#chain recs

Witches, Werewolves, and Vampires

Last week I asked you to recommend books on the subject of witches, werewolves, and vampires. Here are all of the books that were recommended!!

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

Witches

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1), by Tomi Adeyemi +

Undead Girl Gang, by Lily Anderson

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill

Chime, by Franny Billingsley

The Witch’s Daughter (The Witch’s Daughter #1), by Paula Brackston

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy, by Libba Bray

The Lost Coast, by Amy Rose Capetta +

The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch #1), by Rin Chupeco +

The Binding, by Bridget Collins

Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas #1), by Zoraida Córdova +

Witches of Lychford (Lychford #1), by Paul Cornell  

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare

The Witches, by Peter Curtis

The Witches, by Roald Dahl

Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1), by Susan Dennard

The Wicked Deep, by Shea Ernshaw +

Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth

Wise Child (Doran #1), by Monica Furlong

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman +

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman +

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman +

Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1), by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery, by Christopher Golden

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1), by Deborah Harkness

Chocolat (Chocolat #1), by Joanne Harris

Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman

Born At Midnight (Shadow Falls #1), by CC Hunter

Sanctuary,  by V.V. James

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle #1), by Dianne Wynne Jones

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, by Taisia Kitaiskaia  

Summer of Salt, by Katrina Leno

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Necromancer #1), by Lish McBride

When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore *

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

Circe, by Madelline Miller

Witch Hunt, by Syd Moore

A Secret History of Witches, by Louisa Morgan

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern +

The Worst Witch (Worst Witch #1), by Jill Murphy

Akata Witch (Akata Witch #1), by Nnedi Okorafor

Wyrd Sisters (Discworld #6, Witches #2), by Terry Pratchett

The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30, Tiffany Aching #1), by Terry Pratchett

Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms #1), by Morgan Rhodes

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1), by Anne Rice

Carry On (Simon Snow #1), by Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter #1), by J.K. Rowling *

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1), by V.E. Schwab *

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft, by Tess Sharpe

Secret Vampire (Night World #1), by LJ Smith

A Curse of Ash and Embers (Tales of the Blackbone Witches #1), by Jo Spurrier

These Witches Don’t Burn (These Witches Don’t Burn #1), by Isabel Sterling +

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

When My Heart Was Wicked, by Tricia Stirling

Cirkeln (Engelsfors #1), by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren

Book of Shadows (Sweep #1), by Cate Tiernan

The Price Guide to the Occult, by Leslye Walton

The Babysitters Coven, by Kate Williams

Sorcery & Cecelia: or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

Castle Hangnail, by Ursula Vernon

Werewolves

Bitten (Otherworld #1), by Kelley Armstrong

Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1), by Gail Carriger +

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare

Silver in the Blood, by Jessica Day George

Fateful, by Claudia Gray

The Silvered, by Tanya Huff

Born At Midnight (Shadow Falls #1), by CC Hunter

Cycle of the Werewolf, by Stephen King *

Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause

Hemlock (Hemlock #1), by Kathleen Peacock

Red Moon, by Benjamin Percy

The Fifth Elephant (Discworld #24), by Terry Pratchett

Secret Vampire (Night World #1), by LJ Smith

Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

Vampires

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black *

Eighth Grade Bites (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod #1), by Heather Brewer

Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate #1), by Gail Carriger +

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare

The Passage (The Passage #1), by Justin Cronin *

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman +

Evernight (Evernight #1), by Claudia Gray

The Radleys, by Matt Haig

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1), by Deborah Harkness

My Blood Approves (My Blood Approves #1), by Amanda Hocking

RoseBlood, by A.G. Howard

Bunnicula (Bunnicula #1), by Deborah and James Howe

Blood Price (Vicki Nelson #1), by Tanya Huff

Born At Midnight (Shadow Falls #1), by CC Hunter

The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1), by Julie Kagawa

‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King *

The Silver Kiss, by Annette Curtis Klause

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova

Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1), by Richelle Mead

Sunshine, by Robin McKinley

Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula #1), byKim Newman

Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23), by Terry Pratchett

Interview with a Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1), by Anne Rice +

Night Owls (Night Owls #1), by Lauren M. Roy

Strange Practice ( Dr.Greta Helsing #1), by Vivian Shaw

Tantalize (Tantalize #1), by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Secret Vampire (Night World #1), by LJ Smith

Dracula, by Bram Stoker *

Dracul, by Dacre Stoker and J.D Barker *

If you recommended books but don’t see your recommendations here, feel free to message me to let me know I missed your response

Found Family

Last week I asked you to recommend books on the subject of found family. Here are all of the books that were recommended!!

