aka my favorite books on the planet

Collection of all kinds of Indian novels- contemporary, fantasy, historical, mythological included. Any recommendations would be much appreciated!

Books written from the POV of characters in or imminently bound for psychiatric institutions.

For those who enjoy literary prose, these are some well written fantasy romances that are literary fiction adjacent / upmarket

Antarctica, Patagonia, North Pole, Alaska, Canada, anywhere in the mountains, wintertime, etc. (fiction and nonfiction)

All kinds of Queer Fantasy by BIPOC authors.

Recommendations and Requests welcome

Getting a bit fed up of the amount of gay men written by straight women. Please recommend me more books!

Book of various genres, but due to the topic I guess they'll be mostly horrors and thrillers, where the main characters go on an innocent writer's retreat and it doesn't end up as expected. DISCLAIMER: I haven't read all books on this list, but I'm really eager to do so. If you have any correction about a book which doesn't really contain a writer's retreat or suggestions of more books that do, please comment it. The list will be updated whenever I find something or something is suggested.

Books about queer people or written by queer people. Our voices will be heard.

Recommendations and requests welcome

Pain - a four letter word that yet describes nothing. These books try to get to the root of what pain is and where it comes from and how humans have tried to treat it. From chronic illness, disability to medication. All nonfiction regarding health, women's health, mental health, painkillers, opium, and autoimmune diseases. This list is NOT about finding healing (since that is a very individual journey) but how to be seen and understood and how to find the words to describe pain and chronic disease.

A list of poetry collections by trans and non-binary authors.

This includes gender fluid, agender, two-spirit, and any other gender identities outside of the binary labels.

See my trans Rights readathon suggestions masterlist for more trans reads! 🏳️‍⚧️

(Under construction 🏗 🚧 many more books to be added! Suggestions welcome!)

Books featuring twins, identical or otherwise. Feel free to share recs to add to the list

Poets from the Romantic Era that used the Volksliedton/Volksliedstrophe for their poetry. For a poem to be classified as Volksliedstrophe they need to have the following four characteristics:

• iambic trimeter with any desired number of unstressed syllables (-> Senkungsfreiheit)
• four lines per verse
• alternating cadences
• crossed rhyme (abab) or half crossed rhyme (xaxa) If not all characteristics are met, the poem is categorised as Volksliedton.

Clues, lies, and the quiet feeling that something isn’t right. No one ever thinks it’s that serious—until it is.

Aside from the obvious recommendation of all the books written about the game itself, these are books that gave me similar vibes to when I played the games. Others are here because they reminded me of a romanceable character, or because they had similar character arcs!