Recs if you like What Kind of Paradise...

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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!

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 💕

Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.

bildungsroman if ya nasty

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Books that have online communities, traditional lifestyles, unlikeable characters and everything that can go wrong when you mash them up together.

All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

(Inspired by @erintripsey s lists on audiobook narrators)

Helen Laser was one of the audiobook narrators that truly made me fall in love with audiobooks, her narration of Yellowface was fantastic and honestly one of the first times I got audiobooks

I honestly don‘t know how to describe her voice except that it scratches that itch in my brain

Books that are set in each of the 50 states.