Recs if you like Yumi and the Nightmare Painter...

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.

Books that inspired or are similar to Studio Ghibli films

Perfect for fantasy lovers with not enough hours in the day!

Feel free to mention any I missed in the comments 😊

For a book to make this list, it needs to start with X, Y, or Z (ignoring "The," "A," "An"), be a standalone or series opener, and have at least a 3.7 star average rating on Pagebound. Pulling from a variety of genres!

Books featuring events like body takeovers, body jumping, body swapping, parasitism, and other similar phenomena! Please feel free to give recommendations in the comments!

A masterlist of standalone adult fantasy novels (no novellas).

Always looking for recs!

There are a lot of suggested Cosmere Reading orders, but I really wanted to read in the order that Sanderson himself suggested. He has a video he released on YouTube with a suggested reading order for his books, so I put together a list that reflects what he posted in that video. The short stories that aren't tied to any particular series are sprinkled in between some of the larger reads like the Stormlight Books. If you have suggestions on how to order said short stories, i'm open to move them around, but please be kind and understand that this entire thing is going to be subjective. Even Sanderson's video was loose in its suggestions, like he didn't want to dictate what his readers pick up. That said, here's the list!

So far these men: can write women characters with depth, don’t enact needless sexual violence on their characters, and aren’t irl monsters. Also their writing is good.

no spice doesn’t mean no heat. pls recommend other swoon-worthy books/series so i can give them a read!!

I love plot-forward fantasy with a lil romance 🫶🏻

So if you’re looking for a fantasy book that’s got a unique magic system and a well-crafted plot (with varying degrees of romance), then maybe these will be for you!

Recommendations are welcome, I’m always on the hunt for more to read !!

Cosmere Reading List by Publication Order

Short stories and novellas may overlap with Arcanum Unbounded.

If you’re planning to read White Sands go for the Omnibus version instead of the single volumes.

A list of books from A-Z. I tried to include various genres to appeal to a wide array of readers. I wanted this to be a good reference list for anyone doing an alphabet reading challenge or anyone just looking for a new book to read!

based entirely on my personal taste (because it is infallible)

A fantasy book for every letter. I tried to get a real mix of different stories from a variety of authors, each book beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, (not including 'the', 'a', 'an'). I hope you enjoy!

if they get together before book three, or before the last twenty pages, it doesn’t count.

Brandon Sanderson universe ~ Cosmere 🌑

A list created using the Reddit forum r/Fantasy 2024 fantasy (and sci-fi) standalones which was voted on by the community

Books with covers so gorgeous they deserve to be displayed as art on your shelves.

Can't attest to the content within, but boy are they pretty 😍

Mostly fantasy romance but genre not limited

series + standalones for those who rewind when darcy flexes his hand. let me know what i’m missing so i can read it and share in the agony. most of these are not the first in the series for obvious reasons.