Recs if you like The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)...

Fantasy nonfiction, or books about the nature of the fantastic (and the lives of some of its most ardent devotees) for those of us who'd like to leave the comfort of our Hobbit holes and brave the literary wilderness.

books about the imagination as limited/unlimited by racialization and colonization. suggestions welcome!

Ah yes, this ol' issue that has plagued librarians and bookstore clerks for decades.

And sometimes you find the right book, but... can you even call that shade blue?

Non-fiction books related to the humanities. Think: arts, language, culture and what we do with it. Mix of essays, memoirs, literary criticism, histories, and more.

“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

Science fiction and fantasy anthologies and story collections written and edited by BIPOC and/or focused on the experiences of BIPOC.

turns out when you wanna write a book, you have to read a lot of books first. wild.

(some of these i've already read, some are on my tbr, some are on my wishlist...)