Recs if you like An Abundance of Katherines...

Allow me to set the scene:

It’s 2 AM on a school night but you only have 100 pages left. You will power through. Forget the math test you have first period. This is your priority. And you must know how the book ends.

I don’t know what sort of millennial catnip these 2000s YA authors put in these books, but let me tell you, my “baby millennial” self was addicted.

Pagebound Millennials: what YA were you reading?

the staples of the book community on youtube in the early to mid 2010s.

Fuck censorship! This is not in support of this group but to bring awareness of their actions. Started by Cierra Clarke of Twin Falls, Idaho Moms for Liberty has challenged more than 95 books in the districts collection, two of which have been removed. This is a list of the books challenged as of 2026.

If you're a podcast addict like myself, you know that a lot of hosts also write books! Recs are welcome and appreciated 🩷

books that remind me of my Gen Z childhood, not necessarily books published 1997-2012. feel free to leave recs in the comments!

Characters in novels traveling our world, either via road trip, flights, tours, what have you, that will make you want to travel.

For the readers out there who were on the internet with no restrictions in the early 2010s XD

Please comment which book was your favorite during this era!

Healing my inner child

it's the 2010s, you're watching the vlogbrothers on youtube & watching the hunger games movies with your friends in cinemas

back in 2012 I used to run a multi-fandom account on insta/tumblr and all these books/series were fandoms I posted about. inspired to make this as some of these series I've not read for ~10 years and I want to go back and reread them, and the nostalgia in me wanted to create this list for anyone else who misses this era of fandom tumblr 🥹

small note: i don't support jkr, nor am i a fan of the series, but i have included HP for the timeframe and the influence it had on me at that age.

Joining my younger self on a reread of all the books I was exceptionally obsessed with in elementary, middle, and high school to reread this year between heavier books (some of the series are very long so I’m only including first in a series)

The books that were quoted, GIFd, and obsessed over on everyone’s favorite social media site.

Most popular or most read books set at a boarding school.

Only the first book of a series will be added.

Teenage nostalgia 2012-2016

well. unless ur like me and need to live vicariously through other peoples happy lil romances

childhood reads that birthed a bibliophile and are worth rereading, remembering, or revisiting!

books that shaped my teen years 🥀

boom clap blasting, flower crown in your hair, scrolling tumblr, everyone's insta bio says "in that moment, we were infinite"

I own too many books