Recent Book Lists
Culinary Whodunits
Foodie Fiction – Fiction Good Enough to Eat
novels you can sink your teeth into
fiction set in restaurants, bakeries, cooking schools, and other places where people make a living with food
Romance is delicious
Cowboy Fiction – Always Drink Upstream From the Herd
fiction from the pages of history
genre mashup: westerns plus horror, fantasy, science fiction, alternative histories, and more
Fiction with classic “old west” themes
Western romance – historical, contemporary, and more
contemporary fiction with classic Western themes, settings, or characters
unreliable narrators in ficiton
Alive. Dead. Reincarnated. Immortal
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Book Lists – Fiction
- All Five Senses
- Among the Missing
- Asian-American Fiction: Dark or Dystopian
- Asian-American Fiction: Literary
- Asian-American Fiction: Rom Coms
- Asian-American Fiction: Mysteries and Historical Fiction
- Brothers and Sisters
- Bah! Humbug!
- By the Numbers
- Cosplay @ Comic Con
- Cowboy Fiction – Always Drink Upstream From The Herd
- Cowboy Fiction – Don’t Squat With Your Spurs On
- Cowboy Fiction – Go Where There is no Path and Leave a Trail
- Cowboy Fiction – He’s a Cowboy, Ain’t He?
- Cowboy Fiction – Too Much Tumblewed in Their Blood to Settle Down
- Danger! Plot Twists Ahead!
- Dark Academia – Beyond the Aesthetic Vol. I
- Dark Academia – Classic Titles
- Foodie Fiction – Cooking Up a Mystery
- Foodie Fiction – Fiction Good Enough to Eat
- Foodie Fiction – Professional Food
- Foodie Fiction – A Taste of Love
- Foodie Fiction – When the Secret Ingredient is… Magic
- Going to the Dogs
- Gothic Fiction – Contemporary Settings
- Gothic Fiction – Historical
- Gothic Fiction – Paranormal
- Gothic Fiction – Scary Stories
- Haunted Houses
- Horror Fiction
- How it all began – Historical Fiction
- How it all began – Fantasy / Sci Fi /Paranormal
- How it all began – Romance and Rom-Com
- How it all began – Mysteries and Thrillers
- An Illusion of Magicians
- I’m Not Much, But I’m All I Have
- Kind of Like a Love Story
- Leelo En Espanol / Read It In Spanish
- Let’s Hear it For Bad Girls & Nasty Women: Ladies we Love to Loathe
- Let’s Hear it For Disobedient Women: Ladies who Stepped out of Line
- Let’s Hear it For Ladies of Hollywood’s Heyday: The Glitz, The Glamour, The Grittiness
- Let’s Hear it For her Majesty: Queens, Princesses, Consorts, and Other Royal Women
- Let’s Hear it For the Muses: Wives, Mothers, Sisiters, Daughters
- Let’s Hear it For Indomitable Women: Ladies who Survived (and Thrived) Against All Odds
- Let’s Hear it For The Silenced: Women with Secrets
- Let’s Hear it For Scandalous Women: Ladies with Less-Than-Perfect Reputations
- Modern Noir
- ‘Most Ardently” – Jane Austen Re-Mixed
- Native American Fiction
- Never the Same River Twice
- Notes to Self: Dear Diary
- Notes to Self: Epistolary Novels
- Once Upon a Time
- Once Upon a Time, Again
- Our Corporate Overlords: It’s Not Easy Working for a Living
- Our Corporate Overlords: Just a Cog in the Late-Stage Capitalism Machine
- Poets and Poetry
- Political Families
- Political Fiction
- Political Plot Twists
- Political Thrillers
- Political Wives
- Popcorn, Peanuts, Cotton Caaaandy!!
- Such Devoted Sisters
- Such Devoted Sisters Still
- There is No Plan(et) B
- These Are Not “How-To” Books
- Transgender Visibility
- The Truth is Slippery
- Twin Sisters
- Who am I This Time?
- Will of Avon; or, the Bard, Re-Mixed
Booklists – Nonfiction
- Adult Children, Aging Parents
- The African-American Experience in Richmond
- All Great and Precious Things are Lonely
- The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
- Both ends of the Leash
- Celebrate National Cocktail Day
- Climate Change: Looking at History (and Politics as a Way Forward)
- Climate Change: What the Experts Have to Say
- Climate Change: What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late
- Cockeyed Optimists
- Costing the Earth
- First, Do No Harm
- Get It Together
- Happiness Happens
- Happiness Still Happens
- The Ignominy of Abundance, The Plight of Plentitude; or, First World Problems
- It’s All Relative – Family Secrets
- It’s All Relative – Families Sure are Funny
- It’s All Relative – Getting Above Your Raising
- It’s Simple Really
- Lost Time is Gone Forever
- Money! Money! Money!
- Passport Not Necessary
- RPL – Moments in History
- Self-Care: Cooking & Eating
- Self-Care: Habits and Rituals
- Self-Care: Nesting
- Self-Care: Other People Matter
- Self-Care: Your Body
- Self-Care: Your Mind
- So You Want To Be a Writer
- What a Difference a Year Makes
- What Doesn’t Kill You