Recs if you like Trouble the Saints...

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

Doing crime when gay should be legal. Also includes be bi do crime, be trans do crime, and everything in-between. Levels of crime and queerness may vary.

(I'll take suggestions!)

Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!

Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' fantasy. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)

Love casts a spell; the real monster is oppression. Modern magical realism, urban fantasy, and fabulism: books that use supernatural elements to explore themes of family, desire, history, and society.

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

Some books I’ve read recently have mentioned numbers running and/or the policy racket, and I’d like to learn more. Suggestions welcome!

A list of winners of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It has been awarded each year since 1975 by the World Fantasy Convention for fantasy or horror novels (defined as works of 40,000 words or more) published in English.