Recs if you like Hurricane Season...
Latin American Horror
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!
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
Post-colonial Fever Dreams
tangled narratives and re-formed genres sprouting from the toxic ground of colonialism
One Book Many Quests
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?
Feral and Hysterical: Works by Women
List of recommendations included in Sadie Hartmann's Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women.
Pairs with 50 States, 50 Books by Women list.
Mexican Horror & Supernatural ☠️🇲🇽
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!
¡Ay wey! Mexican Authors are chidos 🇲🇽
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. 💚
Horror (made by Latinas) 🔥💜
Grotesque, visceral, and boldly unsettling horror by Latin American women! // Shelf is a WIP, recommendations are welcomed! ✍️
Bleakness Is My Weakness
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!
international booker - all books
winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026
~ stream of consciousness ~
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!
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
wayward women in translation
weird/wicked/gory/gothic/strange/surreal books by women, translated into english.
Hell is other (young) people
Unsettling or gritty books featuring portraits of troubled youth, with varying elements of horror.
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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
Quest busters pt. 2
my list of books on 2+ quests, continued!
Mother Nature (Natural Phenomena on the Cover)
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).
Horror in Translation
Horror from around the world translated to English by amazing translators!
Escritoras del mundo
Mujeres que escriben historias
Interested: Me interesan pero aun no lo consigo TBR: Comprado pero aún sin leer
books to make you feel sick
i love books that feel vile and uncomfortable and leave you feeling like you need to take a long shower and think about your life choices and that you can’t stop thinking about for days after. recs wanted and appreciated
