Recs if you like The Library of the Dead...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

There will be no one breasting boobily anywhere here.

Some criteria:

• women characters should be multidimensional with their own goals, agendas, and flaws
• the main character should be a woman, and there should be at least one other female character who is significant to the plot
• women characters’ role should not be defined solely by her relationship to a man
• author is a cis man
• one book per author

Let’s hold male authors to a higher standard because it is possible.

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

Recommendations encouraged!

YA fantasy novels written by Black authors featuring magic-wielding Black main characters. Suggestions welcome!

magic systems in fantasy that resemble and incorporate real or fictional sciences! for the fantastical scientists that want magic inscriptions that feel like coding, alchemy, and magical equations fueling spells!

Books set in my favourite city - Edinburgh, Scotland

fantasical libraries and whimsical bookshops, these books add a magical charm to familiar bookish places

Ah yes, this ol' issue that has plagued librarians and bookstore clerks for decades.

And sometimes you find the right book, but... can you even call that shade blue?

You've found out magic is real! Great! But is it being used to create an utopia? What?! There's a crapton of red tape and politics? Oh bollocks.

Ceud mìle fàilte! ☆ Castles, Moors, Sìth and lochs and trees for as far as the eye can see! From fantasy, sci fi, crime, lit fic, horror, to non fiction, the Scots can do it all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A small country with mighty good *authors and equally amazing books that deserve a spotlight!

*List mainly features authors who are Scottish but also some books by authors who may not be Scottish but their books are set in Scotland!

Protagonists and supporting characters who see and/or hear the dead / ghosts

Books that capture the uncanny upside-down of that city you thought you knew so well.

Books set in/around Scotland. Highlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, outer islands, etc.

Books by Scottish authors, across genres. (Will not be including any JKR.) Dark crime, litfic, a bit of satire, fantasy, scifi & speculative fiction. Trying to include a mix of everything in here.

Recommendations welcome. 🫶

Book club for @LittleLeggies twitch community January - Goodnight Tokyo February - Burn Down Master's House March - Cruelty Free April - Time Loops and Meet Cutes May - The Marrow Thieves June - Martyr! July - The Sign for Home August - Pride and Prejudice September - Muñeca October - A Glacier's Guide to Dying November - I Who Have Never Known Men December - The Library of the Dead

Do you want to read some good science-fiction/fantasy? These novels have it (subjective). Here, mostly queer, anti-colonial, dripping with world building and other bodily fluids. Without a reliable narrator in sight! These are written for adults, that does NOT mean they are inherently spicy. Good Luck!~

siri play "unreal unearth" by hozier

Reading Glasses Podcast frequently recommended books.

Fiction books set in Scotland

Open to recs!!