Recs if you like The Raven Scholar...

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

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

a collection of autistic coded characters in fiction [ recommendations welcome! ]

fantasy murder mysteries yayy

I'm sure some of these are already on your TBR, so might as well add some more! Let me know if I am missing any of your favorites!

i love when animals get the chance to yap and/or narrate their own stories :)

recommendations welcome!

Books written in or featuring 2nd person POV

*SFF novels which use footnotes as a secondary narrative, paratext, or metacommentary on events in the main narrative.

A list of well-rated sci-fi and fantasy books featuring a woman who's 30 or older as the main character. I'm open to recommendations - I'd love this list to be long

this is for aesthetics only

f*ck misogyny, women write epic fantasy too

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

Here are some fantasy novels with black FMCs!

I'm including books where a character's presence is minimal and every character, conflict, and theme leads back to them. Their absence feels loud. Their past decisions shape the present.

Open for recommendations that meet these parameters 💓 I haven't read all the books in this list but feel fairly confident about their inclusion here, if you believe one of these doesn't fit feel free to discuss in the comments

books with covers that look like another

aka, novels for nerds 🫵🙂‍↕️

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

books with bisexual characters (even if they end up with the opposite sex THEY'RE STILL BI)

A woman's place is in the revolution. Featuring magical/gifted women who disobey the powers that be and rage against the machine.