All my favorite fantasy books

High Fantasy & Low-stakes fantasy

A list of books LarryReads has been sent. A lot of small indie authors. More books to be added.

some of these I cannot see the cover or hear about the book without hearing the song lyrics 😂

not necessarily recommendations, just a compilation

love wins and messy lesbians

My favorite 5-star reads of books released in 2025

My favorite 5-star reads of books released in 2026

Books that teach you to distrust big government and institutions that someone should have made me read in high school but didn't.

Top 100 books of the 21st century

Stories told by a character who isn't the protagonist - the definition of protagonist varies. Also, a partial exploration of side characters as narrators (what do they notice? What do they miss? What do they do for the story? And what do they do not do?)

Teenagers, life, love, joy and pain

Books and manga that contain at least one character about whom I have, at some point, expressed the desire to study them in a lab. Varying degrees of studyability within.

Because of the lesbian ex-tradCath that I am, here's a list of mostly fiction books uniting Christianity in its various forms with queerness, where both are large themes. Disclaimer: I have not read all of the books here, so if there are some that have been mislabeled, please tell me! Suggestions are always welcome!

Books where the protagonist gets to go back and try again (companion to my Time Loops list)