Recs if you like Cursed Bread...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

Fiction about hyperspecific stuff that'll get you lost in Wikipedia if you're not careful — the more niche the better. Suggestions welcome, but to make the cut, there MUST be a corresponding Wikipedia page!! Links in the comments to get you started.

Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉

(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)

Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.

Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.

books with a painting/artwork on the cover see the pinned comment for artwork details suggestions welcome 🚧this list is under construction🚧

in which nothing happens or a lot happens, but sometimes it feels like nothing at all.

also known as: lit fic that feels like a dream or a nightmare or a hallucination.

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.

Weird, mostly girlys going through different unique life adventures. Supporting girlies (the girls, theys and thems) rights and wrongs.  Regina George screaming down her hallway into her room hunting down the Burn Book

Some are a mix of different genres, but all have a definite case of unreliable narrator, which makes everything very interesting.

litfic featuring strange premises + weirdo characters

Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013

books that i finished and all i could think was “i hate men.” these books are female centered stories about women who have suffered at the hand of a man or a patriarchal society.

2019-2026

books with any sort of food in the title 🍕🍟🍔🌭🥪🌮🫕🫔🥙🧆🥚

surreal, unsettling, undefinable but whimsical

Gross girls, girlhood, and the like

filth-ridden characters, caked in grime and bodily fluids, engaging in literally dirty or nauseating acts

my personal literary fiction tbr list