Recs if you like Across the Green Grass Fields...

Fantasy where plants, herbs, forests and green places aren’t just set dressing: they drive character choices, magic systems and plot. Expect hedgewitches and apothecaries, sentient woods and green men, tea alchemists, orchard bargains and kitchen gardens that meddle in human affairs. The tone ranges from cozy cottagecore to gently thorny fairytales sprinkled in. If you crave stories that smell like rain on soil and sound like wind in leaves, start here!

Sometimes there are books with terrible intersex rep (as reported by the intersex community) so I have tried to keep those books off this list. Please let me know if you have recs (or anti-recs) in the comments.

Novellas, shorter books, and stories that are a decent bite of literature and a full meal despite being compact. Like a burrito on a commute to work. AKA my full novella master list.

Somebody asked for a list based on the recs folks gave on my pagebound club post, so this is that! (Plus i dumped a bunch of my faves & tbr in)

books with doors (of any kind) that open to unexpected places

What it says on the tin. I've heard truly excellent things about all of these, so maybe give them a try if you haven't yet?

for everyone who spent saturdays at the barn.

a mix of classics and newer books, fiction and nonfiction, all featuring horses.

Each year, for Chinese New Year, we do a rec list with books aligned to the Chinese zodiac animal for the year. Most of these books are queer, though often it's subtextual. We've done 3 lists so far: 2024, dragons; 2025, snakes; 2026, horses. Find all the recs for these lists here! (This list is presented by Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher focused on publishing queer art and stories by queer creators!)

Because there are so many now and I am very confused every time which one to read next !

Intersex Representation.

Horror (and horror adjacent) books with weird/creepy kids and teenagers

interesting takes on chosen one tropes and/or prophecies

All the Wayward Children books so far