A collection of romances that are or feel historical and from a time long past, with elements of magic and fantasy!

Poetry books or collections that fit the weird girl lit vibe. Suggestions welcome!

I love any and all sentient machines and you will too.

Books with LGBTQIA+ themes that also feature ghosts, spirits, demons, or death-adjacent characters 🪦✨️

Join me on a cozy tour of the United States and beyond! Cozy mysteries are low stakes, high enjoyment, and an excellent palate cleanser. And reading a cozy mystery about surroundings you recognize or would like to explore just adds to the fun! This list features cozy mystery, first-in-series books set in Louisiana!

🌈Happy pride month everyone! Here's a fun list featuring LGBTQ+ story's.🌈💛🩷🩵❤️💜💙

Join me on a cozy tour of the United States and beyond! Cozy mysteries are low stakes, high enjoyment, and an excellent palate cleanser. And reading a cozy mystery about surroundings you recognize or would like to explore just adds to the fun! This list features cozy mystery, first-in-series books set in Kentucky!

Join me on a cozy tour of the United States and beyond! Cozy mysteries are low stakes, high enjoyment, and an excellent palate cleanser. And reading a cozy mystery about surroundings you recognize or would like to explore just adds to the fun! This list features cozy mystery, first-in-series books set in Kansas!

This is RF Kuang’s list of her recommended Top Ten great novels, as part of her contribution to the Guardian’s ranking of the 100 best novels of all time. This list is from Kuang’s Substack. (Links in comments)

Quests, heights and other space shenanigans

These books surprised me with how much I ended up liking them. I was expecting a typical gay romance novel with a suggestion of a fantasy world, but these delivered. Some contain monster-adjecent love interests, but I wouldn’t classify them as monster romance as the “monsters” are typical in the fantasy world.

What it says on the tin. Monster romance. At least one of the main characters in the relationship is a monster (usually, more than just a man with pointy ears). Unapologetically gay.

Queer romance novels that felt a little bit like bubblegum and sunshine and rainbows (but with like, a plot and some character development and stuff). Are these books a little silly? Did they take a few chapters for me to really get hooked? Did they make me stupidly grin at my kindle and make my husband wonder just what on earth I was reading? The answer to all of those is yes of course. And I wouldn’t want them any other way.

Manga isn't just for kids! These are titles intended for more mature audiences, including my personal recs and influential and bestselling titles that are available in English. Whether it's frank discussions of mental illness, abuse, LGBTQIA+ issues, violence, sexuality, horror or dark fantasy, these are manga that either originally ran in seinen (young adult men) or josei (young adult women) magazines, or I've otherwise broadly categorized through research as "not for (just) for kids."

A list of Alien Romance novels. Only the first in a series will be listed.

I own these books. Still need to read them.