books featuring characters displaced from homelands, stripped of their culture or longing for home. open to recs!

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language

For many (if not most) people, the term 'mother' feels deeply gendered and carries with it the weight of expectations. However, the queer community has long played with the meaning of 'mother,' from the mothers of ballroom culture to queer family-making to the intersection of mothering and trans parenthood. Mother is, after all, an identity like any other and as such it can be stretched, played with, inverted, and examined.

Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times. It aims to find the book that has the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues

Hungry for more? Try these nonfiction books about food!

The Cundill History Prize is an annual Canadian literary award for history writing in English. The prize is awarded to an author whose book, published in the past year, demonstrates "historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal".

AAPI authors and books I adore

Fiction has always been where truth hides. Across horror, thriller, literary fiction, fantasy & mystery every book on this list has something to say about power, who holds it, who destroys it, and how it reproduces itself.

The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. The award goes back to 1948 with two winners every year, so I'm adding them starting with the most recent.

These are books that handle the topic of psychosis in a realistic way, without relying on damaging stereotypes or using mental illness for shock value

A list of recommended soccer/football books.

queer books that have blue covers and deal with themes of loss/grief/depression/heartbreack/etc., or, occasionally, the main character is just not having a great time

this list is unfortunately still very white, cis and male-centered. I want to have more diverse representation, please feel free to leave suggestions :)

also: the history of sound is a collection of short stories, most of which aren’t queer. I’m thinking of maybe taking it off the list, once it is a little longer

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Series that follow the same detective/detectives solving different mysteries each book. Set in historical times, mostly the 1800s. Typically with a romance subplot 💕

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romance that resonates with me as a non-binary queer person who is AuDHD

created after many struggles finding romance novels that i found palatable. books are not necessarily queer nor feature explicitly AuDHD characters, they just have storylines & romances that tickle my brain