Recs if you like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society...

Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!

We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome 🤗

Books don't just sit on shelves and these novels show it. Each one is its own love letter to the importance of stories in every corner of human life, built on the belief that the right book, in the right hands, at the right moment, can change the entire shape of a life. (Always taking recommendations!)

Books about food, either non-fiction or foodie fiction

Books that remind me of the game Stardew Valley! Coziness, cottage-core, and a hint of magic.

Books that include recipes from the stories

When character reads or listens to another’s person’s story or is told a longer tale about something which then affects that character in some way. The character needs to comment on reading or listening to the story and it needs to affect their action. The nested story needs to be significantly long. Bonus if there is multiple nested narratives. Epistolary novels where multiple character write to each other also count. (This list is still work in progress, suggestions welcome.)

Exactly what it says on the tin

Come snoop on people's diaries and correspondence with me 🙈 fiction and non-fiction

Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!

(going to only add the first book in a series)

do you remember The Wiggles song “Fruit Salad”? or maybe “I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas”? what about any song from Veggietales like “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”?

this list is freshly harvested and full of books with (specifically) fruits and veggies in the title or on the cover 🌶️🥭🍒🍋🫑🥕🍓🍑🥝🫐🍇🥒

some are more appropriate than others 😈

as always, please feel free to suggest any books I missed!

"a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse other kinds of fictional document with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered to include novels composed of documents even if they do not include letters at all. More recently, epistolaries may include electronic documents such as recordings and radio, blog posts, and emails."

if you can eats it, it goes on the list

These are books about dms/emails or books told largely in dm/email/letter format. Recommendations welcomed.

This list features books with nontraditional forms, structures, and narratives.

Feel free to recommend more! :)

Epistolary delivery: Books told in the form of letters, journals, diaries, texts, logs, etc...

WWII historical fiction. From everyday bravery to remarkable heroism, these characters and their stories remind us that everyone can be brave.

Credit to @startripper for the title (I don’t listen to the smiths :(

Books about books. Books about authors/writers. Books about readers…but not like Annie Wilkes from Misery. Just non-psychotic readers. This list doesn’t include libraries or bookstores, because those are totally different types of pizza.

This list is about fictional families which break your heart, make your heart and reveal parts of you, you never knew existed. Its about love and dysfunction and how they often come packaged together.

Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.