Recs if you like Confessions...

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

thrillers based in academic settings/college campuses ! recs super welcomed

🚧 under construction 🚧

Mystery Thriller titles that were originally in Japanese but have been translated into English.

"Weird girl literature" with different flavours of horror elements

💜 yarnandbooks

All the books chosen by Booksandlala for the Literally Dead Book club.

Ethical murder solving from your couch without joining your local police department.

A list to help those who aspire to read from authors outside the typical areas. I will be creating different list for different regions. I will also list the countries currently found in the list. Be sure to check out the other lists! Note: The countries are not perfect as some countries are classified differently, so I did my best.

Current Countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan

stories with lots of twists and turns, including (but not limited to) murder mysteries

basically just a collection of thriller, mystery and horror novels involving characters and/or authors of colour 🤍 suggestions are always welcome!

Fiction books set in Japan

Open to recs!

A mix of the horrors of parenthood AND parents (particularly mothers) doing absolutely everything to protect their kids.

Motherhood and pregnancy horror . Suggestions are welcomed

Winners and nominees of the Japan Booksellers’ Award (Honya Taisho) translated into English

*Not listed in year or sequence

Books with a very satisfying or wholly unexpected plot twist (or even better, more than one), even if it made you cry, angry, feel creeped out, or cause you to throw your book across the room. Recommendations welcome!

Past and present winners and nominees of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Frightful reading!

books with characters/storylines that go against societal norms (check cws/tws)