All of Araki's work, including spin-off

Sick of characters making foolish choices just to push the plot along? Here's a list of smart and sensible protagonists who make intelligent decisions (though not always the right decisions!) based on suggestions from the community!

For when you’re In the mood to feel nostalgic about your Jewish upbringing!

-memoir -magical realism -author under 30 y/o -sea creature, character, title, or cover -nobel, booker, pulitzer prize winner -rainbow on cover -book with a tv/film adaption -coffee in the title -ren’s 3 colors on the cover -an authors debut -summer slasher -rens rec -2026 release -mountains on cover -climate change impact -sun in title -new-to-you author -one word title -translated lit -favorite author -plants or poison -banned -another country -any book

Official material supplementary to the Devil May Cry series of video games. Excludes the reboot.

pov: you’re nine years old and unboxing your mother’s old, dusty books and toys, which will soon become a core memory of your girlhood. ༺❀♡❀༻ coming-of-age feminine stories that are old-fashioned, wondrous and romantic.

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Fiction books that feature dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, and nonfiction books that discuss these amazing creatures and their field of study.

Marissa Meyer books, NOT Stephanie Meyer

Oh no! All the men turned into zombies! Or all the women fell into an eternal slumber! Or other similar sex & gender-based afflictions!

These stories range from feminist to sexist and from trans-inclusive to TERFy; reader beware. Inclusion on the list is not an endorsement.

Holidays are terrifying!!!

Stories about love, loneliness, and Hell

Nolan's Odyssey is an affront to literacy and all classical studies and I'm done with poop from a butt Greek myth adaptations/commentary (tbh I haven't read some of these yet tho...)

Fiction and nonfiction books about or inspired bg medieval Europe.

creaky door opening Insert Creepy Hand. creaky door closing

I need to do research for a story I'm writing, so I'm collecting the relevant books I find here :) I will feature a range of fiction and non-fiction books about the real history and the fun imaginary worlds of queer western books. Suggestions always welcome!

p.s. there may be non-queer westerns or history of that era that make their way on here for research sake, but the goal is ultimately to bring more gay cowboys (gender neutral) into the world

fictional bands, singers, songwriters and musicians!

I find most vampire-literature to be pretty gruesome (not in the way we want), but there are some brilliant exceptions!! a list of books with vampires that are not overly romanticized (dracula debatable)

I want to go through those