Does anyone else have a list of List ideas? I tend to be very much in my own world when it comes to reading books, so my ideas of lists don’t really go anywhere. 😬

I just thought it’d be nice to share some ideas of lists that I’ve been sitting on but would love to read more about:

• Waste Disposal is the main character (fiction) - Books that focus on waste disposal and how we’re not watching the items we consume. (Inspired by Gachiakuta and the influence of Japanese cultures 🔗 Tsukumogami in its storyline.)
• Pick your mount. No, not that one - Books with unusual mounts, not including dragons or horses. (Inspired by The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor series where the MC rides a bull.)
• When I Stopped Singing - a list of books where the main character just doesn’t want to talk anymore, I guess voluntary mutism or took a vow of silence (Personal interest)
• Magic is Accessibility - a list of books where the world has magic and accessibility, people can be magic, disabled and not want to be “fixed.” (Inspired by the disability reps in the Witch Hat Atelier mangas by Kamome Shirahama)
• Ripping at the Roots - books about people fixing their community, I think kind of like being a terrible person in their youth, or having left without mending old relationships. Basically about rebuilding burnt bridges. (Inspired by my last reread of The Losers by Harley Laroux.)

I view Lists as a group project (but if people don’t want it to be, it doesn’t have to be), so I’m putting these out there incase people have recs.

So, do you have any ideas for lists? If you’ve already put out the list, what inspired it?

I was doomscrolling, like one does, and I came across a random reel that brought back so many memories. I loved flipped as a kid. Something about the spirit of Julie spoke to me. The story was also so sweet and to see a reel about in this economy? But get this, I found out TODAY that it was a book as well. How could I have missed it? I can't wait to read it.

Has this ever happened to you? Have you watched the movie? What did you think of the movie? And Bryce? Gods, I hated Bryce as a kid. But the crush I had on Matt and Mark, Julie's brothers. I would sing their short song all the timeeee.

I think it may have been the beginning of "She fell first but he fell harder" trope. Do you think you have any recommendations that remind you of that trope and of Flipped?