across all three books. This list is collected from first books in series from the Master Fantasy and Romantasy List by readandtellstories. For those times when I need highly rated epics. I have not read all of these books. Please let me know if any should be added.

LitJoy Readers’ Top Books of 2026

For those characters you wanna punch so hard that they enter our world and get isekai-ed as the villain destined for death in the next world.

Must be well written. Must be characters that you’re MEANT to hate, not heroes youre pissed off at for being dumbasses. Must make you want to turn pages until they get what they deserve (or in Malta’s case, when they get the greatest character development short of Prince Zuko).