Recs if you like The Rose Code...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

Books with neurodivergent MCs across various genres so you can find them in your favorite one.

Neurodivergent rep here includes autism, adhd, ocd or dyslexia. In addition the term neurodivergent also includes anyone who’s neurological processing works in a way that isn’t considered typical; such as various personality disorders, other sensory issues and depending on who you ask also depression, ptsd, and more. I’ve included all here when I find them.

This list is full of women who solve problems, break rules, run experiments, ask inconvenient questions, and generally refuse to stay in the lanes they were assigned. Fiction and non-fiction, from romance to history. Welcome to the nerdy, brilliant chaos.

Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025

2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers

The top 100 books of the 2020’s as voted on by Goodreads members

How many have you read?

The top 5 have switched order, they should be: 5) I’m Glad My Mom Died 4) The Midnight Library 3) The House in the Cerulean Sea 2) Project Hail Mary

1. Addie LaRue

WWII historical fiction. From everyday bravery to remarkable heroism, these characters and their stories remind us that everyone can be brave.

Credit to @startripper for the title (I don’t listen to the smiths :(

Fiction books about women who are smart, capable and really into science.

This list contains books that combine multiple POV with multiple timelines. In some books, the characters live in different eras. In other books the story follows multiple characters seen across shifting moments in their lives. If you love stories that jump between voices and timeframes, then this list is for you!

600+ page books for when you want to get stuck in and live in a novel for a while. Variety of genres. All standalones.

Novels about strong women in STEM

Fictional books that have some aspect or relation to WWII

Tragic and heartbreaking

Books across genres that feature a woman as the main character, many written by women as well.

books about women!