A compilation of fiction and nonfiction books where the main character/s sets out on a journey, leading to moments of meditation, introspection, meandering walks through the memory, conflicts with both the self, the path, and others, and ultimately: change, for both the characters and the reader. In these novels, the journey is more important than the destination.

Recommendations are welcome!

We are nature, even if we try to forget it. These books are about our relationship with nature and how we can change it for the better.

Theory as a powerful tool to understand our world, challenge and dismantle hegemonic systems of harm is not a novel idea. These books, however, drive this point home and might provide you with a powerful and useful lens to re-view the world and challenge existing knowledge systems. These are essential books if we want to decolonise individual and collective knowledge production!

books recommended by ateez’s members in lives or interviews

More than just werewolves and vamps, let’s list all non-human POVs! And I’m talking main characters, at least 50% from their POV

Books I've read and liked after hearing them features on the CreepCast Podcast.

New Jersey rock band My Chemical Romance was formed in the wake of 9/11, and quickly became one of the most influential rock artists of the early 2000s. This list contains books written by or mentioning the group, as well as some titles that the members have referenced over the years.

books that feel like you are driving 60 mph down a country road on a gloomy (maybe even rainy!) fall day feeling complicated, nostalgic, and a little messed up inside 🍂🐛

(posting because i am TOOO excited about the release of noah's new album!!)

Sometimes they have questionable morals, sometimes they are irredeemable, but no matter what these princes (and technically kings) suck!

Disclaimer: I am not Pacific Islander, but we should all strive to read more Pasifika authors!

The grouping of Pasifika and Asian communities has a complex history. And because of this grouping, Pasifika authors are largely underrepresented.

Check out Pacific Islanders in Publishing (I cannot figure out how to hyperlink, sorry) for more recs!

I have not read all of the books on this list, so please let me know if any are not fit for this list!

Suggestions are always welcome!

According to the ACNUR, close to 7,9 million Venezuelans have emigrated as of May 2025. This is a collection of fiction and nonfiction novels, essays, interviews, poems, and anthologies from Venezuelan authors relating to the experience of the Venezuelan Migrant and Immigrant —their fears, their melancholies, their joys, their perpetual two-naturedness— and of their search for home.

Recommendations are welcome.

sci-fi that involves robots learning how to be human (and teaching humans how to be human while they're at it)

Big vibes and big hair cover art books. (It's not a f*ckin 'cloud bob' Vogue).

Science fiction novels that utilize video gaming in some way. Don't die! You don't get an extra life (or maybe you do?)

Barbie's Dream House is sentient and it wants you dead!

Nonfiction books and essays about visual art and how it functions as a mirror to ourselves. They discuss art's meaning, its interpretations, how art changes through our eyes, the effects of systematic discrimination upon how art is made and consumed, and help to develop better, more critical, and more introspective ways of looking at art and our museums.

Recommendations welcome!