Kind, beefy, and bumbling, these male love interests are sweet and maybe a tad spicy.

To be known and to know others.

Step right up and enjoy these circus and traveling carnival themed reads.

Competitions for power, notoriety, love, or maybe even your life.

A collection of pilot books for monster romance series.

Looking for a little holiday magic? These stories deliver festive cheer and love connections.

A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.

Fictional books that feel like a warm hug, featuring magic and whimsy and perfectly happy endings. These are lower on stakes and higher on good vibes!

Books that made it on the big screen

The four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga + several other collections published posthumously.

A collection of Middle Grade books with Neurodivergent MCs (includes Autistic, ADHD, OCD, Synesthetic, and Dyslexic perspectives)

An assorted collection of Middle Grade books with LGBTQ+ main characters.

All of her groundbreaking works, exploring themes of Afrofuturism, power, and survival.

Fated Mates is a romance novel podcast and recommendation machine from novelist Sarah MacLean and critic/editor Jen Prokop. Among the hundreds of episodes and thousands of recommendations are 76 (and counting!) deep dives, each devoted to a single book or series. Pick a book, read it, then listen to the episode (organized <b><a href='https://fatedmates.net/book-club'>here</a></b>) for an expansive reading experience.

The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three.

From Greco-Roman to Egyptian to Norse mythology, these Gods just can't stop meddling in our modern day world.

For when you're craving a good sapphic story, a collection of books that feature sapphic characters and/or a sapphic romance.

Magical empires, far-flung galaxies, robotic dystopias, haunted academies—queerness belongs in every world.