Recs if you like This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me...

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!

books with covers that look like another

Hii, everyone ♡ I am a very big fan of the booktuber @caricanread so I thought I would make a list of all the books she has read this year! ✰

Tongue in cheek list inspired by the book titled above, here is a list of all the romance books I have read with my IRL book club!

Having a space that embraces the love story and all tropes/themes/sub genres has been so wonderful and is what got me back into my reading journey, so I hope this does that for you!
Books range from YA to 4️⃣🌶️

This is a judgement free zone and some of these books weren't my personal fave but they could be yours 🤗

2 new books are added each month

All the 2026 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

Romances with Vikings, Barbarians, Berserkers and other warlords as the mmc.

Books where he maybe…invades her country, is a feared warlord in their armies, is given to him as a warprize, or she is put into an arranged marriage with him as part of a alliance or peace negotiations…or maybe he is a alien race that actually goes beserk when he’s angry 🤷‍♀️.

Fantasy romance books (or paranormal-adjacent e.g. Omegaverse) with FMCs in their 30s or older and/or FMCs who read as +30s

Portal fantasy (middle grade through adult lit with maybe some sci-fi too).

Because sometimes you just want to read about characters literally escaping their world or temporarily exploring other ones since you’re stuck here.

(Please note: series will only contain the earliest applicable volume even if more/all are the same to avoid clutter. Also, open to recs!)

no spice doesn’t mean no heat. pls recommend other swoon-worthy books/series so i can give them a read!!

series + standalones that actually feel like a different world (and are more about fantasy-type things than romance-type things). lemme know if i’m missing one of your faves and i’ll give it a read!

based entirely on my personal taste (because it is infallible)

Birds on the cover. Why do they all creep me out so much? Extra points if they’re weird/creepy.

Please feel free to add your suggestions/recommendations!

if they get together before book three, or before the last twenty pages, it doesn’t count.

"By the breath of Set, what sorcery is this?! These scribes of the far north and the distant west have imagined worlds that almost - almost - match the splendor of my own court. They speak of dragons? I have hunted lions in the heat of the Retjenu! They speak of rings of power? I wear the crown of the Two Lands, which binds the world from the Delta to the cataracts of Kush! ​Still... there is a certain charm to these 'high fantasies' that I can not deny."

Smart (from cunning to book smart and everything inbetween) female protagonists in fantasy and paranormal romance books

Mangas & manhwas (and some books!) that feature a character being transported (isekai'd) to another world or reincarnated (usually courtesy of some vehicle or "accident" 👀) 🚛💨

Cozy ‘the D&D party’s journey between the adventures’, Retired Adventurers, Western Isekai?, and Contemporary Nerd Romance Recs involving Online RPG, TTG, and Girls in STEM.

books i’m hoping to read for my first r/fantasy bingo