Recs if you like Zone One...

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

Dystopian fiction that feels a little bit too real. Imagined futures, apocalypses, society collapse, oh my!

this is your reminder to read books by Black authors all month, all year, every year— not just during Black History Month. it’s crucially important to be able to diversify your reading and your bookshelves. expand your mind, your perspectives, your knowledge, and your taste. if you don’t know where to start, here are some recommendations!

africanfuturism & afrofuturism see african and african-diasporic writers (respectively) explore Black culture, history, mythology and power through new futures, technologies, and speculative imaginings. these books offer a glimpse into afrofuturist & africanfuturist worlds.

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!

forever chasing the high of the first three seasons of The Walking Dead 😭 books featuring zombies & the zombie apocalypse.

psa: I do not agree with Nicki minaj’s political views

as always, taking suggestions!

just some really great horror scifi

Zombie reading list packed with outbreaks, survival, and the occasional accidental bite. Even the apocalypse has its awkward moments.

dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

Books with titles that start with the most uncommon letters to begin words: X, Q, Z & J.

I wanted to join the fun in doing an alphabet challenge and am currently adding X and Z to complete my alphabet of books :) Here’s some recommendations if others want a similar challenge!

All the books chosen by Booksandlala for the Literally Dead Book club.

literary fiction/general fiction books with a speculative twist some lean more on the literary side, some more speculative. these books are more likely to be marketed as lit fic than speculative/sci-fi/fantasy.

into your house into your bed into your streams into your streets into your drink into your bread upon your cattle on your sheep upon your oxen in your field into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield

books that centre around the apocalypse or the potential for an event to become apocalyptic. may include some dystopian books, zombie stories, climate fiction, pandemic narratives, and natural disasters. the story may centre on a single place rather than the entire world. not all of these were perfect reads but they were still interesting. contains only books i've read

For all your sweet little infected, corpse-like dreams. Don’t be squeamish now.

get ready for everything except the word “zombies” to be used

Undead and/or apocalypse

every month, são paulo's public library creates a 10 book list based on a different country, here are the books of 2026 (january = france, february = england, march = italy, april = south korea, may = portugal, june = russia, july = usa, august = nigeria)