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What are some books that represent your taste overall and do we have any in common? 👀

Before we dive into this, Bindery now has an option to request recs and you can go to the 🔗 in my bio and click “Get a Rec” and ask for details of what you’d like from the books I’ve read! I’m also making lists of 2026 releases in fantasy, romance and horror so far so happy to share some of these early on with you guys (these will be recs of what I’m looking forward to rather than what I’ve read) so GO GO GO 🤎

As for my taste in books, I’m never going to be the type that picks only 5 top books for the year guys and I’ve learned to accept it because honestly, what do you mean my top 5 books in one year? I would have to host a meeting with myself for a whole month to decide that 😭 So instead, you guys get my taste in books throughout various sub-genres that I yap about all the time! 

Here is a list of the books (if you prefer to read through it or for accessibility needs)🤎:
Cottagecore:
🍄 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries 
🍄 After the Forest by Kell Woods 
🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Love and Poison by Aamna Qureshi 
🍄 The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton
🍄 The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 
🍄 An Arrow to the Heart by K.R. Bacher 

Cozy Fantasy:
🍄 The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi 
🍄 Legend & Lattes by Travis 
🍄 The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
🍄 The Nameless Restaurant by Tao Wong 
🍄 Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
🍄 The Spellshop by Sangu Mandanna

Witchycore:
🍄 The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright 
🍄 House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 
🍄 The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder 
🍄 The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore 
🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
🍄 Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi 

Retellings, Fairy Tale & Historical Fantasy:
🍄A Sorceress comes to Call by T.Kingfisher 
🍄 What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez 
🍄 Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 
🍄 We Shall be Monsters by Tara Sim
🍄 The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G Slatter

The rest is in my pinned comment! 

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Hi guys, my name is Sabie and I'm a cozy hobbyist who is primarily a fantasy reader & a cozy gamer and I live in the UK, love everything that ranges from cottagecore to dark academia🤎

I love reading Cottagecore fantasy, whether its witchy fantasy or gothic/horror fantasy and cozy fantasy. As for games, you'll see me playing witchy games mostly with farming sims and short, narrative games too! Join me as cozy hobbyist in Chanterelle Solace and let's build our cottages, frolic in here and live a slow, intended life 



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