In October 2024 Reactor Magazine published a list of the most iconic speculative fiction works published in English in the 21st century, as voted by authors.

Medical horror and thriller novels to make your skin crawl🫣

Books focused on poverty, workers' rights, and the class war that the ultra wealthy is waging on the rest of us.

Stories about and inspired by Robin Hood, Maid Marian, and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest.

Books making the case for police abolition, focused on the nature of policing, its massive contribution to structural racism, the ineffectiveness of private prisons, and the impact the system has on our communities.

Books that are considered "weird girl" lit or have "unhinged" women.

This is a list of horror books written by women, as recommended by Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) in her book Feral and Hysterical. I will keep adding the books but it's going to take a while! Enjoy!

100 short books for when you need to break a reading slump or reach a reading goal.

so ready for the chaos

literally daydreaming

This is just a list of some of my favorite spooky books I've read lately that I've told/made some of my friends read so I thought I would make a little list here too. Spooky is a loose term.

essential leftist literature

A list of memoirs/autobiographies by and about women and their lives

what do you mean you're the tuna melt ilya made shane in heated rivalry 😭

The only criteria for this list is that it has a queer character and takes place near or on Halloween. Most books are horror, romance (both mild and spicy), mystery, or thriller. I haven't read most of these so I welcome suggestions. Happy gay Halloween!

Books on patriarchy, feminism, and the harm that misogyny and incel culture cause not just women, but everyone.

Fantasy romance recommendations to try as a last attempt at making peace with romantasy. I want fantasy plots, developed worlds, capable characters, and relationships that feel earned, not just tropes wearing a corset and carrying a sword. These are the books I’m trying before I accept that maybe the genre and I simply aren’t meant to be.

Feel free to give any of your own Fanmance recs.

Books covering Black history, Blackness, and anti-Blackness without the whitewashing and sanitization.

why choose when you can have all of them ?!

books that I always go back to when in need of comfort, in short, my all time favourites