Recs if you like Villette...

literary (or literary-leaning) fiction focused specifically on isolation, disconnection, loneliness — and what they teach us about life and humanity.

ft. recs from the community!

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

classic literature only written by women, because why would a man be there??

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

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

All of the works of the Brontë Sisters

book recs for blue readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

Something compelling to make you think

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

little tbr of quintessential gothic works, all written by women authors! (still updating)

I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.

Women caught in haunted houses, shadowed marriages, and dark obsessions.

the novels and poetry by Charlotte, Anne, and Emily; includes the novel The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Slowly curated list that features texts by authors mentioned in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'.

For all the nerds who want to connect with the past

classic literature that feels like running through a field in a long skirt or writing ink-stained poems at midnight, elegant prose, moral themes, academia, mostly from between 1500-1900 (a few exceptions)

My books are my babies, some are more precious than others If I give one to you, that means I think highly of you wink