Recs if you like Beasts Made of Night...

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

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.

Fantasy settings based on African geography, cultures, folklore, myths, legends, or histories — inspired by the Quest with Asian stories of this kind. Suggestions welcome!

I'm sure some of these are already on your TBR, so might as well add some more! Let me know if I am missing any of your favorites!

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

Now that we are all waiting for the new side stories after the ending of Arcane there is a huge empty space begging to be satisfied with the same feeling of season one (mostly, season two went very middle class and we lost the potential of what could have been one of the greatest revolutionary stories in recent media)

Criteria for the books consist generally • Class schisms • Political intrigue • Moral questions of privilege and responsibility • Picks with queer stories

Fantasies that take inspiration from Africa and/or African Countries (myths, setting, etc.)

Fantasy books where tattoos are neither mere adornments nor static marks. Each line and swirl weaves itself into the fabric of their life, unfurling their story. Characters choose their ink with care or with reckless abandon. Every symbol may stand as their shield, or just as easily become their undoing.

The Nommo Awards are literary awards presented by The African Speculative Fiction Society. The awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "science fiction, fantasy, stories of magic and traditional belief, alternative histories, horror and strange stuff that might not fit in anywhere else."

All of the Nommo Award winners in the novel and novella categories

"Out There Screaming" Anthology + possible picks from some of the authors Horror/Sci-fi/Fantasy