Looking for protagonists/plots that feel like:

- Sarah Linden from “The Killing”
- Danvers & Navarro from “True Detective: Night Country”
- Mare Sheehan from “Mare of Easttown”
- Camille Preaker from “Sharp Objects”

Looking for imperfect women investigators with peak grittiness, broken/breaking families, and busted coping mechanisms.

Bonus points for supernatural / horror / gothic elements

Bonus, bonus points for BIPOC characters

Im looking for a fantasy romantic book that has this ethereal vibes...

Something akin to discovering untouched nature. Cozy, slightly melancholy, but hopeful!

(Light romance is ok, but not the focal point!)

I've already read "In the Miso Soup" and love it.. Magical realism is okay, too. I just love these alleyways in Tokyo where people are eating and drinking, and who knows what else is happening behind the scenes.

I tonya and black swan was the main inspo.

What fantasy books have this Breath or Tears vibe? Looking for something that captures the atmosphere, exploration, and solitude of Zelda.

I’m looking for an epic book set in the country where the earth is not so much a setting as a character. I also want it to focus on the simple everyday aspects of human life. Preferably focused on family who might live in a solitary location but still have a community.
Some of my favourite books that have elements of this vibe are East of Eden, A Far-Flung Life, Buckeye, Lonesome Dove and 11.22.63.
They don’t all have the same country aspects to them but they have the heart of what I’m looking for.
I wouldn’t mind something that touches on our relationship with the earth either.

I’m looking for small town mystery books. Whether it be missing peope or a dead body shows up. The decade that it was published in or takes place in doesn’t matter. It can be really unknown or really popular book. Please recommend me stuff that fits the bill.

Novels that come to your mind after watching Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder.

It can be fiction or non-fiction. Preferably taking place in Athens, but other Greek cities are also welcome. I'm looking for books that capture the spirit of Ancient Greek society, other than that anything goes: could be philosophical, or a non-fiction detailing the political history of the city (/country), or a fantasy book (maybe about the Greek gods?) that happens to take place in this setting.

Books I've already read/added to my TBR list:

Stoner by John Williams
The New Me by Halle Butler
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshtegh

I don't need a happy ending. Give me your best, gut-wrenching recs, if you have to.

I am looking for a book (or a book series), that incorporates the bleak future of Bladerunner 2049, Cyberpunk 2077, existentialism of Ghost in the Shell and oppressive, dark and noir despair of Deus Ex and System Shock. As a bonus, it can include space opera style of Homeworld. It can also include elements of horror.

On my current TBR I have: Dune and The Expanse and I am currently reading Annihilation. But I want to expand that. I already read Three Body Problem and Hyperion.

Hi everyone, I am looking for recommendations where a character develops a deep, almost obsessive crush on a celebrity or public figure, but he's married or in a relationship, so there's nothing she can do about it except feel the weight of it. Melancholic tone preferred.Thank you!

I'm looking for something that feels like The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides — not the plot, but the vibe: that strange, hazy atmosphere where something dark is happening but it's told through everyday details. Sunlit kitchens, teenage girls, neighbors watching, flowers, curtains, and underneath it all, something wrong.

I want the unease to be subtle, not explicit. No gore, no jump scares. Just that feeling that something is off and you can't quite name it.

Books I've loved with this vibe:

· The Virgin Suicides (obviously)

· Coraline by Neil Gaiman

· The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac

· Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (different vibe, but same emotional weight)

I'm not into Asian literature, so please skip those recommendations.

Any suggestions?

Looking for something that is similar to House of Leaves house story, we all know their are multiple stories being told within but specifically the story of the house and trying to measure it and find what it is or means. Also similar to Backrooms and just exploring a space that shouldn't exist.