Recs if you like Under the Whispering Door...

Standalone fantasy books that won't make you invest your life in a dozen installments

books whose main characters are older and disillusioned with life and go on a little adventure that melts their hearts (and heals yours)

books in which Death, or a god of Death, or the Grim Reaper (or a Grim Reaper), is personified. This list will NOT include the works of Neil Gaiman (ew)

For when things seem hopeless. We can always try again and again ❤️

This list is a community project, I asked in the club and received multiple suggestions which I then added onto a list: fiction and nonfiction, fantasy, contemporary, sci-fi, the main theme is just hope. Some people said their recommendation might not fit very well but I added it anyways.

Also, in the og post, I mentioned The Good Place and if people have recommendations tending to that, so some books are related to that.

fiction books taking place after death

this is for aesthetics only

a mix of romance and romance-adjacent books starring bisexual main characters.

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

Exactly what it says on the tin: queer stories that also have ghosts.

IN PROGRESS

romance that resonates with me as a non-binary queer person who is AuDHD

created after many struggles finding romance novels that i found palatable. books are not necessarily queer nor feature explicitly AuDHD characters, they just have storylines & romances that tickle my brain

fiction books centered around characters processing grief 🦋

Cozy and magical, books you can curl up with and read about magical worlds, great storytelling, and otherworldly romance

In which a main character sees ghosts 👻

The top 100 books of the 2020’s as voted on by Goodreads members

How many have you read?

The top 5 have switched order, they should be: 5) I’m Glad My Mom Died 4) The Midnight Library 3) The House in the Cerulean Sea 2) Project Hail Mary

1. Addie LaRue

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Tall, dark and morally ambiguous has its time and place okay? But sometimes we just need the love of a sweet, sweet man who would never harm us 😌

Edited to add: do you KNOW how hard it was to find even five books?? I had to scroll back through my finished reads all the way to 2021! 😂 either I have Tall, dark and morally ambiguous taste, or it’s a rare trope. Either way, now starts my mission to seek them out. This will be a mix of genres, m/f m/m and possibly trigger warnings.

my reading interests for some LGBTQ sci fi, fantasy, and horror books and series

Channeling my inner Dom Toretto. Whoever said you can’t choose your family never experienced the joy of the found family trope!

Books with friendships so strong, they might as well be family. Some fun, some bittersweet, some toxic.

This list is incomplete, I’ve just added books that I have read and know are found family so please please please give me recommendations!