u/queeriero

Hiiiiii, I’m looking for your favorite books that not a single person you know has ever heard of. I‘m especially interested in smaller/newer authors, or obscure books by otherwise well known authors, etc etc. I just feel like I’ve exhausted so many of the things you can pick up at any ole Barnes and noble and want something that’s completely out of nowhere.

I just really love the indie book stores near me that sell local authors because you can‘t really find those sorts of books anywhere else, but I think they’re just as good if not better than some of the big names.

I very much prefer fantasy, but feel free to suggest any other genres as well, but fantasy, mystery, thriller are my bread and butter :)

EDIT: you all are amazing! I have so many new books to track down. Keep ‘em coming, I love this!!!

I have recently realized that books that make me cry so hard I can’t be a person for a day or two are like,,, my bread and butter. To be fair, I do cry at everything, but it’s in a therapeutic way (mostly). I would like a book that is deeply painful but still has a happy ending?? Because I love a happily ever after when you feel like the characters fight tooth and nail to achieve it. I am reading the Paladin’s Grace series right now and for perspective I have cried a lot, it’s not an exaggeration that I cry at everything (I have cried more than once while watching Bob Burgers if that puts things into perspective).

I am a fantasy girlie, particularly urban fantasy, but I am willing to give any fantasy a go. I have no preference for if there is romance or no romance, I just prefer books where that is a B plot rather than the main plot.

I prefer BIPOC characters, queer characters, and disabled characters but it’s not a deal breaker if a book has none of them. Oh and I am also very obsessed with monsters/cryptids/ other various horrifying creatures.

Trigger warnings: SA, body horror, (and not necessarily a tw but I do really really hate child death, especially if it’s on-page. I blame Bridge to Terebithia).

Must be something like 15 years ago I read this book about a girl who is like not very popular at school and someone maybe tries to murder her? I think like she was being slowly poisone, but I don’t know if there was like a twist that no one tried to kill her or what.

I think the book was title ”Who Killed ___ ___” but I’m pretty sure i was let down by the book because she wasn’t actually murdered? I feel like she survived the whole book?

I think it was set in New South Wales because when I read it, I didn’t know what New South Wales was.

I know for a FACT that the main characters favorite word was “reverie” and she used it hundreds of times all over the book (because in 6th grade we got extra credit if we found the word of the week anywhere and I was reading this book at the time and I was ecstatic to find out that the word of the week was reverie and we got twice the extra credit if we found it the day of, so I got like an amount of extra credit that if you were to translate it to money would be several thousand dollars).

Hi I’m looking for recommendations on apartments with in-unit laundry in St Paul, Eagan, or Bloomington? In particular places that have good reviews, because I was eyeing Soul but it looks like it has really terrible reviews which worries me. I‘m also looking at The Drover but I‘m not familiar with the area and a friend of mine says it might be kinda bad. I toured Parkside recently and unfortunately it just reeked of cigarettes too much.

I’m trying to stay under $1500 for a 1 bedroom, or a studio with high square footage. I feel like every apartment I look at is either no in-unit laundry or reallly bad reviews, cause like, I don’t really want to live at a place with multiple stabbings or cockroach infestations lol.

My main concern with apartments is that the rent will increase a lot year to year because I really love where I am right now but it’s not in Saint Paul so there’s no cap on rent raises and it’s $300 more than it was when I moved in 3 years ago.

I've recently had such an itch to read a treasure hunting book--or tangentially a lost city or a quest. Think Romancing the Stone but as a book. And I'm definitely craving some DnD vibes too if at all possible. I do prefer fantasy, but I'm not opposed to other genres! I like books to have light romance but I don't really want that to be the central plot. I just want something exciting! I also REALLY prefer a little levity and humor, I'm not into the "dark academia" vibe that much, it kind of bums me out.

YA is fine, but I do prefer adult. Middle grade is not ideal, but if it's a good book then it's a good book.

For reference, I think I've seen every treasure hunting movie made in the last 90 years lol. Romancing the Stone is definitely the best, but I do love a National Treasure or Indiana Jones vibe too. And a book like The Mummy would be spectacular! Fair warning, I did try to read The Da Vinci Code a few years back, but it didn't wow me--the narrative just felt kind of spoon fed to me.

Just a few things that I prefer but are not at all mandatory: urban fantasy, queer, POC main characters, monsters (I LOVE monsters), female author, third person, standalone

TW: SA, child death, body horror

(cross posted on r///suggestmeabook)

I've recently had such an itch to read a treasure hunting book--or tangentially a lost city or a quest. Think Romancing the Stone but as a book. And I'm definitely craving some DnD vibes too if at all possible. I do prefer fantasy, but I'm not opposed to other genres! I like books to have light romance but I don't really want that to be the central plot. I just want something exciting! I also REALLY prefer a little levity and humor, I'm not into the "dark academia" vibe that much, it kind of bums me out.

YA is fine, but I do prefer adult. Middle grade is not ideal, but if it's a good book then it's a good book.

For reference, I think I've seen every treasure hunting movie made in the last 90 years lol. Romancing the Stone is definitely the best, but I do love a National Treasure or Indiana Jones vibe too. And a book like The Mummy would be spectacular! Fair warning, I did try to read The Da Vinci Code a few years back, but it didn't wow me--the narrative just felt kind of spoon fed to me.

Just a few things that I prefer but are not at all mandatory: urban fantasy, queer, POC main characters, monsters (I LOVE monsters), female author, third person, standalone

TW: SA, child death, body horror