Recs if you like A Short Walk Through a Wide World...

books that transport you into gentle adventures and charming worlds (with a side of life-altering epiphanies and self discoveries)

The SCP is an organization that Secures, Contains, and Protects our world against anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Be advised: these books contain such SCPs that have escaped confinement and have caused havoc and destruction. Read at your own peril. And remember to document your findings.

Maybe the people are magical, maybe the library is. Maybe these aren’t as fictional as they seem.

Recommendations encouraged!

Sometimes you're just not ready to commit to a series

Books featuring labyrinths and mazes.

This list features book covers illustrated/designed by Pennsylvania-based artist Jim Tierney. Tierney's illustrations feature sweeping textures, dramatic lighting, and bold, nostalgic text design, as you will definitely note while scrolling through this list. Please note that in some cases, his work is one of multiple versions of cover art for the same book, so it may appear as a different version here than the one he illustrated. In some cases I have avoided adding specific versions to curb confusion.

Goodreads 60 Most Popular Fantasy Novels of the Past 3 Years

Books for understanding the world and the people in it. Fiction and nonfiction

These are all books I feel the art style and storytelling of Studio Ghibli would make magical!