Recs if you like Between Shades of Gray...

Based on the HRCYED 3.0 prompt! Books with weather or natural disasters/phenomena on the cover (at least one version), including: rain, storms, lightning, clouds, snowfall, fog, sunshine, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis.

Not an exhaustive list - feel free to suggest titles! I tried to keep it more focused on books that fit the prompt but would be harder to find (i.e. ones that don't have the key words in the title).

This is a list of books where a mysterious character finally gives their life story.

This list is about fictional families which break your heart, make your heart and reveal parts of you, you never knew existed. Its about love and dysfunction and how they often come packaged together.

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This list is about historical fiction books as they often make the characters or their interactions feel so real even if there is a bit of fiction.

Not a (physically) cozy moment to be found, absolutely frigid surroundings, bone chillingly cold environs... brrrr

The top 100 best books of the 2010’s as voted for by Goodreads members

Top five: 5) The Martian 4) Gone Girl 3) Divergent 2) Mockingjay

1. The Fault in Our Stars

Antarctica, Patagonia, Alaska, Canada, upper Great Lakes, somewhere in the mountains, wintertime, etc. (fiction and nonfiction)

Bonjour, olá, hallo - these books are set all across Europe. From the coast of Portugal to the beautiful Caucasus and from freezing Scandinavia to the islands of the Mediterranean. Mostly fiction, a few non-fiction (mostly memoirs) in there :) Recommendations welcome!

These are books where, even though it seems like the family ties are broken beyond repair, the messy and sometimes down right hurtful wounds gets healed. (From any genres, if it made me feel healed family vibes it is here)

Historical fiction so good I couldn’t put it down!!

for those in middle school in the late ‘00s to early ‘10s

Books with action in real dictatorships, fiction. Some of them are action books, some other are centered around characters and normal people life.

These are all the books that changed my life and the way that I view the people and cultures around me.

Books about communism, both fiction and non-fiction.

This is a list with books with at least one color in the title, no matter the genre.

A compilaton of standalone stories of war, love, chaos and survival