Recs if you like The Book of M...
strange plagues (further reading)
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!!!
Fantastical Memory
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!
Not that DMV
Stories that feature DC, Maryland, or Virginia. (Statehood for DC!)
get in, loser! we're going on a road trip!
sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.
hopeful post-apocalypse
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!
Quiet Apocalypses
Post-apocalyptic/end of the world stories that are more about the people surviving than the larger details of the collapse.
fantastical realism
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🚧
Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Emily Woo Zeller
📍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.
I send a pestilence and plague
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
It's the End of the World!
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!
I Don't Remember....
Books exploring memory
The dead don't stay dead
Novels about life after death: zombies, ghosts, after life, and reincarnation.
the book of
authors love naming their books "the book of _____"
Not Another Pandemic List
Books with pandemics
As The World Caves In
apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
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