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FICTION WISHLIST:
Overall Vibes: Find new angles to beloved genres, characters, and tropes. Think outside the box. Our tastes skew more literary or bookclub/upmarket that commercial. Give us complex multi-dimensional characters and plots that are tightly constructed but not overly agenda-driven.

  • Smart comedy/dark comedy – think How To Get To Heaven from Belfast

  • Traum-com – give us something that shouldn’t be funny and make it funny with lots of heart.

  • Octogenarian escapades – think Jonas Jonasson

  • Genre twists

  • Classic gothic literature – think Daphne DuMaurier

  • Contemporary women’s fiction – give me relatable, complex, deeply flawed, deeply funny, and deeply human women who grow and evolve in dynamic and challenging ways.

  • Messy family dramas that also make me laugh and bring healing

  • Coming of age stories from female protagonists

  • Road trip novels not just set in America

  • Contemporary war dramas (post 1910) particularly with female protagonists.

  • Cold war or contemporary espionage thrillers with female protagonists or Slow Horses type wry humor

  • Fantasy – high fantasy, low fantasy, dragons, romantasy that is plot heavy, New Adult fantasy, satirical fantasy

  • Speculative fiction – give me your take on social and political issues in unexpected ways – think Emily St. John Mandel and N.K. Jemisin

  • Circuses, carnivals, and abandoned theme park settings – think Night Circus, Water for Elephants and Fantasticland.

  • Magical realism

  • Alternate realities/parallel universes – think if Christopher Nolan wrote a novel

  • Temporal twist – give me nonlinear, braided, circular, and antimimetic novels that subvert causality – think The Kingdoms, Crossings, The Rise & Fall of DODO

  • Mysteries – female protagonists, fish out of water sleuths, amateur sleuths that fail comically – think Caimh McDonnell and Slow Horses

  • International locales – take me to interesting places and broaden my world views to new societies

  • LGBTQ fiction that is character driven, not agenda driven.

  • Unreliable narrators

  • Anything set in Ireland or Antarctica

 

NONFICTION WISHLIST
Overall Vibes: Well researched and focused theses that are easy for readers to apply so they can better their quality of life.

  • Business leadership

  • Macro-economics

  • Investing

  • Personal development

  • Thematic memoirs

  • Culinary nonfiction (excluding cookbooks)

  • Narrative nonfiction

  • Narratology

  • Self-help that is strongly researched

  • Psychology

  • Living with AI

  • Inspirational nonfiction

  • Christian living that is well researched and open minded

  • Intersection of science and faith

Overall Vibes: Well researched and focused theses that are easy for readers to apply so they can better their quality of life.

  • Social justice topics

  • Overall wellness

  • Books about time and temporality

  • Travel literature

  • Landmark legal cases

  • Intelligence and whistleblowers

  • Genocide & war crimes

  • Survivors and activists in war-torn nations or brutal regimes

  • War narratives post 1900 from marginalized POVs

  • Investigative journalism

  • Ukraine and Russian relations

  • Animal narratives

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