no matter what happens, there will be books with neon-text-on-a-dark-background covers and they will be thrillers.

a collection of Indie Fantasy, my beloveds 🫶🏼

“Make your statement, face your fear.”

A selection of books with vibes similar to the themes, narrative format, and generally eeriness of our favorite horror pod. Recommendations always welcome!

Give me more badass FMCs who don’t wait for someone else to save the day!! Quick with a blade, quicker with a comeback, these bad b*tches take on monsters, villains, and terrible life choices with equal ferocity. If you’re looking for women who break rules, break hearts, and occasionally break a few bones, this is the ultimate list for you.

I primarily get books from the library. These are books I would spend money on to read again for the first time.

What if you looked at the city and the city looked back?

because why should you have to choose between two (or more) wolves to have inside of you? this list contains books about werewolves/wolf shifters and not having to choose between them!

as always, taking any and all suggestions!

Books published by the queer, indie, speculative fiction press Neon Hemlock

Fiction featuring humans turning into birds — and vice versa.

This is not a shapeshifter list.

A curated collection of mostly Regency romances where propriety is optional and virtue… negotiable. Expect rakish dukes, sharp-tongued heroines, scandalous encounters, and at least a few decisions that would make any proper chaperone faint...

Fiction featuring humans turning into bugs — and vice versa.

This is not a shapeshifter list.

Fiction featuring humans turning into dogs* wild and domestic (animals including dogs, coyotes, wolves, foxes, jackals) — and vice versa.

This is not a werewolf or shapeshifter list.

A good PNR series is like one of those desserts you always find more room for. Do you already have shelves full of lusty vampires, werewolves, witches, demons, ghosts, and fae? Yes, duh! But that doesn't mean there's not always room to add another, and another...

The inaugural James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize winners have been announced! A literary prize celebrating debut authors, hand-selected by independent booksellers, these five titles deserve a spot on your TBR. According to Bookshop.org, "The award honors outstanding full-length debut books published in the United States within the past 12 months. All nominations and selections are made by booksellers working in qualifying independent bookstores."

you know when you’ve got a few miles ahead of you but you’re taking it easy (or easy-ish) so your pump up playlist is not the vibe? yeah, that’s when you should try out these audiobooks 😌

genres that I love to run to:

• nonfiction that’s not too deep and keeps it interesting
• lots of action
• horror (ya know… something to run from)
• incredible narrators

genres I avoid while running (but love otherwise):

• very spicy romance
• anything deeply heartbreaking

happy running (or anything)!

A civil servant's fave Spec Fic featuring politicians, rulers and government workers

Books don't just sit on shelves and these novels show it. Each one is its own love letter to the importance of stories in every corner of human life, built on the belief that the right book, in the right hands, at the right moment, can change the entire shape of a life. (Always taking recommendations!)

Marine biology books for all ages!

Not all collections hold things you can touch. This one holds worlds that breathe, selves that dissolve, and realities that refuse to hold their shape. These are the fictions that live on the edge of what language can contain - and sometimes just beyond. Admission is free, through entry requires a signed waiver: the curator cannot be held responsible for any transformations that occur upon your exit. We welcome specimen recommendations!