Recs if you like The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

Books where memories are lost, gained, preserved, encountered, or otherwise altered through means that are not of this world. Work in progress, suggestions always welcome!

respect your mothers! and their mothers, and their....

Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!

Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' sci fi. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)

July is Disability Pride Month! Here's a big pile of books with disabled characters. All the books also have at least one queer character, and in most cases, the queer character and the disabled character are one and the same. (There are a few non-fiction titles in the mix as well; representation for queerness may be subtext/interpreted). (This list is presented by Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher focused on publishing queer art and stories by queer creators! A group of us collaborate to make these recommendations.)

Books that collect short stories by one author!

Short story collections in any genre, all stories by a single author.

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Fictional books featuring Black characters that are part of the queer community.

These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.

This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.

📣 Magic is obviously more than vibes, now come on folks! Magic...is... revolution! These books blend fantasy with anti-colonial rage, class struggle, empire critique, and hard-won resistance. Think spellcasting AND strategy meetings. No chosen ones (for the most part), just complicated power. For readers who want their magic systems dense and their politics louder than the dragons.

Books by judges, guess judges and contestants of Ru Paul's Drag Race

Comment any i missed!

Short story collections that I love and recommend