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi +

Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist #1), by Renee Ahdieh

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Girls Made of Snow and Glass, by Melissa Bashardoust +

Open House, by Elizabeth Berg

Red Rising (Red Rising #1), by Pierce Brown *

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1), by Becky Chambers *

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare 

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1), by Cassandra Clare *

Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices #1), by Cassandra Clare

Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl #1), by Eoin Colfer

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1), by James S.A. Corey

The Passage (The Passage #1), by Justin Cronin *

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle #1), by Diana Wynne Jones

At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years #1), by Jan Karon

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1), by Stephen King *

It, by Stephen King *

The Stand, by Stephen King *

Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1), by Seanan McGuire +

Every Last Cuckoo, by Kate Maloy

Tomorrow, When The War Began (Tomorrow #1), by John Marsden

The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen #1), by Jodi Meadows

Time is a River, by Mary Alice Monroe

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern +

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman *

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #1), by Natasha Pulley

Seven Ancient Wonders (Jack West Jr #1), by Matthew Reilly 

The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1), by Rick Riordan 

The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #1), by Rick Riordan 

The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1), by Rick Riordan 

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #1), by Rick Riordan

Blue Dahlia (In the Garden #1), by Nora Roberts

Vicious (Villains #1), by V. E. Scwhab *

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing #1), by Vivian Shaw

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

Introductions (The Ghost Bird #1), by C.L. Stone

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1), by J. R. R. Tolkien 

If you recommended books but don’t see your recommendations here, feel free to message me to let me know I missed your response

Diversity [edited]

Here are all the books you recommended for last week’s prompt, diversity!!

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

LGBTQIA+

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Wake of Vultures (The Shadow #1), by Lila Bowen

Our Bloody Pearl (These Traitorous Tides #1), by D. N. Bryn *

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Dreadnought (Nemesis #1), by April Daniels

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

Let’s Talk About Love, by Claire Kann +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Ash, by Malinda Lo

Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston +

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman *

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid *

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan

Barbary Station (Shieldrunner Pirates #1), by R.E. Stearns

POC

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1), by Tomi Adeyemi +

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Wake of Vultures (The Shadow #1), by Lila Bowen

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

Death by Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery #1), by Vivien Chien

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Dreadnought (Nemesis #1), by April Daniels

The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

Let’s Talk About Love, by Claire Kann +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Ash, by Malinda Lo

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel *

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, by Sarah Ockler *

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman *

In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey To Freedom by Yeonmi Park

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid *

Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad #1), by Scott Reintgen *

The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, by Manal al-Sharif

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Equal Justice: My Journey as a Woman, a Soldier and a Muslim by Rabia Siddique

Barbary Station (Shieldrunner Pirates #1), by R.E. Stearns

The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1), by Helene Wecker

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Disability/Mental Illness

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Our Bloody Pearl (These Traitorous Tides #1), by D. N. Bryn *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, by Sarah Ockler *

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, by Marieke Nijkamp +

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

Religion

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Equal Justice: My Journey as a Woman, a Soldier and a Muslim by Rabia Siddique

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

I’ll start off the first week with something pretty broad, as a kind of trial run. So for this week, the topic is: fantasy

In honour of October, this week’s prompt is werewolves, witches, and vampires!!

This week’s prompt is found family!!

A bit more specific again, this week’s prompt is animals!!

Fantasy

Last week I asked you to recommend your favourite fantasy books. These are all the books that were recommended!!

