Sep 19, 2026, 1:34 AMgive me all your favourite #bookrecs! looking in particular for:
- romance
- fantasy
- queer
- magical realism
- sci-fi
- horror
- any combination of the above
- subgenres are also fine
- no ai covers or i'll blast you into the sun
#books #bookstodon
@deerfox House in the Cerulean Sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_in_the_Cerulean_Sea. Very very good. The sequel was also good but now quite as imho, and pretty heavy-handed with the moral (which I agreed with, but still).
@deerfox Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence and Craft Wars books tick almost all of those boxes, and come highly recommended by me.
@deerfox books I'm not seeing in this thread yet:
- the Murderbot series
- The Hands of the Emperor and sequels (lefty postapocalyptic fantasy featuring "old man" yaoi (aka two middle-aged politicians learning how to have relationships)
- The Raven Tower (also Ancillary Justice and sequels, but The Raven Tower is Ann Leckie's most fun book and one of her queerest)
- Akata Witch and sequels (really anything by Nnedi Okorafor, but these are my favorite)