The Bookish Mindset

It’s easy to be sceptical of short story collections; 50 pages to draw you in and leave you satisfied? Trust me, it’s possible. Let me introduce you to some of my favourites:

Romance

• Love in Colour – Bolu Babalola
• For Such A Time as This – Shani Akilah

Mythology & Folklore

• Spirits Abroad – Zen Cho
• Never Whistle at Night – Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Wan Alst Jr.
• Love in Colour – Bolu Babalola
• Rebel Folklore – Icy Sedgwick

Literary

• If I Survive You – Jonathan Escoffery
• Pleasantview – Celeste Mohammed
• She and Her Cat – Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
• Nudibranch – Irenosen Okojie
• Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
• The Sea Cloak – Nayrouz Qarmout
• Monstrum – Lottie Mills

Dystopian

• Edge of Here – Kelechi Okafor
• Life Ceremony – Sayaka Murata

If reading more is something that you’re looking at doing this year then should check my reading challenge out here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of any of the above, you can support local bookshops while doing so on Bookshop.org with this link here.

If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, I’d love if you could take a look at my patreon and consider supporting my content on there too.

And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.

Last updated 22/01/2025