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

King of Scars (The Nikolai Duology #1), by Leigh Bardugo +

Girls Made of Snow and Glass, Melissa Bashardoust +

Range of Ghosts (Eternal Sky #1), by Elizabeth Bear

Chime, by Franny Billingsley

Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1), by Kendare Blake

The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury

Ninth Grade Slays (The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd #1), by Heather Brewer

The Wolf in the Whale, by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Our Bloody Pearl (These Traitorous Tides #1), by D. N. Bryn *

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1), by Sebastien de Castell

Traitor’s Blade (Greatcoats #1), by Sebastien de Castell +

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), S.A. Chakraborty +

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

To Kill a Kingdom, by Alexandra Christo *

The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch #1), by Rin Chupeco +

The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1), by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black

The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper

London Falling (Shadow Police #1), by Paul Cornell

The Fire Within (The Last Dragon Chronicles #1), by Chris D’Lacey

The King’s Bastard (King Rolen’s Kin #1), by Rowena Cory Daniells

Kings of the Wyld (The Band #1), by Nicholas Eames

We Hunt the Flame (Sand of Arawiya #1), by Hafsah Faizal

Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth

The Skylark’s Song (The Skylark Saga #1), by J. M. Frey

The Untold Turn (The Accidental Turn #1), by J.M. Frey

Neverwhere (London Below #1), by Neil Gaiman

The Written (Emaneska #1), by Ben Galley

The Sentinel Mage (The Cursed Kingdoms #1), by Emily Gee

The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern #1), by Shannon Hale

Seraphina (Seraphina #1), by Rachel Hartman +

Assassin’s Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy #1), by Robin Hobb

Fool’s Gold (The Dragon Lords #1), by Jon Hollins

The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey

Wintersong (Wintersong #1), by S. Jae-Jones

The Traitor God (Age of Tyranny #1), by Cameron Johnston

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle #1), by Diana Wynne Jones

The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm #1), by Diana Wynne Jones

Fires of the Faithful (Eliana’s Song #1), by Naomi Kritzer

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

Monstress, Vol 1: Awakening (Monstress #1), by Marjorie M. Liu and  Sana Takeda +

Ash, by Malinda Lo *

First Watch (The Fifth Ward #1), by Dale Lucas

Down Among the Stick and Bones (Wayward Children #2), by Seanan McGuire +

Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire +

Chalice, by Robin McKinley

Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1), by Sarah J. Maas

Blood’s Pride (Shattered Kingdoms #1), by Evie Manieri

Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles #1), by Melina Marchetta

Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood #1), by Juliet Marillier

Heart’s Blood, by Juliet Marillier

The Summoner (Chronicles of the Necromancer #1), by Gail Z. Martin

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1), by George R.R. Martin

The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen #1), by Jodi Meadows

Veiled Intentions (The Dragon’s Blade #2), by Michael R. Miller

The Philosopher’s Flight, by Tom Miller 

Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees +

Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire #1), by Natasha Ngan +

Sabriel (The Old Kingdom #1), by Garth Nix

Uprooted, Naomi Novik 

Here, There Be Dragons (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geograpica #1), by James A. Owen

Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1), by Christopher Paolini

East (East #1), by Edith Pattou

The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1), by Mary E. Pearson

Sorcery of Thorns, by Margaret Rogerson

Forging Divinity (The War of Broken Mirrors #1), by Andrew Rowe

Carry On (Simon Snow #1), by Rainbow Rowell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter #1), by J.K. Rowling *

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1), Brandon Sanderson

A Living Nightmare (Cirque du Freak #1), by Darren Shan *

The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon

Tantalize (Tantalize #1), by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Chronicles of Ixia, by Maria V Snyder +

The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1), by Maggie Stiefvater

Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1), by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl 

Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1), by Laini Taylor *

Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1), by Adrian Tchaikovsky  

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien  

The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1), by Jessica Townsend 

Dragon Weather (The Obsidian Chronicles #1), by Lawrence Watt-Evans

The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1), by Brent Weeks  

The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura #1), by Martha Wells

The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde

A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde