Queerness + Water

Queer stories that have scenes with water, water as a theme, etc.

The intimacy of nude swimming, water encasing the body, the way a river flows and connects to other bodies of water, the life that lives in its depths, the fact we have not descovered much of the ocean which holds secrets we cannot reach…water is a queer thing, and a theme found continually in queer stories both minutely and wholly encompassing

Adult-audience fiction mostly, some mature YA

Recs welcome!

I'm in such a paranormal/supernatural mood rn and ik others might be so I've dropped books I've read and enjoyed. Examples = demons, vampires, witches, fae etc. Open to suggestions Warning: my taste is questionable and mixed

All the books by David Mitchell which have characters that connect and intertwine!

a bunch of warm cute YA romances that can be read in a few sittings

Steampunk is a genre typically set in the Victorian era, sometimes Edwardian area with elements of science fiction or fantasy. The key aspect of steampunk is the use of steam for innovations.

Sometimes the steampunk setting plays major roles in the story and plot, sometimes it is just the background setting.

This list is a work in progress of collecting steampunk novels

Being human is hard! This list is for shorter stories/books/novellas that can help ground us, offer connection, and remind us of what truly matters in this dumpster fire of a world.

Please share your recs in the comments! Let's keep this list growing!

The girlies are coming to the cottage. Or magical barn or whatever.

Short books from the weird girl genre that have less than 200 pages. Suggestions welcome!

You howl, I howl, we all howl for werewolves!

books with queer, sapphic, lesbian nuns amidst yearning, curiosity, worship, mayhem (and murder? who knows)

Every book or author mentioned in Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” in one convenient place

A list to deepen one’s understanding of cross-literary conversation from a 21st century author.

I created this list in the spirit of one of the central themes of the novel, that being that literature is a conversation through space and time. Writing is a kind of time travel, if only just to the future, and reading is one to the past.

Novels that contain art, artists or have art with in their story.

TBR

A list to keep track of books that I find myself frequently recommending to dog guardians who want to learn more about positive reinforcement training in order to have a better relationship with their dogs.

some reads i’ve read and currently want to read.