fiction with footnotes
aka, novels for nerds 🫵🙂↕️
created by moss-mylk
last updated August, 2026
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Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah!
I’ll happily take recommendations btw!!
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow - the first fiction i've personally read with footnotes and it's such a cool experience 😎
not to keep bringing up Mad Sisters of Esi but... Mad Sisters of Esi
HAHAHAh this made me grin. Please bring it up as much as you want. Adding it now! Also this makes me want to read it all the more!
Ahh what a cool idea! The Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud uses tons of footnotes haha
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Red Winter by Cameron Suilivan!
I love that I've fully read or want to read 2/3 of this list already.
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff also fits this theme! I love it!
Not at all the vibe of anything else on this list, but Daisy Haites has footnotes 😭
Ill have a look at these soon i promise <3
Saint Death's Daughter (and the sequel, Saint Death's Herald) by CSE Cooney!
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons!!!
Most if not all discworld books by Terry Pratchett have footnotes, but adding 41 books may be overkill 😂
