Recs if you like Ink Blood Sister Scribe...

Standalone fantasy books that won't make you invest your life in a dozen installments

I'm sure some of these are already on your TBR, so might as well add some more! Let me know if I am missing any of your favorites!

Maybe the people are magical, maybe the library is. Maybe these aren’t as fictional as they seem.

Recommendations encouraged!

Books with witchy female characters

Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!

Fiction featuring sisters, because sisters are the best. (Note that not all sister relationships are easy, they are complex and layered and sometimes difficult.)

Please leave your additions in the comments!

Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!

Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' fantasy. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)

Creepy books made better because there are queer characters

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!

Perfect for fantasy lovers with not enough hours in the day!

Feel free to mention any I missed in the comments 😊

A collection of sapphic fantasy books that I have seen recommended across tiktok

A collection of stories about women whose obscure knowledge, forbidden studies, forgotten traditions, or relentless curiosity become the thing standing between the world and disaster.

A masterlist of standalone adult fantasy novels (no novellas).

Always looking for recs!

Want to get into fantasy but never read/only read a bit and don't want to read anything too complex? These books and series have light worldbuilding, magic systems, and are overall good introductions to those new to fantasy. The majority of these are more YA due to the nature of entry-level fantasy

fantasical libraries and whimsical bookshops, these books add a magical charm to familiar bookish places

Queer genre fiction set in a world different from our reality, whether set in a different time, a different world, or in a version of our world but with different rules. Perfect for the reader looking for a little escapism in their next queer read 📚✨

All books include main characters that are sapphic. This includes trans and non-binary lesbians

Books with sapphic* MCs who practice fantasy magic or real witchcraft***. Non-fiction books about witchcraft*** written by and/or about sapphic* folks.

*Nonbinary characters included. All women and femmes included.

**Includes practitioners of spiritual mysticism and healing arts who don’t identify as witches.

***Includes spiritual mysticism and healing that are not categorized as witchcraft.

(Please read the title of the list to the tune of Purple Rain 😂) - Books with purple covers!