Reality is overrated! These surreal and absurd fiction books remove logic to reveal their truths. Here the impossible is inevitable, the strange is necessary, and Kafkaesque is only the beginning.

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.

Embracing the body and reclaiming otherness, these books use horror to redefine notions of womanhood and monstrosity.

Classics to modern nonfiction, all under 300 pages.

To be known and to know others.

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

Gather in these hallowed halls

Modern retellings of iconic, ancient tales

Contemporary Literary Fiction where nothing out of the ordinary happens but the characters’ inner lives are rich, complicated, and layered.

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

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.