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I loved a car so dark and lonely by Bridgette camera which is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast but it's the first in a series which will go beyond that fairy tale and it also has a female lead with cerebral palsy

it's super it's fantastical but it's rooted in reality enough that I feel like even if you're not big fantasy fan you could really enjoy it and for me the fantastical elements simply exist in order to explore I'm kind of coming of age as a young woman in that time period through a like more expressive environment and I adore the trilogy

that has such a complex and beautiful world I feel like I'm still getting to know after two books

it has to be an enchantment of ravens by Margaret Rogerson major cruel Prince vibes

it's an incredible look at women who was wrongly imprisoned and her life as a black woman during the civil rights movement in a merica

one of the things I enjoyed about this most apart from the mystery element was that it was about teenagers in Scotland which obviously don't come across as much Nye and I was like yes I relate to this experience - the horror thriller element

it is just so twisty and turny and the narrative structure I think really adds to the kind of thrilling mystery aspect so that one was like a win for me

one that I would really not consider romance in the slightest is bodies of water but it's also tooled over to time periods so it's both set in a historical time period and a contemporary time period but it is brilliant so I would highly recommend it

if you like Julia earlier then I think you would like Robin McKinley so I would suggest checking out chalice it's also quite atmospheric and slow-paced

Circe by Madeline Miller love that

you've probably heard me mention it before but I loved it so I'm gonna mention again and that's convenient store women

how do you read daughter of forest by julietmm earlier yet because it's the best book ever written

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gale funnyman contemporary but not romance with a phenomenal interesting intriguing lead character that is going for her own ups and downs

historical fiction but specifically with women who love women fingersmith

which is about two girls who are forced to be concubines to a king but end up falling in love with one another

if you want something else then probably going postal by terry pratchett

well for that I have to go with Italian folk tales by Italo Calvino

when I read recently was mangoes and mistletoe by Adriana Herrera which is a novella about two women from the Dominican Republic who meet at a baking competition in Scotland and their romance is pretty cute

it's mooncakes which is like more of a contemporary queer fantasy graphic novel

I'm gonna go with Poirot by Agatha Christie any part of books on the Orient Express but the classic

I'll go for and never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro again brilliant

which is a fabulous Regency romance with a curvy main character which I really appreciate

I know it's a parody of the Gothic genre but the only thing I can think of right now is North I'm grabbing with a Jane Austen though that's what you're gonna get

that is a ye dystopian that very much explores I'm sort of like self-image eating disorders and what it's like being a young girl but in this very intense dystopian future brilliant

I'm just going to go for oranges or not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson which is brilliant

what I enjoyed recently was Orpheus girl which is actually contained pretty retailing but two girls who fall in love are then sent to a conversion camp to be turned straight

and for which she fantasy allow me to suggest perfectly preventable deaths by Deirdre Sullivan

immediately I think of proper English which is a 1920s murder mystery a la Agatha Christie but with a queer female romance

a hundred percent radiance by grace driven one of the best romance books I have ever read in my entire life I love it

when I have read was salt kill girls which is a ye paranormal horror mystery novel and one of the three protagonists in this book is asexuality and from the perspective of someone who isn't asexual I do think it's really excellent representation

the closest thing I can come up with is also a fantasy book and it's only set in a sort of for historical period but it does have those historical vibes and that's serpent in dove which is set in a sort of for historical version of France and has a patriarchal church and witches and ruins and I really enjoyed it

if you also want to be a comedy mixed in there then I'm gonna say soulless by Gail Carriger

it is truly incredible I read it when I was a teenager and Chris Guthrie is just one of the most spectacular characters in literature as far as I'm concerned

which is all about the history of science and how it's been used and abused by the sort of right wing

which is a phenomenal non-fiction book and I always take any opportunity to recommend it

it's the story of the five women who were killed by Jack the Ripper but it's not about Jack the Ripper it's about their lives up until them when they die and not about their deaths and their murders and the aftermath of that which i think is incredible

this one also has some fantastical paranormal elements and as the Gilda stories by Joe Gomez but it feels mainly like queer historical fiction just with some vampires

I think her stuff is really I'm creepy and unnerving and the haunting of Hill House is always a pretty solid recommendation

which is a contemporary romance about women with autism who hires an escort to help teach her about romance and dating

I've gotta say my mind immediately goes to the line which in the wardrobe I was a die-hard Stan when I was a kid and it still holds a soft spot in my heart

that focuses on the character of Penelope who was a deceases wife was the deceased is basically off on his Odyssey and Penelope's perspective on the whole situation

it is just like quite cute and fluffy and cheerful and it's not to say that the characters aren't complex and real bit just feels quite comforting and light-hearted throughout

it was the Red House mystery by AML and yes the ego Millner winnie-the-pooh he also wrote a fantastic oozing mystery so check that one out

is it a cop-out to recommend these secret history because I mean it's a dark academia pick of a classicist of course I have to mention it

I'm gonna suggest the time travel Diaries by Caroline Lawrence which is actually a middle grade book bits about a little boy who Titan travels back to ancient Londinium

I'm gonna go with Wonder by Emma Donoghue I love this book it has a bit of a mystery element that constantly had me second-guessing myself

one I actually really enjoyed earlier this year was the madness of Lord Ian McKenzie I read this for my an actual Scott reads a Highlander romance video but it was definitely the standout book from that video for me

for some more magic realism may I suggest the passion by Jeanette Winterson who is also my magic realism Queen

therese frakkin don't know why that's the first one that jumped to my mind by emile zola which is amazing super dark French classic just great

okay wait by Jeanette Winterson truly brilliant loved that book

white is for witching which is a stunning nuovo obviously though they're also kind of creepy