Recs if you like The Brothers Lionheart...
Fantasy books you can read instead of Harry Potter
JK Rowling is a bigot who uses her platform to hurt transfolks and other marginalized groups (plus she literally just quoted Mein Kampf on the bird site). If you're still supporting her in 2025, don't bother talking to me.
Swedish Classics
A collection of Swedish classics that have been translated to English, including some more modern classics. First I added classics I'm familiar with myself and then I went down a rabbit hole looking at a couple of lists online and the recently established cultural canon of Sweden. I've made an effort to add diversity where I can but as you can imagine it's quite lacking, especially in works that have been translated to English. I've also excluded poetry for now as that's not my thing.
come, little children, I take thee away
🎶 Come, little children, I take thee away / into the land of enchantment 🎶 that nostalgic feeling when you were a child and you could see glimpses of a new fantastical world of magic and wonders basically a collection of stories where children and teens discover a new world with hidden dark undertones which also includes BIPOC/LGBTQ+ representation
Scandinavian Literature
Acclaimed or well known books from Scandinavia. Only works that have been translated to English. General vibes are dark, depressive books, some fairytales and crime novels.
Have you ever thought about dying?
Books where one or more characters think about taking the ultimate step, arguing for or against it, assessing the action and its consequences, or seeing it as a viable route to take.
BBC’s 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time
The BBC’s 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time as published in May 2023.
dick grayson core.
books i think dick grayson // aka nightwing from dc comics // would read curled up ontop of a chandelier.
Childhood books that I still enjoy
Books I read as a kid or books my mom read to me, that still just hit right. Mostly typical German/Northern European books
