Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.






endearingly grumpy old people and their found families
books whose main characters are older and disillusioned with life and go on a little adventure that melts their hearts (and heals yours)






nothing to tea here
books set in tea shops, with a tea shop as a primary location, or centered around tea.






what IS in a name?
books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)






In which the title is comically long
We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome ๐ค






It's a (Modern) Mystery!
Like Agatha Christie but in the modern world. Please leave recommendations!






Murder?! ๐ช At Our Age?! ๐ฌ
A collection of mysteries where the retirees, pensioners, and silverโhaired legends of small towns take crime into their own hands. Sometimes they are solving it, sometimes they causing it, and sometimes they might be doing a bit of both.






Books that make you hungry
Books about food, either non-fiction or foodie fiction






Cute-munity Cozy Reads
A list of cozy fiction for when the world is heavy and the Book Club book is too much.
Books are cozy based on other lists or cute-munity reccs. Your milage may vary.






Cozy Case Files (cozy mystery recommendations)
Books to read when you want to solve murders without leaving the couch ~ a snug stack of cozy mysteries! โจ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ตโโ๏ธ






Asian Authors
An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.






Mysteries and Thrillers
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 ๐






Life starts after your 60s...
I think more books should be about old people getting into shenanigans. There is this small part of the book space with the stories of people who find the meaning of their life or mess others up because they don't care anymore. These are their stories , hilarious, emotional, heartwarming and heartbreaking, each unique...
Hope they make you feel alive!






titles that made me go โwait whatโ ๐
I love it when titles break the naming conventions of books. Iโve had enough a blank of blank and blank, I want something NEW, something STRANGE, something that immediately makes me check out the synopsis with the excitement of a dog who has seen a squirrel ๐ฟ๏ธ






please allow me to introduce myself
the nameโs Bond. Alexz Bond. ๐
always taking suggestions for books with a full name in the title.






read with your ears
books that were better on audio
basically every memoir is also going to be better on audio, especially if the author narrates it, but I have a separate list for those






First Book in Cozy Mystery Series
The starters for cozy mystery series with fun and unique themes, amateur sleuths with niche-specific jobs and hobbies, adorable animal companions (or supernatural beings), small towns with close-knit communities, may or may not include tasty recipes, and generally just some fun romp mysteries!






Tiny Fables
All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.






crime but make it cozy
cozy mysteries






mystery but make it more funny than suspenseful
this has become one of my fav types of read, would love recs





