Recs if you like The Book of M...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

Books where memories are lost, gained, preserved, encountered, or otherwise altered through means that are not of this world. Work in progress, suggestions always welcome!

Stories that feature DC, Maryland, or Virginia. (Statehood for DC!)

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

also known as “cozy catastrophes,” these are books that deal with a post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian world but are still hopeful, uplifting, or just leave you with more of a postive feeling!

TLDR : magical realism with emphasis on the magical My own niche microgenre bc I'm a snob! Fantastical realism pushes the boundaries of magical realism, just bordering that edge into fantasy but still holding onto a grounding tree branch in realism. 🚧work in progress, always accepting recs🚧

Post-apocalyptic/end of the world stories that are more about the people surviving than the larger details of the collapse.

📍inspired by @erintripsey's lists of the same title

Emily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audiobook narrator. She has been awarded since 2013 by the Earphone Awards among many other institutions for her audiobook narration. You can find her voice acting roles in multiple Pokemon projects and Cyberpunk 2077.

Books that leave a lasting impression long after you’ve returned them to the shelf. Romance is not required to break your heart - this list also includes fantasy, fiction, and nonfiction compiled by my own heartbreak, friends, and social media recommendations to hurt your feelings. Happiness? Don’t know her, I need to call my therapist for a higher antidepressant dose. [Never take these away from me.]

If any of these novels or authors are problematic in any way please let me know.

Apocolyptic fiction for all the readers opting to trade our dystopia for a different one. Typically jam-packed full of zombies, and fallout, and viruses, oh my!

Books exploring memory

Novels about life after death: zombies, ghosts, after life, and reincarnation.

into your house into your bed into your streams into your streets into your drink into your bread upon your cattle on your sheep upon your oxen in your field into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield

authors love naming their books "the book of _____"

Books with pandemics

apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction