Recs if you like Blue Hunger...
Badge Gremlins
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.
sapphic books for litfic girls
my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically
Horror in < 200 pages
Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.
Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.
HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Titles Edition)
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!
alphabet soup group
Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.
the formative queer experience of a codependent friendship/relationship
codependent yaoi/yuri/queer situationships, friendship or relationships 💔 some may be toxic. open to suggestions especially sapphic ones
Women in Translation
Celebrate women in translation month all year round with this list of fabulous books
Set in China
Books set in China!
Translated queer literature
Books with main characters from the LGBT community from all over the world.
Chicks Being Chicks
Gross girls, girlhood, and the like
Reading the Queer World: Europe
Mix of genres by queer authors from nations in Europe set (partially) in the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation, but please leave recommendations if you have them!
Bulgaria: Four Minutes Finland: The Red Book of Farewells France: All Men Want to Know; Sphinx; The Last One Iceland: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was Italy: Blue Hunger Netherlands: The Tree and the Vine; The Safekeep Norway: Paradise Rot Russia: Wound Spain: Permafrost; Bad Habits; Napalm in the Heart Sweden: Fair Play
traveling library
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)
