Recs if you like Hurricane Season...

Horror books written by Latin American authors.

This list was a winner of the Q1 2026 Community Voting event. To participate in the Side Quest, please follow the link pinned in the comments.

I am planning on keeping this list alive and will be adding more recommendations as I find them. Thank you everyone for nominating and voting for the list to be made into a Side Quest!

tangled narratives and re-formed genres sprouting from the toxic ground of colonialism

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Mexicans have have a deep connection to supernatural folklore. Witches, ghosts, legends, demons, you name it we have it. Here's a collection of Horror/Supernatural books written by Mexican authors. Have not read all of them so if you have any suggestions, please let me know and I'll add it!

I’m a proud Mexican, proud of my culture and my people. As a reader, I feel the need to give more visibility to my fellow Mexicans, this list of 15 amazing books was curated with the sole purpose of expose them to those who are interested in discovering the world of incredible an very talent Mexican Authors. Books are universal, picking, choosing and recommending books are three things I considere to be my love language, so this list is made with love from me to you. 💚

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

Grotesque, visceral, and boldly unsettling horror by Latin American women! // Shelf is a WIP, recommendations are welcomed! ✍️

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

weird/wicked/gory/gothic/strange/surreal books by women, translated into english.

works of literary fiction that use the stream of consciousness narrative technique (popular in post-WWI modernist literature) to express the natural flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensory impressions.

often fragmented, unconventional, experimental in terms of structure, punctuation and syntax.

recs welcome!

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

feminist horror, femgore, or whatever you want to call it, whether they’re fighting the patriarchy, unpacking the horrors of girlhood and womanhood, or becoming the monstrous feminine themselves, these books put women at the center of the nightmare — and honestly, what could be more fun? (:

Unsettling or gritty books featuring portraits of troubled youth, with varying elements of horror.

writers exploring life under war or dictatorship often explore these themes through the image of the desecrated corpse or perverted burial rite. the dead body is front and centre in these works, mostly from writers in the global south.

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

Mujeres que escriben historias

Interested: Me interesan pero aun no lo consigo TBR: Comprado pero aún sin leer

my list of books on 2+ quests, continued!

Based on the HRCYED 3.0 prompt! Books with weather or natural disasters/phenomena on the cover (at least one version), including: rain, storms, lightning, clouds, snowfall, fog, sunshine, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis.

Not an exhaustive list - feel free to suggest titles! I tried to keep it more focused on books that fit the prompt but would be harder to find (i.e. ones that don't have the key words in the title).