Recs if you like Yesteryear...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

a collection of autistic coded characters in fiction [ recommendations welcome! ]

what does it mean to be perfect when perfect cannot exist?

books with commentary about the wellness and beauty industries, social media, and self care.

You loved Patrick Bateman. You wanted to be Jay Gatsby. You know all the rules about Fight Club. Well, do I have the list for you! Um, actually... is a list of books where the whole point went over people's heads. These novels handed readers a mirror and they wore it as a name badge instead. Always taking recommendations! (p.s. I am begging you to watch Um, Actually on Dropout TV... um, actually please watch anything/everything on Dropout TV)

Fiction & nonfiction books that explore the complexities and traumas of mother-child relationships or in which such relationships play a central role. While many books on this list are what I’d classify as including “mommy issues” there are others that are more about the different perspectives and nuances of the mother-child (often specifically mother-daughter) relationship. Some books center the child, some the mother, some both.

Suggestions are welcome.

Mikayla tried to warn us! Being an influencer IS hard! You have to work until 5:19 some days, open hundreds of PR packages, AND actually have to film those lucrative sponsorship videos but in these books, it's not just the influencer comment sections that become a blood bath! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and suggest more influencer horror/thrillers in honor of the hardest working people around! Use my promo code SOUL20 for 20% off your next demonic pact! #DevilPartner #Ad #BlessedAndPossessed

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

| 2026 | sunrise on the reaping: november 20 pride & prejudice: december 3 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the magician's nephew: february 12 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

Novels for when you want to explore religious trauma and the impacts of religion through fiction. For nonfic, see my list “From saint to sinner: religious deconstruction”

Suggestions are welcome!

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!

Here (and there and then) be time travelers!

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 💕

books with unhinged narrators that feel impossible to put down

Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic

Hii, everyone ♡ I am a very big fan of the booktuber @caricanread so I thought I would make a list of all the books she has read this year! ✰

Sourdough bread, ranches and farmhouses, a hoard of children, a picture-perfect life, right? Exploring the horrors of tradwives.

Social commentary under patriarchy

All the 2026 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles