This is going to be a long list eventually

best recommended pulls from my nonfiction shelf

when you love horror and hate half the genre

Soccer is a focus but love is the baseline! Gays and queers playing this beautiful sport.

my (personal & picky) list of literary retellings of classic novels! all have something to add to the original: a new perspective, or new theme that builds on the original

Books written by people born under the sign Aquarius (between January 20-February 18). These are the most well known and famous examples I could find, which include some of the most creative, innovative and intellectual literary minds of our time. 🌀

Horror and horror-adjacent stories with queer themes/characters/pairings written by authors of color, across sub-genres and age groups. 🔞

Recommendations welcome!

✦ I have not read all of these books - if you notice anything that seems to be mis-labeled/mis-placed on this list, please let me know! ✦

Popular science that broadens your understanding of the complex world of biology.

For the Fae and Flame Society book club, often our summer '26 book bingo includes a square for 'fruit on cover'. Here is a list of books as such!

For the Fae and Flame Society book club, often our summer '26 book bingo includes a square for 'Author with your Zodiac,' and I am a leo, so thats all i am looking for. Here is a list of books as such!

books I started in 2026

on a quest to diversify my bookshelf

Works published in 2024

Best Novel Nominees: 🏆🌌 Network Effect • Black Sun • The City We Became • Harrow the Ninth • Piranesi • The Relentless Moon

Best Novella Nominees: 🏆 The Empress of Salt and Fortune • Come Tumbling Down • Finna • 🌌 Ring Shout • 🌕 Riot Baby • Upright Women Wanted

Legend: 🏆 Winner • 🌌 Nebula Award Winner • 🌕 World Fantasy Award Winner

It's been a few years since I "rediscovered" reading as an adult and I really want to try reading classics for fun. Mostly, I want to get to a place where reading classics doesn't make my brain feel like it's overheating.

This list features one book from each country in South America. I put the focus on women authors, with additional queer and BIPoC representation throughout. Happy reading!

The Grandmothers of the Sad Girl

HR for the newbie

Not a list of dark academia books, but a list of books a character in a dark academia book would love. The melancholy, the classics, the literary, the slightly eerie.

some narrators more reliable than others

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