Recs if you like Ronia, the Robber's Daughter...

JK Rowling is a bigot who uses her platform to hurt transfolks and other marginalized groups (plus she literally just quoted Mein Kampf on the bird site). If you're still supporting her in 2025, don't bother talking to me.

Fantasy titles that have become foundational to the genre and/or that are considered fantasy classics, written by women. Always open to suggestions!

Books that inspired or are similar to Studio Ghibli films

A collection of Swedish classics that have been translated to English, including some more modern classics. First I added classics I'm familiar with myself and then I went down a rabbit hole looking at a couple of lists online and the recently established cultural canon of Sweden. I've made an effort to add diversity where I can but as you can imagine it's quite lacking, especially in works that have been translated to English. I've also excluded poetry for now as that's not my thing.

🎶 Come, little children, I take thee away / into the land of enchantment 🎶 that nostalgic feeling when you were a child and you could see glimpses of a new fantastical world of magic and wonders basically a collection of stories where children and teens discover a new world with hidden dark undertones which also includes BIPOC/LGBTQ+ representation

If you grew up in Germany there is a high chance some of these books accompanied you in your childhood.

This is a list of typical German children's books.

Suggestions welcome!

The BBC’s 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time as published in May 2023.

Books I read as a kid or books my mom read to me, that still just hit right. Mostly typical German/Northern European books