Recs if you like Paper Towns...

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

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?

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

your 2016 book blog called it misses you

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

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

A roundup of YA books that were popular back in the days of us baby millennials. For anyone feeling nostalgic for the 2010’s. Draw a little mustache on your finger because you’re so quirky and get reading like you already finished your homework for the night!

Based on my favorite podcast Rereading the Revolution. The hosts reread and recap popular 2000s-2010s novels from Divergent to Looking for Alaska.

The list is in order of oldest episodes to most recent. I will try and update when new episodes drop.

So take a walk down memory lane with these nostalgic picks, or find something new that sparks your inner teenager! Please give the podcast a listen, I think they’re a great bookish podcast to support

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

Fiction with LGBTQ characters or themes, published for teens between 1990 and 2009.

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!

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

i am definitely not the first person to make this but i am dedicated to make this the most comprehensive

This is a list of (most) every book mentioned in the video game 'Tiny Bookshop'

syllabus for the eager scholars of rereading the revolution aka the books that shaped teenagers from 2005 to 2015 (based on the books read & discussed on the podcast by Kellie & Daphne – regular episodes, without bonus )

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

best sellers and other peak books from middle school era for those of us that aren't quite millennials but are also definitely not core gen z