There are so many different reasons why someone might like The Raven Cycle so I divided it up into place, prose, plot and people. Do look up the warnings on any books you are interested in.
Now I hope someone adds on because I need more to read!!
Place - TRC has such a strong sense of place
Bone Gap - the closest small city vibe and dreamy prose to TRC so it gets to be in both categories
The City We Became
Left Hand of Darkness
Prose
Scorpio Races
Call Down the Hawk
Piranesi
Spear that Cuts Through Water
Plot
Need more plot
Sword of Kaigen
She Who Became the Sun
A Memory Called Empire
Light plot just vibes
The Colour of Magic
Bunny
Another Mystery Thanks
Mexican Gothic
Thousand Doors of January
Who Murdered Roger Ackroyd
I'm okay with with the plot being incomprehensible
Gideon the Ninth
This is How You Lose the Time War
People
Found Family
Thick As Thieves - These people are all really good friends and may also be outlaws
Six of Crows
Clockwork Boys
Nona the Ninth
Rise of Kyoshi
Messed Up - These are friends but in a fucked up place
If We Were Villains
The Secret History
The Foxhole Court
Just for the Trope - I don't think the found family was strong but the plots or writing was fun
Gilded Wolves
Foundryside
Cinder
Queer Romance Fantasy - Typically only recommended for their resemblance to Pynch.
The Hollow and the Haunted
Summer Sons - Academic + Car Guy written by TRC fan
Don't Let the Forest In - Closest in flowery prose
Sorcery and Small Magics
Reminds me of people from Gangsey
Bluesey - Pride and Prejudice
Adam - Black Sun and Ninth House
Ronan - Bone Shard Daughter and Not Even Bones
Blue - Daughter of Smoke & Bone and Diviners (Libra Bray)
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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- this one is a precursor to Dracula and feels more manageable in length and story. It’s about a young lonely girl whose family takes in a mysterious stranger and they become attached until a horrible secret is revealed.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman- basically a big long poem that stands on themes of nature, sexuality, being, and life. I really liked this book because you can read it cohesively and then afterwards I like flipping to random pages.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf- I’m reading this one right now and I really enjoy Woolf’s way of prose-writing a novel. She does a good job keeping the reader involved and writing beautifully.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- a short story that packs a LOT into it. If you haven’t already heard of it, The Metamorphosis is about Gregor Samsa who wakes up one morning to find he’s now a giant beetle. This story is short, but made me emotional by the end.
Beloved by Toni Morrison- published in the 20th century, this is a great book to get yourself immersed in more recent classics. Toni Morrison is a power house of an author and writes beautifully, tragically, and with so much heart.
Who is your favorite vampire (from a book, movie, or TV show)? ❤️
While the Batty About Book Club is reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, I want to help the rest of my bookish bats find their next read? Check out these books featuring queer vampires! 🦇
A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ❤️
Silver Under Nightfall - Rin Chupeco 🦇
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow - Mariko Tamaki 🩸
Blood City Rollers - V.P. Anderson ❤️
House of Crimson Kisses - Ruby Roe 🦇
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - V.E. Schwab 🩸
The Blessing of Vampires - D. N. Bryn ❤️
Hunger Pangs - Joy Demorra 🦇
Good Enough to Eat - Jae & Alison Grey🩸
Carmilla: The First Vampire - Amy Chu, Soo Lee, Sal Cipriano ❤️
Crewel Intentions - Joy Demorra 🦇
Vampires Never Get Old - Zoraida Córdova🩸
House of Crimson Hearts - Ruby Roe ❤️
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu 🦇
The Wicked and the Willing - Lianyu Tan 🩸
Leather and Lace - Magen Cubed ❤️
Carmilla & Laura by SD Simper 🦇
This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings🩸
Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson ❤️
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager - D. N. Bryn 🦇
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love - D. N. Bryn🩸
Moonlight Love and Witchcraft - Micah Iannandrea & Vaela Denarr ❤️
Vampeerz - Akile 🦇
The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz🩸
A Long Time Dead - Samara Breger ❤️
Heart of Stone - Johannes T. Evans 🦇
A Flame in the Night by Morgan Dante🩸
An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson ❤️
Hungerstone - Kat Dun 🦇
A Vile Season - David Ferraro🩸
The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez ❤️
Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman 🦇
How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck - D. N. Bryn🩸
Night's Edge - Liz Kerin ❤️
The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling 🦇
His Glorious Monster - D. N. Bryn🩸
Odd Blood - Azalea Crowley ❤️
Strange Blood - Azalea Crowley 🦇
Ocean Bleeds Salty - Azalea Crowley🩸
She Came for Blood - Darva Green ❤️
House of Hunger - Alexis Henderson 🦇
Coal Gets in Your Veins - Leslie Allen & Cat Rector🩸
A Bloody Little Valentine - Magen Cubed ❤️
Weird Blood - Azalea Crowley 🦇
For Love and Blood and Fury - J J Arias🩸
Kissed the Mark - Lila Gwynn ❤️
The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores 🦇
Falling for the Fugitive - Lila Gwynn 🩸
Thirst - Marina Yuszczuk ❤️
First Rule of the Cutthroat Vampire Collective: Don’t Fall for the Target - J.J. Arias🦇
The Midnight Shift - Seon-Ran Cheon🩸
The Hunter's Gambit - Ciel Pierlot ❤️
Suffered from the Night: Queering Stoker's Dracula - Steve Berman (ed) 🦇
Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor ❤️
From the Dark We Came - J. Emery 🦇
Undead at Large - Lila Gwynn🩸
The Lost Girls - Sonia Hartl ❤️
Sunbathers - Lindz McLeod 🦇
Youngblood - Sasha Laurens🩸
Terrible Praise - Lara Hayes ❤️
The Fell of Dark - Caleb Roehrig 🦇
Court of the Undying Seasons - A.M. Strickland🩸
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QOTD: Have you ever read a book with aromantic representation? If not, I highly recommend giving one a go!
If anyone has any recs where a character realises they’re aromantic a bit later in life, I’d love that. I’ve known I was ace since I was 18 and I didn’t realise I was aro until my late 20s.
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Books featured:
Slide 2: Aroace
- Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
- Loveless by Alice Oseman
- City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault
- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
- The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman
- Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
- The Spider and Her Demons by Sydney Khoo
Slide 3: aro-allo
- All You Want For the Holidays by Quinton Li
- A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth
- Something Extraordinary by Alexis Hall
- Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
- Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queer Light Anthology
Slide 4: On my tbr
- Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
- Being Aro anthology
- Cinder by DN Brynn
- Goddess of the Hunt by Shelby Eileen
- Aces & Aros: Volume 1 by Jeremy Whitley, Kat Calamia and Phil Falco
