Recs if you like The Berry Pickers...
Indigenous fiction
Credits to @Literary.leveret for some of the books on here
Canada, eh!
Canadian authors writing books set in Canada.
Books to Decolonize your Mindset
Fiction and Non-Fiction books that challenge colonial frameworks either through storytelling and/or through information. These books are books that have had an impact on me - but open to suggestions to build this out further!
Generational Healing ❤️🩹 (BIPOC Authors)
Multigenerational family/chosen family narratives! Books with multiple POVs from different generations within communities.
Urban Indigenous Narratives
An ongoing list of books that I've read which combine the urban environment and Indigeneity into one concept or identity.
Indigenous literature
Either by or about Indigenous American, Hawaiian, Aboriginal people, etc. (with an emphasis on the supernatural and folklore just because that’s my fav) I am not Indigenous so I would love suggestions and comments!
Welcome to the Maritimes
Books about the Maritime Provinces (NB, NS, PEI) written by (mostly) Canadian authors.
Howard Norman is my personal exception because he wrote a book about Parrsboro and lived in Canada.
Indigenous Fiction
Fiction Stories based on Indigenous/American Indian/Native American culture.
family matters
from multi-generational tales to sibling sagas!
Popular Fiction of the Decade
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
Snackey Snacks
if you can eats it, it goes on the list
Read the North 🇨🇦
Celebrating Canadian authors, with an emphasis on fiction. I'm also trying to include a lot of Indigenous authors in this list! Open to suggestions.
Indigenous Canadian Fiction
Indigenous Canadians writing thought-provoking and inspiring work about facing down the legacy of colonialism.
family epics
epics or sagas around the family, intergenerational or otherwise. think complex, layered relationships, conflict spanning decades, familial trauma, and great love stories
families across generations
fiction about generations of families, their relationships, and their legacies.
Narratives of Nations
A list of books set across different countries (mainly for the historical fiction globe trotters)
Wicked Smaht Masshole
(mostly fiction) stories set in boston and new england you should read if you want to be a ✨masshole✨
Blood is thicker than we think
These are books where, even though it seems like the family ties are broken beyond repair, the messy and sometimes down right hurtful wounds gets healed. (From any genres, if it made me feel healed family vibes it is here)
Read The States Challenge - Maine
This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!
compelling characters
whether you love 'em or you hate 'em, here are some great character-driven novels if you like a book with well-developed characters
