Does anyone have any recommendations for fantasy books that have the same vibes as the video game Baldur's Gate 3. I want the same cosiness and amazing character development.

I watched this Tiktok video (link at the end of post) by an author named Nicole McKeon and it has made me realise that maybe it's not romance as a genre I don't like and choose not read, but it's because there is no yearning in the way she has described it in Pride and Prejudice (there are spoilers if you're reading this).

For those that are more well versed in romance, historical romance, I would love some recommendations to add to my TBR because I have honestly brushed off any romance recommendations because I felt that I was just not a "romantic" person or I find "romantic grand gestures" and "enemies to lovers" tropes too cheesy to be enjoyable. Maybe I'm just not reading the kinds of romance that I like.

For example, I like Rin and Nezha's relationship across the Poppy War trilogy, and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and Aragorn and Arwen in LOTR, and Elphaba and Fiyero in Wicked.

I'll link the video below, but know that you can click on the link and I've removed all tracking from the url, so you won't know my username and I won't know yours (X has watched your video). You can also find her directly her handle on Tiktok is: @nicolemckeon_author and as of today (9/12/26) it's the 1st video next to her pinned one.

Link:https://www.tiktok.com/@nicolemckeon_author/video/7581555898410159374

Edit: Thank you all for commenting and making recommendations! I will get around to responding to your engaging and well thought out comments soon. For those interested, I have created a public shelf for all the recommendations, so you can add them to you own collection.

loveislikebread's Romantic Endeavours bookshelf

Do we think I can read 25 books before the end of the year? I need tips to get reading faster cause Jesus 😭😭😭😭

Hi guys ☺️ sorry if this is a repeat post, I have searched with no success.

I am looking for fiction book reccs about athletes in water sports- so diving, swimming, rowing etc

I usually read romance and litfic ( both slow character studies and weird descent into madness vibes) and want quite a good portion to be “game play” if that’s what we can call it. It can be a romance or a story about obsession with some weirdness.

(I have read deep end and enjoyed it! Chlorine is on my tbr. Also love the movie the novice too for reference)

thanks in advance ☺️📚💦

It's that time of the year again! We do a secret santa/solstice swap in my department at my work. My person who I am secret santa to this year is OBSESSED with Bob's Burgers, which sadly I know absolutely nothing about. She also listed that her favorite hobby is reading on her info sheet. Does anyone out there know if there are Bob's Burgers tie-in books, or books with a similar vibe? I might be trying too hard to try to tie in her reading interest with the Bob's Burgers love, but I figured it might be worth a shot.

I listened to the new audio adaptation and just finished the brand new graphic novel!

The only bummer is the graphic novel is listed as an edition of the original book instead of its own separate book. I submitted this as a bug, but is there anything else I should try? I would like to track each of them on their own.

Thanks!

How many books do you read at the same time? And how many is to much? 🤣 Most of the time I read up to four books at a time, switching between them, depending on my mood. I must say that I almost never read two books of the same genre at the same time. Otherwise I will mix up stories. 🥲

Adding this on the forum since this book is in the 2025/2026 Winter Readalong challenge in case anyone's looking for a free copy since the book is in the public domain.

Ebook

• Fable App - download and read within the app
• Project Gutenberg - EPUB and Kindle downloads available for phone or e-reader side loading
• Google's Play Books App - download and read within the all
• Standard Ebooks - website similar to Project Gutenberg with downloable files you can side load. They take files from places like Project Gutenberg and reformat them for optimized reading on electronic devices. (Thanks for the info sweet commenter 🤓 I'm so excited to have another free book source!)
• Apple Books (thanks to info sent in by a nice commenter! 🥰)

Audiobook

• LibriVox is a free app that uses volunteer readers to record public domain books. Currently there are 3 different versions with single narrator, multi-narrator, and full cast options
• Shout-out to another kind commenter who says that the audiobook is available if you have Spotify premium!