Recs if you like Fake Dates and Mooncakes...

Romance books to read for the aesthetic (usually cartoon covers because I’m trash for character art)

Books about food, either non-fiction or foodie fiction

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

| 2026 | verity: october 2 sense & sensibility: october 16 sunrise on the reaping: november 20 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

Fiction books with at least one main character identifying as Asian and LGBTQ (queer and/or trans) — continuously updated!

I went through all the books in the romance quest tab and here are all the ones where at least one of leads is in a relationship that is not "man and woman falling in love with each other." F/F, M/M, F/NBi, M/NBi, NBi/NBi, etc. Largely motivated by wanting to figure out which romance book quests I had a chance of getting the badges for. If I missed any, let me know. Quest specific info in the pinned comment.

Ah yes, this ol' issue that has plagued librarians and bookstore clerks for decades.

And sometimes you find the right book, but... can you even call that shade blue?

A non-comprehensive list of Queer books.

Covers by the amazing artist Myriam Strasbourg all gathered in one place!

There are a lot of special editions as well, but I didn’t include those.

A list of books (both fiction and non-fiction) featuring LGBTQ+ characters and/or theme, written by authors from Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam). Will be updated continuously.

All are very welcome to this list, but I've geared it towards my fellow neurospicy folk with busy Brains who need some high dopamine sparks from their books...and for it to not take forever for us to read a book and we lose our interest/hyperfocus 🤣🥰

╰┈➤𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑴𝑴 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑻𝑩𝑹 ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆

Novels of various genres about food, drinks, or other treats!

queer? yes. fall? halloween? spooky? fantasy? mystical? all and more? yes probably?!

includes chapter books & graphic novels

list of books with cartoon art look

Some amazing romance books with the fake dating trope. Please comment any suggestions I should add!

I love books with a very cute & cozy atmosphere, so here are some recommendations with diverse queer rep. Btw there are also some german books in here which haven't been translated so far, just so you know 🫶🏻

If it has any semblance of fake dating, it’s going on the list ✨