Recs if you like The Lost Apothecary...

books that transport you into gentle adventures and charming worlds (with a side of life-altering epiphanies and self discoveries)

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

Fiction (and some non-fiction) across genres featuring plagues, poisons, palace physicians, healers, and pre-antibiotic chaos. If it involves herbs, plagues, questionable remedies, court intrigue, or a morally complex healer experimenting in the corner, I want it.

Crime, obsession, feminine rage etc 🩷

Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.

Books about witches (fiction and non fiction)

Just preparing for Triple October...

Plants and women that are pretty but deadly

Magically Witchy Reads

Books that are perfect for back to school and the start of autumn!

Fiction books that outright tackle misogyny, or have feminist undertones. For every reader out there who's tired of being met with toxic/misogynist behaviour in stories that is presented as acceptable, or even romantic, and those who want to learn about the female perspective. (For more horrory books, see my list "Feminist Horror", for YA, see my list "Feminist YA".)

red, white, grey or black london, where are you travelling to today?

(recommendations welcome, but will probably not add books written by cis men)

cinematically written books that you just KNOW, if they make it into a movie, they're going to mess it up despite ALL THE DIRECTION BEING RIGHT THERE.

So cozy

Cozy books that are perfect to read when you're feeling emotional and want to fall into a warm story with memorable characters

books when you're not sure if you'll like fantasy. Most are real life + a little magic.

'𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓯 𝓰𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓼, 𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓵.'

don’t bother