Recs if you like Bright Young Women...

An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.

this is for aesthetics only

All of the books seen on display in Episode 1 of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit," during Lestat's trip to the independent bookstore in Montreal, encountering some snotty cashiers.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

thrillers based in academic settings/college campuses ! recs super welcomed

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these books look back 👀

always accepting suggestions for books with eyes featured prominently on the cover

books who have the same style of covers; featuring bright hot or neon pink🩷 with neon yellow💛!

sadly, the default pagebound editions might not be the correct ones so you’ll have to look through the available editions. pagebound please let us choose</3

open to recs!

Do you listen to True Crime Poscasts on a Friday night with your cat? Think you could solve the Unsolved?

Books featuring True Crimes of the Past and Present.

Nonfiction or “inspired by” allowed, but no straight up fiction. Suggestions welcome!

I noticed a trend in some of my recent reads, in which authors chose to leave the disappointing or downright abusive and criminal men unnamed. I started researching this and expanded it a bit. I haven't read them all, and some don't fit quite as cleanly as my original 3 - Hamnet, A Dowry of Blood, and Bright Young Women, so please let me know if you feel some don't fit well at all, or if you have additional suggestions!!

Historical fiction with powerful women demanding change.

Open for suggestions!

Another collection of books saved from TikTok. We don't gatekeep so I compiled them all here.

For those of you who subscribe to newlynova on either YouTube or TikTok, I have compiled a list of books that she has mentioned in her videos

Covers so bright you gotta read with shades

weird gay shit, lots of genre and gender bending, probably no fantasy

aka mostly “literary thrillers” though that’s an annoying phrase…just thrillers that don’t sacrifice attention to prose for the sake of plot

Books with at least one excellent friendship that is core to the novel!

(I decided siblings and friends to lovers don’t count, unless the in the latter one the romance part is SO minor to the plot and the friendship is wayyy more significant.)

Books that are set in a small town; variety of genres but all one teeny tiny town

This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!

The only qualification is that a woman commits murder. Is she likeable? That's not important. Is she innocent? Also not important. Does anyone listen when she warns them? Of course not. Alas, they never learn.