Recs if you like On the Calculation of Volume I...

Fantasy, sci-fi, & horror translated into English.

Book covers with typography oriented in non-standard alignments, instead of the typical horizontal + left to right text alignment. Or: graphic design is my passion, and today we are learning about text paths 🙂‍↕️. This is an immensely silly List, and always open to suggestions—vertical text, circular, upside down, anything goes!

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

"The end is already written. Your actions are up to you, you can choose to get off this ride whenever. We both know you won't do it."

books where shit goes down in 24 hours or less

Herein lies the liminal, the eerie. A seven part series documenting a single day and wide green fields void of any living beings. Reality is a train that has left long ago, and you are a post apocalypse zombie. Derealisation abounds and reality is a solid thing we can't grasp. Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. For the twelfth housers out there.

Will update the more I read

Books with time loops

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

Trying to support indie publishers and read more diverse fiction! I’m starting with the Booker Prize and hopefully adding more when I can. Add your recs in the comments!

not food related, not the prettiest covers ever (though some of them definitely are), just book covers I want to eat 👅

Do you, like me, often find yourself looking at a book cover thinking, "Y'all are doing waaay too much." Why are book covers so dang extra nowadays? Here are some books that appeal to me simply because they have covers that don't look like a 19 year old with Photoshop barfed a bunch of design elements on a book and called it a day. Some I've read, some are on the TBR. And to all the authors and publishers out there, K.I.S.S.

Weird books for weird girls

I guess you could call it liminal...

This is not the Booker Prize for Fiction but the honor focused on translated work. This longlist has 13 books translated from 10 languages.

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)

Books that involve time loops of some kind. These will not include 'normal' time travel, and mostly focus on books that repeat the same stretch of time

all longlisted books from 2018-2026

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

Short novels can sometimes be overlooked by readers who usually go for content that will leave them thinking. Usually, only books that are exceptionally long or are known as classics can leave a reader reeling for hours after. However, in around 200 pages or less, these authors have composed multiple or a single story that cause you to question the way things are in the world in comparison to how they could be.