Recs if you like Dark Matter...

For all the multitaskers on here (including myself): books featured on 2+ quests! Go get those badges everyone

you can enter a space. you are a regular guy, you can enter a room. you are a regular guy, you can do that transaction. you are a regular guy, you know how to answer the phone. you are a regular guy, you know what sleep is. you are a regular guy, you know what it means to be you.

all of these books have regular people as the protagonist doing all sorts of things, from kissing to killing!

as always, open to all suggestions!

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

Recs are from r horrorlit. I have not read them, but thought it would be a fun concept for you and me.

(let me know if any suggestions are egregious)

#backrooms #dreamy #weird #strange #surreal

books that fracture, remake, and defy the rules of time, space, memory, and idea.

this is for aesthetics only

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

Thrillers that will leave you shook.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

books about time slips, loops, travel, and alternate realities

Books that feature doppelgangers, doubles and other strange creatures that may want to take your place or impersonate you. Doppelgangers are hard to find, but they are even harder to get rid of...

hold on tight as we explore a myriad of alternate realities and multiverses

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

Books with short chapters!!! I started a challenge where I read a super long book a chapter-a-day and annotate it using a study guide! I found that annotating short chapters is super accessible and not overwhelming at all for me, so I wanted to share this list with anyone that wants to start over-analyzing their books :) I included a variety of stories because HOW you read is as important (if not more) than WHAT you read!!!!

This is for the classics, the old and new, the lesser known books, the short stories and the translated speculative fiction. Sci-fi could be argued to be one of the best and most expansive genres out there - it’s just a matter of finding the right book for you.

If there is a series, I will only be putting the first book unless they are unrelated.

dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

What are we willing to forget in order to survive? Do our memories shape who we are or does who we are shape how we remember things? How can we truly know if a memory is our own or if it has been planted by someone or something else? What happens when we can no longer rely on our memories?

If these kinds of questions make your heart flutter, then this list is for you. Spanning across multiple genres, these books are bound together by one common thread... memory (or the lack of it).

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

Books about traveling through time and dimensions and all the crazy implications