• "this is all: the pillow book of cornelia kenn" - aidan chambers (it warms my heart)
• "the ruby in the smoke" - philip pullman
• " the night watch" series - sergei lukyanenko (these books are gooooold)
• " rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead" - tom stoppard
• "villette" - charlotte bronte
• "dreamland" - sarah dessen
• "if nobody speaks of remarkable things" - jon mcgregor
• "alias grace" - margaret atwood
• "wasteland" - francesca lia block
• "innocents" - cathy coote
• "wither" - lauren destefano
• "the magic toyshop" - angela carter
• "la malasangre" - griselda gambaro
• " cracked up to be" - courtney summers

// TOP BOOKS OF 2013 //

• "sharp teeth" - toby barlow
• "jonathan strange and mr norrell" - susanna clarke
• "dare me" - megan abbott
• "this is how you lose her" - junot diaz
• "the rehearsal" - eleanor catton

// ADULT //

• "the year of the flood" - maggie atwood
• "the master and margarita" - mikhail bulgakov
• "jazz" - toni morrison
• "possession" - a.s. byatt

// YOUNG ADULT //

• "the diviners" - libba bray
• "shadow and bone + siege and storm" - leigh bardugo
• "fury" - shirley marr
• "some girls are + cracked up to be" - courtney summers
• anything by rainbow rowell

//AUTUMN NOVEL REC LIST //

• "jonathan strange & mr norrell" - susanna clarke : during the napoleonic wars, two very different magicians emerge to change rngland’s history. most people have believed magic to be long dead in england—until the reclusive mr norrell reveals his powers and is later joined by his student/rival jonathan strange.
• "possession" - a.s. byatt : the tale of two young scholars discovering the letter exchange and affair of two victorian poets and tracing their movements through england.
• "the diviners" - libba bray : set in new york during the roaring twenties, a group of teenagers follow the trace of a series of murderers caused by a supernatural force.
• "the collected works of t.s. spivet" - reif larsen (buy a physical copy, it has gorgeous illustrations that won’t show properly on an e-reader): after having been invited by the smithsonian institute to accept a prestigious science award, the genius twelve-year-old mapmaker protagonist t.s. spivet from montana sets out to travel to washington d.c. alone to claim his award.
• "a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers" - xiaolu guo_: the diary of a chinese girl moving to london and discovering love and herself._
• "why we broke up" - daniel handler : min green and ed slaterton are breaking up, so min is writing ed a letter and giving him a box. inside the box is why they broke up.
• "the secret history" - donna tartt (i know! i’m sorry!): classics college ancient greek bacchanals murder incest murder suicide
• "the tell-tale heart and other writings" - edgar allan poe : “now this is the point. you fancy me a mad. madmen know nothing. but you should have seen me. you should have seen how wisely I proceeded…”
• "harry potter 1-4 (x x x x)" - jk rowling
• "the remains of the day" - kazuo ishiguro : stevens, a long serving butler, takes a six-day motoring trip through the west county; the excursion becomes a journey through his past.
• "keturah and lord death" - martine levitt : "i will tell you a story of magic and love, of daring and death, and one to comfort your heart. it will be the truest story i have ever told. now listen, and tell me if it is not so."
• "the master & margarita" - mikhail bulgakov : the devil visits the fervently atheistic soviet union.
• "alias grace" - margaret atwood : the story is about two notorious 1843 murders in upper canada. two servants, grace marks and james mcdermott, were convicted of the crime. years later, a doctor sets out to research the case and becomes personally involved in the story of grace marks.
• "steppenwolf" - hermann hesse : "in fear i hurried this way and that. i had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other."
• "villette" - charlotte brontë : the protagonist and narrator lucy snowe flees from an unhappy past to become a teacher at a boarding school in france. soon, her struggle for independence is overshadowed by her feeling for the schoolmaster.
• "i am the messenger" - markus zusak : you’ll probably cry a lot.i did.

// ~VAMPIRE/ ZOMBIE CORNER~ //

• "the historian" - elizabeth kostova : this is not a favourite, but atmosphere-wise it’s a killer. girl researching the history and folklore of vlad tepeş and getting into a lot of trouble.
• "pride and prejudice and zombies" - seth grahame-smith : the bennets are actually zombie killers.
• "sunshine" - robin mckinley : a ya vampire novel that isn’t quite like other ya vampire novels. enough said.
• "dracula" - bram stoker : well.