Recs if you like Night Sky with Exit Wounds...

Books that illustrate some aspect of the immigrant experience - in fantasy, or in the real world; in childhood, or in old age; in history, or in the modern day. (work in progress - recs welcome!)

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

Short story, essays, comics, and/or poetry collections focusing on queer and trans folks. Please note: there are some collections listed where not every story is queer, but there is intersectionality, and since that is important, I have included them.

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

Queer books and books written by queer authors that are featured in the indie game "Tiny Bookshop", a cosy bookstore management life sim by the studio Neoludic

Queer (& Trans, Two-Spirit +) poets

In-progress/Updated over time Recommendations highly welcomed! Seeking intersectional works esp.

Single work per author listed (unless an anthology of multiple authors works)

my attempt at collecting queer books so our history doesn't become lost + to hopefully interest others within it too.

*please note I'd love recommendations on works i may have missed!!

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

what can i say? my boy has taste™. bonus points if you read the same as Nick and Charlie! We see them with 10 Things I Hate About Plato by Jack Maddox and Queer City by Peter Ackroyd!

poetry collections from queer poets <333

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

a sampling of some of today’s most quintessential poetic voices

Queer poetry to make you feel

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

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

For the first generation, half generation, and subsequent generations of Asian-American diaspora stuck in the middle of two cultures that feel so close yet so far. This list was my personal dive into those feelings.

An ever-evolving list of poetry collections by poets who made their name via the Slam community.

an ongoing list :)

poetry collections, short stories, and books <200pgs