A list of post apocalyptic literature-- not focusing on the ending, or the rebuilding, but imagining the final moments of a world.

This list needs a little extra work before I'm happy with it, suggestions welcome!

Inspired by the Witch movie!

Books featuring a day in the life for characters in a high-stress, high-stakes environment where eyes always watch you and trust is hard to come by. Some thrillers, but largely focused on built and established worlds that can't be changed by one person. Fantasy welcome!

(This is my first curated list, and suggestions are welcome)

M/M hurt/comfort books - ones I’ve read plus ones recommended to me in the r/MM_RomanceBooks subreddit. Most of these have pretty intense hurt because that’s my jam

Recent favorites, and I will continue to add as I read on

Books featuring magical apples or apple orchards

All the books over the years that have been successful in pulling me out of horrendous reading slumps (tried and tested).

Some of these are the first books of a series, good for if you want to keep reading them.

Since I loved YA dystopian in the 2010s, I wanted to gather all the 2020s books coming out in this new trend of romantic dystopia (recommendations welcome!)

If dad-jokes were book titles, it would be pretty punny.

Under construction

Romances centered around video game players and the video game industry.

I created this list when I was looking for Irish literature recs and was surprised to see it didn’t already exist! Recommendations are extremely welcomed in the comments!

This list contains horror books that feature a feline companion. Please look up content warnings for these horror titles if needed.

And we're not talkin the Doublemint Gum jingle here.

We're talkin, they've got one 🧍 and two 🍆🍆, and are enthused to use 'em.

These are books I have personally read and will add to this list as I make my way through my TBR. I'm a scientist myself so subject matter definitely has some bias.

Books where one partner orally pleasures or feeds from the other partner during menstruation. Periods should NOT be treated as a taboo topic, and I'm fully on board with destigmatizing them through smut (and a bit of horror).

This list is heavily skewed toward vampires and vampiric beings (obvi), but any monsters (including psychopathic humans) are welcome!

This list contains fantasy books that feature a cat or two or twenty. Titles on this list are best read with a furry companion by your side.

One of my favorite newly-discovered tropes is that of the reluctant hero. They're not a chosen one, not good at everything right away, don't want to be saving the world. They're dragged kicking and screaming on adventures, complaining about it the whole way, and maybe even suck at the job they have to do at first.

Only including the first book in a series unless they're standalones. Suggestions for all fiction genres welcome!