Recs if you like Going Postal ...

*SFF novels which use footnotes as a secondary narrative, paratext, or metacommentary on events in the main narrative.

fiction books with a main character or featured side character that fits the D&D Rogue class (or at least mostly vibes that way)! here for the sneaking, the out-witting, the dastardly plotting. open to any recs and input!

Limiting this to fantasy/sci-fi, these are books where the MCs are locked up for most of the book or it's a crucial part of the plot. This can include magical prisons, cursed towers, institutions of sorts, and probably more!

Novels that feature magical correspondence, the magical people who write them, the magical post offices that deliver them, and everything in between.

A Reading List for the Chronically Unserious

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle.

Fantasy & Sci Fi books featuring Con Artists, Thieves, Gamblers, Knaves, and other assorted Rogues. Trying to give love to more rogues than just the assassin-type characters

Books with con artistry, snark and consequences

Stories about unlikely people coming together and cosy connections transforming lives.

All main novels related to Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Humor and comedy across genres. Funny books that will make you laugh until you genuinely feel better about life.

Books where letter writing is part of the text. Maybe a chapter is a letter, maybe it's integrated into the text, maybe the postal system or letters are just important to the plot.

Look, I appreciate Cozy Fantasy and other cozy reads... but, to me, there are other books which fulfill the function of giving my brain a break and helping me relax and leave behind the stress of the real world. So this is a list of feel-good, "cozy" reads for all of you who don't find the usual cozy reads relaxing. Enjoy.

The world scares me sometimes, and I need to run away. These are the books that let me escape for a while. I can't promise they are any less scary - but at least they are different!