Recs if you like A Drop of Corruption...

This is a list of Mushroomcore related books! We have everything from horror, to cozy and fantasy/sci-fi. This is the era of Spontasy (Fantasy), Spomance (Romance) and other genres too. Essentially it's time for the mushroom goblins to take over the world

books with bisexual characters (even if they end up with the opposite sex THEY'RE STILL BI)

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

In honour of the 2026 nominations, this list compiles all the nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel from 2010 - 2026.

red tape but make it fantasy (in which the magic has rules, whether whimsical or bureaucratic)

Where you mix fantasy with a little bit of whodunit mystery and you get to enjoy both. Found and enjoyed a lot of Fantasy Mystery books in 2025. Please recommend me some more so I can read and add them to the list!

Cozy, Horror, Mystery, Adventure, Romance. As long as the book has shrooms as a major plot point, there is a place for it in this list.

Finalists for the novel and novella categories of the 2026 Hugo Award, as announced in April 2026

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Award for BEST NOVEL and BEST NOVELLA, presented by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS).

Shadowy Studies in Unnatural Biology

This is the novels, novellas, novelettes (if they exists on Pagebound), first book of the series and one book from the best author that are nominated for a Hugo Award in 2026. I personally need an overview on what to catch on for the votes (closing beginning of August :))

Best Novel Nominees: A Drop of Corruption • Death of the Author • Shroud • 🏆 The Everlasting • The Incandescent • The Raven Scholar

Best Novella Nominees: Automatic Noodle • Cinder House • Murder by Memory • 🌌 🏆 The River Has Roots • The Summer War • What Stalks the Deep

Legend: 🏆 Winner • 🌌 Nebula Award Winner

Pulled from Reactor Magazine's (Tor.com) announcement. See the article for a list of short stories as well.

Works not in database: We Begin Where Infinity Ends - Somto Ihezue The Tin Man's Ghost - Ray Nayler The Millay Illusion - Sarah Pinsker When He Calls Your Name - Catherynne M. Valente The Twenty-One Second God - Peter Watts Night & Day - ed. Ellen Datlow Starling House - Alix E. Harrow (ILLUSTRATED EDITION, ILLUS. BY ROVINA CAI) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3 (graphic adaptation)

Note: The Revelation Space Collection by Alastair Reynolds is actually for volumes 1 & 2

Excellent stories for fall reading. A mix of scary, witchy, cozy, and/or mushroom-y fantasy/horror books included for all the fall moods.

Mystery novels set in rich, well-developed fantasy worlds. (This list does not include urban fantasy.)

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A list of the best politics in fantasy 📰🧚‍♂️

Detective mysteries, throuple fiction with plot, and BSD Classics from AO3 writer ShipHippo