Recs if you like The Rainfall Market...

Books that inspired or are similar to Studio Ghibli films

癒し系 | "healing" fiction | a genre of gentle, slice-of-life stories that focus on comfort and emotional restoration from ordinary human troubles, often featuring whimsical elements. This list will focus on works of Japanese and Korean literature, rather than manga or illustrative media, that fall into this genre.

dreamy, surreal, reflective texts 🤍 composed of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs

Cats, cats and more cats! Welcome to The Cat Love Club where we curl up with books featuring (suprise) cats, the perfect reading companions 🐈 List credit to my own cat because she is inspirational 😩✨️

A list of cozy fiction for when the world is heavy and the Book Club book is too much.

Books are cozy based on other lists or cute-munity reccs. Your milage may vary.

standalone fantasy under 400 pages

At the request of @moss-mylk 😊🫶 I will keep updating this list, and as always, recs are welcome.

Literature that features cats, coffee shops, food, books, and sometimes a bit of magic. Cozy and healing.

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

Short-ish (& sometimes spicy) standalone speculative stories.

a non-exhaustive list.

Books that have significant cats, because what bookworm doesn't enjoy cats? (For series I have only included book 1.)

Translated fiction

Third places or "good great places" are social surroundings and gathering spots for relaxation or recreation that are separate from your home (first place) and work (second place). Think cafés, bookshops, parks, community centers. Recommendations welcome! 🥰

All are very welcome to this list, but I've geared it towards my fellow neurospicy folk with busy Brains who need some high dopamine sparks from their books...and for it to not take forever for us to read a book and we lose our interest/hyperfocus 🤣🥰

Based on the HRCYED 3.0 prompt! Books with weather or natural disasters/phenomena on the cover (at least one version), including: rain, storms, lightning, clouds, snowfall, fog, sunshine, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis.

Not an exhaustive list - feel free to suggest titles! I tried to keep it more focused on books that fit the prompt but would be harder to find (i.e. ones that don't have the key words in the title).

Mostly Korean and Japanese translated works that have that cozy, slice of life vibes.

Cozy and heartwarming reads - literary hug on a chilly day <3