Recs if you like The Merge...

Books where memories are lost, gained, preserved, encountered, or otherwise altered through means that are not of this world. Work in progress, suggestions always welcome!

i don’t need to explain to anyone why the proliferation climate fiction has skyrocketed over the past few years. this new wave of climate fiction, from 2020-present (ongoing), refuses to exclude climate catastrophe from depictions of or changing world. these works are grounded in present and future realities, the speculative less ‘speculative’, and more predictive.

in which digital spaces and new technologies are used to access strange/surreal/absurd/dreamlike planes of being, raising questions around what it means to exist [in a human body] in our technological age. these books play with style and form in testing and questioning the limits of our humanity.

Fictional stories. Real consequences. Profit > People is dedicated to books with capitalist critique, focusing on the lives - and bodies - sacrificed at the altar of industry and interest. Always taking recommendations!

Beautiful books for when your monthly reading roundup needs a little facelift 😉

A tribute to a type of cover, originally deemed Girls with Fucked Up Faces, that never fails to grab my attention. Not all of these are books I’ve enjoyed or endorse or even read, it’s just all about the covers.

List of books with book covers containing blurry faces, obscured faces, or distorted faces

Books with bizarre concepts

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Metaverse reality shows, holographic concerts, AI robots. The not too distant future looks kinda scary, sometimes dealing with futuristic anxiety is just reading about what would happen if.....

speculative and climate fiction about where we’re going

— Characters on the cover (probably)

Books with covered faces (partial, mostly or fully!) of most/all of the characters on the cover!

recs are welcome! :)

I’m really fascinated by cover trends in publishing and this one has felt inescapable this year so I decided to make a list of them all! I feel like I personally see this most often in horror & lit fic, but I’d love to hear if you’ve seen this trend outside those genres or if there’s another trend you see!

some lit and horror where the cover has an obscured face ! what are they hiding !

Books featuring a plot element that ruins society or science.

Books that have CRUSHING moments that we can’t help but love or appreciate 🥹🥺

Books releasing in November of 2025! Indie & trad

books i want to read

Or my mom

“Mainstream” or “high brow” books that don’t rock the boat or are taboo