Recs if you like Falling in Love with Hominids...

africanfuturism & afrofuturism see african and african-diasporic writers (respectively) explore Black culture, history, mythology and power through new futures, technologies, and speculative imaginings. these books offer a glimpse into afrofuturist & africanfuturist worlds.

(Broadly defined) Poetic, dreamy, strange, odd fantasy/sci-fi. Doesn’t have to be all of these things at once, mostly it’s fantasy/sci-fi that ‘breaks the norm’ (in style, prose and story)- whatever that means. Or books wonderfully odd, in any sort of way.

I’m not such a fast reader, neither do I have the golden touch finding only books that fit in this list… ‘Breaking the norm’ can be seen as rather subjective, so I’d love any suggestion that you feel fit (and why do you feel they fit?).

books written by disabled authors

Horror short story collections and anthologies

books you thought were lost to time, never to be seen again 😞 BUT WE GOT EM 🥹

no inclusion of mainstream/popular books (BookTok, movie or tv adaptations, series or authors oversaturated within reading apps already), at least until they're forgotten, favour given to books with next to no active fandom

List of horror books (mostly 2000-2023) compiled by Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror.