Recs if you like The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...
Literature of the Global South
Writing and voices from outside of the white Western canon. Fiction and Non-fiction with an emphasis in diaspora, decolonization, global history, and resistance narratives from around the world. Features African, Asian, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern voices.
Began with many recommendations from Jamin Anderson (@jaminanderson__ on Instagram) and has expanded with the help of the Pagebound community.
what IS in a name?
books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)
Fluent in Spanglish // Hablo espanglรฉs
Books that use the language itself as a narrative and literary device, switching from English to Spanish and back again in a variety of ways, from light sprinklings for flavor and atmosphere to requiring the reader to be functionally bilingual to fully understand. Suggestions always welcome!
Bitches Love a Footnote
Itโs me. Iโm bitches โ๐ป
Collection of fiction texts that utilize footnotes for various reasons, including world building, comedic narrative input, or character perspective
NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Timesโ100 books that defined the 21st century.
books for purple readers
book recs for purple readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically
a plague oโ both your houses!
texts about generational curses within families, featuring a touch of strangeness/surrealism/wonder/magical realism.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
(Most) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1918!
NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
Immigrant Experience
Graphic Design Diarrhea-Free Covers
Do you, like me, often find yourself looking at a book cover thinking, "Y'all are doing waaay too much." Why are book covers so dang extra nowadays? Here are some books that appeal to me simply because they have covers that don't look like a 19 year old with Photoshop barfed a bunch of design elements on a book and called it a day. Some I've read, some are on the TBR. And to all the authors and publishers out there, K.I.S.S.
HRCYED 3.0 Helper - 7 Word Titles
Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 7 Word Titles Prompt You must find TEN titles total with the total number words in the title going from one all the way through ten. I'll break these lists down into the total number of words in the title to make planning easier. This is an on going list and always open for recommendations
NYTโs The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book loversโwith a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer winners
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
Rasฤฑst, homopแธฅoสปbic, prob, prษdatยบry authors
I'm making a list of authors, the problematic information is very public and easy to find. This list is to inform anyone that doesn't know. The authors are horrible people and I never separated the art from the artist!
Never-ending list that just keeps on growing
I want to read more diversely - classics edition
15 Classics That Prove the Canon Is Bigger Than You Think
15 Classics That Aren't by Dead White European Men โ And Are Just as Essential
From this substack post : https://open.substack.com/pub/literaryfancy/p/the-i-want-to-read-more-diversely
latinx writing beyond the latinx experience
sometimes I wanna read a book by a latinx author who writes romance, fantasy, historical fiction, etc. NOT because I DONโT wanna read about their experience, but because I believe they are so much more than that!
*** still working on this!
NYT Readers' Choice Best Books of the 21st Century
How many have you read?
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