Fantasy books you can read instead of Harry Potter
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.






an ongoing lesbian / sapphic masterlist (2300+)
Basically, a huge list of books from all genres featuring sapphic characters, whether bisexual, lesbian, butch, femme, or anything in between.
Includes fiction and nonfiction. Books with spice, and books with very little romance alike. You may find epic lady knights, pirates, ancient vampires or just weird girl adventures, heartbreaking stories or cozy books of found family and queer joy. Memoirs, historical fiction, instruction manuals, maybe even a poem or two.
Welcoming suggestions<3






these titles are complete sentences!






fantasy/romance books by non-zionists 💌
a list of fantasy book recs free of problematic authors so you can discover without any stress of promoting them!






Middle Eastern-Inspired Fantasy Books






Two and Through
Duologies. Duologies! A list full of duologies. This has a collection of titles I'm interested in and some recommended to me. To save you the trouble, I made sure to put both books in a duology in this list. Enjoy! 💐






Sister Sister
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!






fantasy books with yearning
we love a man who yearns in this house






Books with ✨Arab✨ flavour
Fiction books by Arab authors and/or books starring Arab characters (and as always, Free Palestine)






Closed door/Clean Books
These books contain little to no spice🩷 Double checked by me, fellow reviewers, & romance.io, but if there's still a mistake, please do correct! Only 1 book per author






Ramadan Readathon
Books by Muslim authors you should read year round, but even more so this month






BIPOC fantasy!!
We have a lot of requests in our library for these, so I figured I would provide the page bound community with our list!






SWANA inspired fantasy
instead of medieval europe inspired fantasy all of the time.
Open to recs!
(I removed middle east bc I found out that was the colonial term!)






books to read instead of acotar/fourth wing
literally.






West Asian & Central Asian Fantasy
Fantasy that’s inspired by West Asian and Central Asian countries (myths, worldbulding, setting, etc.) ⊹₊⋆☁︎⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆☁︎⋆₊ ⊹ WEST ASIAN (Middle Eastern) COUNTRIES: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, Egypt CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan






Muslim Authors 🧕
Lets give our brothers and sisters who write fiction the platform they deserve ☀️






POC Authors/main characters






I can't remember the title, but the cover is blue
Ah yes, this ol' issue that has plagued librarians and bookstore clerks for decades.
And sometimes you find the right book, but... can you even call that shade blue?






Books by Muslim authors! 🕌
Some of my favorite books by Muslim authors+ books on my tbr! ( I’ll keep adding to the list)






Fantasy books that AREN'T set in Medieval Europe
Bored of fantasy books that are loosely set in Medieval Europe? Me too. Here are some epic, adventurous, mythological, dark, and spellbinding fantasies set in ancient worlds outside of Europe.





