Recs if you like The Mermaid of Black Conch...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

books that engage with water as a way to explore migration, multispecies kinship, race, capitalism, transatlantic slavery, and more. stories that take place in, on, or around the water. coastlines, swamps, rivers, maritime histories, and the oceanic.

My favourite books or from my TBR by BIPOC authors in a range of different genres (though I primarily read fantasy and romance) (only first book for a series added, unless not directly linked)

the us will be excluded from this list as I will make one for the 50 states!

Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, and Speculative Fiction books written by authors of the diaspora

Books featuring mermaids for MerMay! Anything from Ariel to the merperson in The Cabin the Woods - open to additions!

Transformation. Destruction. Renewal. Water holds significance symbolism throughout literature. Take a DIVE into books where water elements play a DEEP role.

Books written by authors from Trinidad and Tobago / set in Trinidad and Tobago. A rich, flavourful, and diverse mix of stories, all bubbling with local goodness.

Circled by treacherous seas and liminal shores, magic ebbs—dances—shimmers in everyday island life…

Retellings and reimaginings of stories and influences from various mythos and pantheons (only putting the first book in each series)

Books with ocean mysticism, pirates, mermaids, sirens, and every sea creature in between.

Covering a range of genres and sub-genres. Only adding the first book of each series.

Delve into the deep sea with these sensational salt-wave reads…

They are beautiful, and that is their sharpest tooth. These are the sirens of the coral reefs and the silk-skinned selkies of the northern rocks. They promise a life without breath, a kingdom of pearls and moonlight. But the sea never gives without taking, and their songs are simply the dinner bell for the deep. We call them... the Lure.

Audiobooks that practically serenade you with their VA's and production. Some have actual music and lyrical qualities, and all of them have great performances from the VA. A list for those who understand that audiobooks do, in fact, count as reading.

✨options for the reading around the world challange✨

One book from every country in the world. 🗺️

This list will keep being updated.