Recs if you like Blue Hunger...

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.

my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically

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.

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!

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

codependent yaoi/yuri/queer situationships, friendship or relationships 💔 some may be toxic. open to suggestions especially sapphic ones

Celebrate women in translation month all year round with this list of fabulous books

Books set in China!

Books with main characters from the LGBT community from all over the world.

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

Gross girls, girlhood, and the like

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)