Recs if you like The Blind Assassin...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
“tiny bookshop” books 📚
books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”
Canada, eh!
Canadian authors writing books set in Canada.
100 Gothic Classics
A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.
✨#1 Favorite Book✨ Submissions
Submissions submissively submitted by the Pagebound users forced to choose their ONE favorite book under manufactured duress.
girls just want to have rights
Feminine rage, female empowerment, emotional validation. Women supporting women. Men being men. Feminism. Feminist reads.
booker prize winners 1969- present
Literary Fiction that reads almost like poetry
Works of literary fiction that blur the line between poetry and prose.
The Booker Prize Shortlist & Winners 1969-2000
For people who are interested in a long-term challenge to read all of the Booker Prize longlisted books, but before 2001 there were only shortlisted books so I am going to separate these into two different lists. Please see the pinned comment for the 2001+ companion list link and the winners for each year!
Tiny Fables
All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.
Science Fiction Between the Lines
The list of books which are science fiction but not exactly.
The "science" part is not that important. Technology, space ships or how to pursue the time travel - obsolete. Truly important are the questions about the human condition.
Hopefully, I'll expand it with time.
Open for recommendations😊
Booker Prize Shortlist 1969-present
Every book shortlisted for the Booker Prize since it was founded in 1969, under its current title and previous names, the Man Booker Prize and the Booker Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!
Graphic Design Diarrhea-Free Covers
Do you, like me, often find yourself looking at a book cover thinking, "Y'all are doing waaay too much." Why are book covers so dang extra nowadays? Here are some books that appeal to me simply because they have covers that don't look like a 19 year old with Photoshop barfed a bunch of design elements on a book and called it a day. Some I've read, some are on the TBR. And to all the authors and publishers out there, K.I.S.S.
Ergodic Literature
A list of ergodic books I've come across through time. Those books that go beyond words on a page and contain special elements and features that make reading a whole new experience!
Women's Prize for Fiction, the entire longlist!
Every book longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction since it was founded in 1996, under its current title and previous sponsored titles of 'Orange' and 'Baileys' Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!
tiny bookshop
(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
Two stories for the price of one!
I asked Pagebound for books with a book inside the book. The following list is made up out of those recommendations. In some of them the MC is writing or reading a book that you also get to read, in others it is short stories or oral histories. In all of them, you get more then just one story. I have not read all of these books. I am open to more recommendations.
NB The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz is often referenced is his other works and only later was actually written.
40 Books Chosen by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world.
Booker Prize Winners
These are mostly in order by year
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