Recs if you like The Argonauts...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

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

Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

books from parents’ perspectives that acknowledge our current dystopia. suggestions always welcome!

Memoirs where the audiobook is narrated by the author

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

NOT a guide for parents.

The comfortable, cozy, ugly & the fucked up.

Adult/General Fiction Books or Memoirs/(Auto)biographies - with a trans person as a focus in relationship to parenthood or pregnancy

Found family, bio families, pregnancy, non-traditional relationships and family dynamics & more

This started off as a personal exploration on my trans body & relationship to “motherhood” for an art project

Recs highly welcome !!

Emotional, sensual, sexual…precious intimacy in many forms but all deeply rooted in queerness and profoundly intense experiences.

Queer Lit (adult/general audience) titles.

Based for now on titles I have engaged with- thus mlm dominating at the moment

Recs welcome!!

See comments also for more titles (and films!)

it's giving cunt

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

book club book picks

Fiction and nonfiction talking about the intricacies of queer parenting, children's novels with queer parents, memoirs, and adult fiction. Recs always welcome

according to the New York Times

Books from the Florence and the Machine book club @betweentwobooks on IG

(I am not the book club admin, just a fan, and these are not all the books but I will add them all in soon, I promise)

These essays, manifestos, and treatises all come in under 200 pages.