Recs if you like She Who Remains...

books that feel:

claustrophobic like the summer heat like stifling longing flushed cheeks like unbidden realisations melancholically sweet like painful emptiness existential like utter confusion

I haven’t read all book on this list (yet). Feedback regarding books/authors is welcome🫶🏻 PLS CHECK TW

musical inspiration: fourth of july - Sufjan Stevens Habibi - Tamino implosion - Labrinth now, run - Hania Rani ozean - AnnenMayKantereit

sapphic books that i don't see people talk about that often and that deserve more attention!! most of these books have 1000, oftentimes under 500 ratings

A selection of books by queer authors and/or containing queer themes not originally written in English but since translated. Suggestions very welcome!

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

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! ✰

Long list for International booker prize 2026

Books with unreliable narrators, dark themes and the gothic sense of dread and ruin, set in the Balkans

The shortlist of six books was chosen by the 2026 judging panel

the longlist for the international booker prize

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

Queer books from around the world.

Reading queers from all around the world!

longlists of every year from 2016 onwards

13 books translated from 11 languages, by authors and translators representing 14 nationalities

Longlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, featuring stories of witchcraft, warfare, trauma, transformation and more

Fiction books set in Albania

Open to recs!

on a mission to read books by authors from all around the globe