From stick handling to body checks, these adult hockey romances are hot enough to melt the ice.

Books that focus on the unique complexity of queer & trans lives & relationships. Tragic stories that center queer & trans realities.

Achillean books for every taste; this is a collection of books featuring mlm characters, relationships, and/or stories spanning different sub-genres.

They look human...but are they? A collection of manga involving monsters who appear to be human. Only the first volume in a series is included.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Plants! Celebrate the leafy, fungal, flowering world with these non-fiction titles. Through science writing, memoirs, and essays (and more!), learn about the inner workings of plants, explore the interconnected nature of nature, and discover just how vast the mycelium network really is.

Limited Time Quest (Jan-June 2026): seven stunning debuts from Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint* to start the year. Read along with us as we tackle one each month with the chance to win early Giveaway copies through the duration of the Quest! Check the pinned post in the forum to learn more about the selections.*in partnership with SimonBooks

A true knight never turns down a Quest. Explore Medieval Europe with these genre-spanning books and earn your grail

stories that break convention and will convince you that maybe we don't need punctuation like we think we do

I like my castles cold, my moors windswept, and my heroines swooning.

Do you suffer from frequent wanderlust, longing to explore cultures & history across time? Here is your ticket: tour the world with fantasy inspired by various world myths. For series, only the first book is featured.

Creepy crawling vines, sentient mushrooms, or a killer forest; no matter what shape they take, plants and fungi play a main part in these horror novels.

Outcasts, rebels, and misfits unite in magical worlds. Here, strangers become chosen family, facing every challenge together and proving that home is found, not given.

This isn't Disney's little mermaid! A collection of horror, dark fiction, and gothic romances featuring mermaids.

In the words of Leonard Cohen, "poetry is just the evidence of life...if your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." This quest is for those who love poetry, hate poetry, want to write it, read it, or perhaps have nothing to do with it (or all of that at once)!

A selection of classic crime and mystery novels covering a variety of eras and authors. For especially prolific and well-known authors, only their canon works are included.

They’re bound by flame, united by flight. These books all have dragon riders as part of the plot. Only the first of a series will appear.

From psychedelic fever dreams to things that go bump in the night: all things queer and scary.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Whether you love to hate or hate to love 'em, these literary bad girls are anything but well-behaved. *Disclaimer: we do not literally support the illegal and oft cruel behavior of these protagonists (usually); we support the authors bold enough to write them (always).

Intersectional feminist texts that explore the complexity of feminism, centering voices from communities that are often the most excluded.