Recs if you like Glory...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

i love when animals get the chance to yap and/or narrate their own stories :)

recommendations welcome!

tangled narratives and re-formed genres sprouting from the toxic ground of colonialism

africanfuturism & afrofuturism see african and african-diasporic writers (respectively) explore Black culture, history, mythology and power through new futures, technologies, and speculative imaginings. these books offer a glimpse into afrofuturist & africanfuturist worlds.

(Non)fictional books about revolutions, where the people have enough and overthrow the system. It's not just "evil emperor", it's a broken system that suffocates people.

This is not Star Wars: A New Hope ✨️, this is Star Wars: Andor ✊🏽

For the former enjoyer of fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction series without the time or obsession to get through three or more books to finish a narrative. These books are majority historical fictions that unfold at an epic scale. Whether through one journey, generations, or centuries, these stories speak to identities (often cultural or of a nation) and to truths larger than themselves.

Please note that any post-Cold War narrative settings exist alongside more historical perspectives.

Let the animals tell the story! I am trying to be as comprehensive as possible with the exception of children’s books, graphic novels and comics (too many to list!)-although there are some.

2019-2026

Books from every country for reading around the world challenge (no particular order, I might have missed some, will be updating) Feel free to suggest!

Travel through time and across the planet with these immersive historical fiction novels.