Recs if you like The Secret Garden...

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.

Fiction books featuring plants as a major theme. For the purpose of this list, fungi are honorary plants! All fiction genres here (though I am primarily a fantasy reader, so suggestions most welcome!)

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

A list of books that share more specific titles with kpop songs. Kpop songs named after books count. See comments for kpop song and book title match-ups. Always open to suggestions!

Stories that traded chapters for showtunes! From literary classics to contemporary novels these books found a second life under the Broadway lights! Please let me know any that I've missed!! (Note on curation: I've been cross checking titles with Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) which is Broadway's official archive)

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

Being able to build a home is a rare thing these days, so let's build our own imaginary house book by book! Feel free to suggest a title for a home improvement 🛠

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

Books that remind me of the game Stardew Valley! Coziness, cottage-core, and a hint of magic.

books for the barbie movie lovers

It includes novels, mostly classics, that would appeal to potentially new readers;

Times are tough… Here is a list of books that I was able to find as free audiobooks available on YouTube or Spotify!

Books that feel like they could be adapted into a Studio Ghibli movie or have similar vibes to specific Ghibli films

This list includes books featuring neurodivergent “coded” characters that were either written before neurodivergence was understood or take place in fantasy worlds where it might not be described in the same way. Historical fiction also welcome!

This list is open for recommendations! Please focus on stories whose characters are not explicitly neurodivergent for one of the above reasons. Most of these books were recommended by readers on Pagebound, and thus I have not read them all.

As a massive bookworm and theatre nerd, this list was inevitable.

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

Bring on those Gen Y memories! A list of books likely to give people born between 1981 and 1996 a lot of feelings.

This list is for those of us who grew up eagerly awaiting the Scholastic Book Fair, watching Reading Rainbow (or Wishbone!), and dreaming of a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.

Note: these are not books published in 1981-1996, but books that had a hold on the millennial generation.

Also check out the Dear America series, American Girl series & Royal Diaries series.

Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!

(going to only add the first book in a series)