educated-dumbass

[educated-dumbass]

Books with Older Protagonists

Quick Key:

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

Fantasy:

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (42 year old MC)

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Elderly Couple MC’s) 🥀

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (55 year old MC) 🥀

The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst (Middle aged MC’s)

Mystery:

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (~70+ years old MC’s) 🥀

Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto (~60 years old MC)

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (82 years old MC)

Horror:

Ghost Story by Peter Straub (Elderly MC’s) 🥀

Bone Harvest by James Brogden (Senior citizen MC)

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (65 year old MC’s)

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (30-50 years old MC’s)

Fiction:

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (~70 years old MC)

How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Pooley (Senior Citizens)

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (59 years old MC)

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (39 year old, 87 year old, middle aged, and ~50 year old MC’s)

Graphic Novels:

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (76 year old MC)

Audubon on the Wings of the World

In by Will McPhail (millennial aged MC)

Poetry:

(About Aging and Growing)

Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 by Jane Seskin

Old Stranger by Joan Larkin 🥀

Sunset Years: You’re still the one by Frank A. Lancione

Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts by Joel Savishinsky

Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh

Romance:

The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian (~80+ years old MC’s) (Already in a relationship)

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (79 and 81 years old MC’s) 🥀

Science Fiction:

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (~30-50 years old MC’s)

Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss (50+ years old MC’s)

Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon (70 year old MC)

[educated-dumbass]

Books with Unique Names

Quick Key:

🌻= found on Readanybook for free

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

Fantasy:

The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 🥀

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller 🥀

The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland 🥀

The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson 🍄

Creation of the Gods by Xu Zhonglin 🥀

Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang 🍄

Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim 🍄

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 🌻🍄

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill 🥀

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho 🌻

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 🍄 (it’s a bit overhyped but still very good)

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard 🍄

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan 🍄

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson 🍄

Mystery:

The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney 🥀

The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman

The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur 🥀

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist

Historical Fiction:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams 🥀

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey 🍄

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 🌻🍄

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Horror:

Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

Fiction:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 🌻🍄

Poetry:

Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

Romance:

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter

A Whisper of Solace by Milena McKay 🥀

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Science Fiction:

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 🌻🍄

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 🌻🍄

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz 🥀

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston 🥀

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

[educated-dumbass]

Enemies to Lovers List

(I’m aware there’s plenty more but I saw too many naked or topless men when looking for them. I’m too gay to appreciate that on my feed)

Romance:

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter

Sins and Needles by Karina Halle

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

A Whisper of Solace by Milena McKay

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

First Position by Melissa Brayden

The V Girl: a Coming of Age Story by Mya Robarts

Fantasy:

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Angelfall by Susan Ee

The Awakening by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Graceling by Kristin Cashcore

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Sci-fi:

Seven Devils by Laura Lam

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Historical Fiction:

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

[educated-dumbass]

Physical Disability/ Chronic Illness Book Masterlist

Quick Key:

🌻= found on Readanybook for free

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

Fantasy:

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Hemophilia) (Loss of certain mental faculties due to injury) 🌻

One for All by Lillie Lainoff (POTS) 🍄

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Reading disability) (Character that uses a cane) 🍄🌻

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Reading disability) (Character that uses a cane) 🍄🌻

The Moth Girl by Heather Kamins (Fantasy chronic illness) 🥀

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (Cerebral Palsy)

Graphic Novels:

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (hard of hearing mc) 🥀

The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann (Clubfoot)(Down Syndrome) 🥀

Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata (Epilepsy) 🥀

Historical Fiction:

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Clubfoot) 🌻🥀

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (deafness)

Literary Fiction:

Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens written by an assortment of disabled creators edited by Marieke Nijkamp (Wheelchair User)(Unspecified Mental Illness) (Blind MC) (Anxiety) (Chronic Pain) (Schizophrenia) (MC with a Cane) (Bipolar II) (IBS) (Cerebral Palsy) (Autistic MC) 🍄

Turning by Joy L. Smith (Wheel Chair user) (Spinal injury) (Stutter) (Brain Injury) 🥀

Electricity by Ray Robinson (Epilepsy)

Horror:

The Call by Peadar O'guilin (disability as a result of complications from having polio as a child) 🥀

Mystery:

Silent Fear by Lance Morcan (Deaf MC’s) 🥀

Russian Dolls by Cristelle Comby (Blind MC)

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (amputee)🌻🥀

Poetry:

A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman (below the knee amputation as a result of a car accident) 🍄🌻

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (Mother with Leukemia)

Romance:

The War Within (character in wheelchair) 🍄🌻

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (cerebral palsy)

Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (MC with prosthetic limb)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Chronic Pain)

Science Fiction:

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (character with chronic immune deficiency) (character with prosthetics)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (uses a cane and a wheelchair due to foot binding) 🍄

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (epilepsy? Kinda) (Amputee MC) 🌻🥀

[educated-dumbass]

Sapphic Book Masterlist

Quick Key:

🌻= found on Readanybook for free

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

🌈= Send me an ask or direct message with this emoji and the book you want and I can likely find it in digital format for free. Be aware it is less secure than the Readanybook site. Please clarify if you’re using a phone or a laptop/computer. (Not including graphic novels)

Fantasy:

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson 🍄

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho 🍄

Darling by K. Ancrum 🍄

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust 🌻

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan 🍄

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard 🍄

Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan 🍄

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 🍄 (it’s a bit overhyped but still very good)

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho 🌻

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Vessel of Starfire by Allison Carr Waechter

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Crier's War by Nina Varela

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Malice by Heather Walter

Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson 🥀

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro 🥀

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

Amy of the Necromancers by Jimena I. Novaro 🥀

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner 🥀

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes 🥀

Ghost Walk by Kay Solo 🍄

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Graphic Novels:

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill

Historical Fiction:

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 🌻🥀

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

She Rises by Kate Worsley 🥀

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Re

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Horror:

Extasia by Claire Legrand

The Final Child by Fran Dorricott 🍄

The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan

The Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand 🍄

Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

Literary Fiction:

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi 🥀

Mystery:

Far From You by Tess Sharpe

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist 🥀

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Poetry:

Sappho 🍄🌻

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

Romance:

First Position by Melissa Brayden 🍄

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar 🥀

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman 🥀

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

Silk & Steel by Janine A. Southard

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite 🥀

The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley

The Soft Landing Collection: Sapphic Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories by Jacquelynn Lyon

The War Within by Yolanda Wallace 🍄🌻

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Sprinkled in the Stars by Violet Morley

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake 🥀

Science Fiction:

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 🍄

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston 🥀

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz 🥀

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 🌻🍄

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia 🍄

Compass Rose (Compass Rose #1) by Anna Burke

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki