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⋅⋆ 2023 ↷ ... the year of authors ... 43

fiction

• no longer human (osamu dazai, 1948)
• dark horses (susan mihalic, 2021)
• push (sapphire, 1996)
• almond (sohn won-pyung, 2017) ♡
• little eve (catriona ward, 2018)
• the last house on needless street (catriona ward, 2021)
• in my dreams i hold a knife (ashley winstead, 2021)
• the last housewife (ashley winstead, 2022) ♡
• in the garden of spite (camilla bruce, 2021)
• for thy great pain have mercy on my little pain, 2023)_
• the world that we knew (alice hoffman, 2019)
• nefertiti (michelle moran, 2007) ♡
• the heretic queen (michelle moran, 2008)
• cleopatra's daughter (michelle moran, 2009)
• medusa (jessie burton, 2021)
• atalanta (jennifer saint, 2023)
• this is how you lose the time war (amal el-mohtar, 2019)
• cytonic (brandon sanderson, 2021) ♡
• the queen of the tearling (erika johansen, 2014)
• the invasion of the tearling (erika johansen, 2015)
• the bone season (samantha shannon, 2013) ♡
• the pale dreamer (samantha shannon, 2016)
• the words of kings and prophets (shauna lawless, 2023)
• godkiller (hannah kaner, 2023)
• thornhedge (t. kingfisher, 2023)
• deerskin (robin mckinley, 1993)
• a study in drowning (ava reid, 2023)
• the stolen heir (holly black, 2023)
• the broken ones (danielle l. jensen, 2017)
• these hollow vows (lexi ryan, 2021)
• my dark vanessa (kate elizabeth russell, 2020) ↺

non-fiction

• being lolita (alisson wood, 2020)
• wasted (marya hornbacher, 1998)
• the best we could do (thi bui, 2017)
• the dark interval (rainer maria rilke, 2018)
• averno (louise gluck, 2006)
• faithful and virtuous night (louise gluck, 2014)
• ptsd: time to heal (cathy o'brien, 2022)
• an outline of theosophy (c.w. leadbeater, 1903)
• a textbook of theosophy (c.w. leadbeater, 1915)
• astral plane (c.w. leadbeater, 1895)
• stitches (david small, 2009) ↺

⋅⋆ 2022 ↷ ... the year of changing reading tastes ... 30

fiction

• the island of missing trees (elif shafak, 2021)
• the death of vivek oji (akwaeke emezi, 2020) ♡
• twenty fragments of a ravenous youth (xialu guo, 2000)
• acts of desperation (megan nolan, 2021)
• luckenbooth (jenni fagan, 2021)
• hex (jenni fagan, 2022)
• fangs (sarah andersen, 2020)
• three days in the pink tower (e.v. knight, 2022)
• you let me in (camilla bruce, 2020) ♡
• house of hollow (krystal sutherland, 2021)
• devotion (hannah kent, 2021) ♡
• the dance tree (kiran millwood hargrave, 2022)
• ariadne (jennifer saint, 2021) ♡
• elektra (jennifer saint, 2022)
• iron gold (pierce brown, 2018)
• tower of dawn (sarah j. maas)
• kingdom of ash (sarah j. maas, 2018)
• the children of gods and fighting men (shauna lawless, 2022)
• highland raven (melanie karsak, 2014)
• the book of gothel (mary mcmyne, 2022)
• the hunger games (suzanne collins, 2008) ♡
• catching fire (suzanne collins, 2009) ♡
• mockingjay (suzanne collins, 2010)
• sunreach (brandon sanderson, 2021)
• the lost queen (signe pike, 2018) ↺
• starsight (brandon sanderson, 2019) ↺

non-fiction

• the waiting (keum suk-gendry kim, 2020)
• an elephant in my kitchen (francoise malby-anthony, 2018)
• i'm glad my mom died (jennette mccurdy, 2022)
• conscious ink (lisa barretta, 2017)
• consent (vanessa springora, 2020)

⋅⋆ 2021 ↷ ... the dissatisfied reading year ... 32

fiction

• the last thing to burn (will dean, 2021)
• salt to the sea (ruta sepetys, 2016)
• the dovekeepers (alice hoffman, 2011)
• the silence of the girls (pat barker, 2018) ↺
• the women of troy (pat barker, 2021)
• pan's labyrinth (guillermo del toro, 2019) ♡
• shards of a shattered mirror: nocturnal (daryl anka, 2020)
• red rising (pierce brown, 2014) ♡
• golden son (pierce brown, 2015) ♡
• morning star (pierce brown, 2016) ♡
• twixt firelight and water (juliet marillier, 2011)
• seer of sevenwaters (juliet marillier, 2010)
• flame of sevenwaters (juliet marillier, 2012)
• the burning god (r.f. kuang, 2020) ♡
• a court of silver flames (sarah j. maas, 2021)
• the witch's heart (genevieve gornichec, 2021)
• the bone shard daughter (andrea stewart, 2020)
• vicious (victoria schwab, 2013)
• half a king (joe abercrombie, 2014)
• shadow and bone (leigh bardugo, 2012)
• voyage of the basset (james c. christensen, 1996)
• skyward (brandon sanderson, 2018) ↺
• my dark vanessa (kate elizabeth russell, 2020) ↺

non-fiction

• message from an unknown chinese mother (xinran, 2010)
• night (elie wiesel, 1956)
• out of the shadows (timea e. nagy, 2019)
• grass (keum suk gendry-kim, 2017) ♡
• stitches (david small, 2009) ♡
• fun home (alison bechdel, 2006)
• jesus (tricia mccannon, 2009)
• where pharaohs dwell (patricia cori, 2009)
• the law of one: book II (v/a, 1982)

⋅⋆ 2020 ↷ ... the year of re-reads ... 48

fiction

• the vegetarian (han kang, 2007)
• human acts (han kang, 2014) ↺
• the lovely bones (alice sebold, 2002)
• penance (kanae minato, 2009) ♡
• dark places (gillian flynn, 2009)
• sealed (naomi booth, 2017)
• the lost queen (signe pike, 2018) ♡
• the forgotten kingdom (signe pike, 2020) ♡
• the mercies (kiran millwood hargrave, 2020)
• pachinko (min jin lee, 2017)
• white chrysanthemum (mary lynn bracht, 2018) ♡
• what the wind knows (amy harmon) ♡
• the first girl child (amy harmon)
• ninth house (leigh bardugo, 2019)
• starsight (brandon sanderson, 2019)
• defending elysium (brandon sanderson, 2008)
• how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories (holly black, 2020)
• the bear and the nightingale (katherine arden, 2017)
• poison study (maria v. snyder, 2005)
• hidden huntress (danielle l. jensen, 2015)
• dance of thieves (mary e. pearson, 2018)
• wicked fox (kat cho, 2019)
• stepsister (jennifer donnelly, 2019)
• crown of feathers (nicki pau preto, 2019)
• age of myth (michael j. sullivan, 2016)
• the sword of kaigen (m.l. wang, 2018)
• child of the prophecy (juliet marillier, 2001) ♡
• heir to sevenwaters (juliet marillier, 2008)
• the dragon republic (r.f. kuang, 2020) ↺
• the drowning faith (r.f. kuang, 2020)
• empire of storms (sarah j. maas, 2016) ♡
• a court of mist and fury (sarah j. maas, 2016) ↺
• a court of wings and ruin (sarah j. maas, 2017) ↺
• the song of achilles (madeline miller, 2011) ↺
• shards of a shattered mirror: cryptic (darryl anka, 2017) ↺
• my dark vanessa (kate elizabeth russell, 2020) ↺

non-fiction

• i'll be gone in the dark (michelle mcnamara, 2018)
• trance formation of america (cathy o'brien, 1995)
• collision with the infinite (suzanne segal, 1996) ♡
• the misfit's manifesto (lidia yknavitch, 2017)
• great human potential (tom kenyon, 2013)
• waking up in 5d (maureen j. st. germain, 2017)
• the hermetica (tim freke, 1997)
• return to the divine sophia (tricia mccanon, 2015)
• madness (marya hornbacher, 2008) ↺
• the inner sky (steven forrest, 1984) ↺
• atlantis rising (patricia cori, 2001) ↺

⋅⋆ 2019 ↷... the year of trying out different genres ... 46

fiction

• human acts (han kang, 2014) ♡
• convenience store woman (sayaka murata, 2016)
• daisy jones and the six (taylor jenkins reid, 2019)
• somewhere only we know (maurene goo, 2019)
• miracle creek (angie kim, 2019)
• confessions (kanae minator, 2008)
• dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein (kiersten white, 2018)
• the silence of the girls (pat barker, 2018) ♡
• a thousand ships (natalie haynes, 2019)
• the highland witch (susan fletcher, 2010)
• how we disappeared (jing-jing lee, 2019)
• all the ever afters (danielle teller, 2018)
• flowers for algernon (daniel keyes, 1966)
• skyward (brandon sanderson, 2018) ♡
• the lost sisters (holly black, 2018)
• the wicked king (holly black, 2019)
• the queen of nothing (holly black, 2019)
• a court of thorns and roses (sarah j. maas, 2015) ↺
• a court of frost and starlight (sarah j. maas, 2018)
• the assassin's blade (sarah j. maas, 2014)
• queen of shadows (sarah j. maas, 2015) ♡
• daughter of the forest (juliet marillier, 1999) ♡
• son of the shadows (juliet marillier, 2000) ♡
• the poppy war (r.f. kuang, 2018) ↺
• the dragon republic (r.f. kuang, 2019) ♡
• the beauty of darkness (mary e. pearson, 2016)
• morrighan (mary e. pearson, 2016)
• harry potter and the deathly hallows (j.k. rowling, 2007)
• a reaper at the gates (sabaa tahir, 2018)
• the songbird's overture (danielle l. jensen, 2014)
• beneath the sugar sky (seanan mcguire, 2018)
• trail of lightning (rebecca roanhorse, 2018)
• damsel (elana k. arnold, 2018)
• dividing eden (joelle charbonneau, 2017)
• girls of paper and fire (natasha ngan, 2018)
• circe (madeline miller, 2018) ↺

non-fiction

• the last rhinos (lawrence anthony, 2012)
• tracks (robyn davidson, 1980)
• h is for hawk (helen macdonald, 2014)
• all you can ever know (nicole chung, 2018)
• the good women of china (xinran, 2002) ♡
• educated (tara westover, 2018)
• on writing (stephen king, 2000)
• wild embers (nikita gill, 2017)
• the little book of skin care (charlotte cho, 2015)
• the prism of lyra (lyssa royal, 1989)

⋅⋆ 2018 ↷ ... my best reading year ... 65

fiction

• murder on the orient express (agata christie, 1934)
• the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian (sherman alexie, 2007)
• adore (doris lessing, 2003)
• room (emma donaghue, 2010)
• stolen (lucy christopher, 2009)
• wild bird (wendelin van draanen, 2017)
• burial rites (hannah kent, 2013) ♡
• the good people (hannah kent, 2016) ♡
• american born chinese (luen gene yang, 2006)
• through the woods (emily carroll, 2014)
• pestilence (laura thalassa, 2018)
• gabriel's infenro (sylvain reynard, 2011)
• into the drowning deep (mira grant, 2017)
• shards of a shattered mirror: cryptic (darryl anka, 2017) ♡
• mirage (somaiya daud, 2018)
• illuminae (jay kristoff, amie kaufman, 2015)
• a court of thorns and roses (sarah j. maas, 2015) ♡
• a court of mist and fury (sarah j. maas, 2016) ♡
• a court of wings and ruin (sarah j. maas, 2017) ♡
• throne of glass (sarah j. maas, 2012) ♡
• crown of midnight (sarah j. maas, 2013) ♡
• heir of fire (sarah j. maas, 2014) ♡
• the kiss of deception (mary e. pearson, 2014)
• the heart of betrayal (mary e. pearson, 2015) ♡
• harry potter and the goblet of fire (j.k. rowling, 2000) ♡
• harry potter and the order of the phoenix (j.k. rowling, 2003) ♡
• harry potter and the half-blood prince (j.k. rowling, 2005) ♡
• the ocean at the end of the lane (neil gaiman, 2013)
• norse mythology (neil gaiman, 2017)
• every heart a doorway (seanan mcguire, 2016)
• down among the sticks and bones (seanan mcguire, 2017)
• an ember in the ashes (sabaa tahir, 2015) ♡
• a torch against the night (sabaa tahir, 2016)
• the song of achilles (madeline miller, 2011) ♡
• galatea (madeline miller, 2013)
• circe (madeline miller, 2018) ♡
• sword of destiny (andrzej sapkowski, 1992)
• blood of elves (andrzej sapkowski, 1994)
• the crystal cave (mary stewart, 1970)
• the poppy war (r.f. kuang, 2018) ♡
• hunted (meagan spooner, 2017)
• the cruel prince (holly black, 2018) ♡
• stolen songbird (danielle l. jensen, 2014)
• the wicked deep (shea ernshaw, 2018)
• uprooted (naomi novik, 2015)
• the lightning thief (rick riordan, 2005)
• the capture (kathryn lasky, 2003)

non-fiction

• babylon's ark (lawrence anthony, 2017)
• in order to live (yeonmi park, 2015)
• a river in darkness (masaji ishikawa, 2000)
• when breath become air (paul kalanithi, 2016)
• brave (rose mcgowan, 2018)
• prozac nation (elizabeth wurtzel, 1994)
• the glass castle (jeannette walls, 2005) ♡
• weird things customers say in bookshops (jen campbell, 2012)
• more weird things customers say in bookshops (jen campbell, 2013)
• fluent forever (gabriel wyner, 2014)
• so you've been publicly shamed (jon ronson, 2015)
• from here to eternity (caitlin doughty, 2017)
• the inner sky (steven forrest, 1984)
• the boy who died and came back (robert moss, 2014)
• the new sirian revelations (patrica cori, 2017)
• visitors from within (lyssa royal, 1999)
• journal of a starseed (chair malloy brown, 2011)

⋅⋆ 2017 ↷ ... the year of non-fiction ... 40

fiction

• the yellow wall-paper (charlotte perkins gilman, 1892)
• the haunting of hill house (shirley jackson, 1959)
• the crucible (arthur miller, 1946)
• animal farm (george orwell, 1945)
• guilliver's travels (jonathan swift, 1726)
• harry potter and the philosopher's stone (j.k. rowling, 1997) ♡
• harry potter and the chamber of secrets (j.k. rowling, 1998) ♡
• harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban (j.k. rowling, 1999) ♡
• the alchemist (paulo coelho, 1988)
• the last wish (andrzej sapkowski, 1993)

non-fiction

• madness (marya hornbacher, 2008) ↺ ♡
• girl, interrupted (susanna kaysen, 1993)
• brain on fire (susannah cahalan, 2012)
• escape (carroyln jessop, 2007)
• born into the children of god (natacha tormey, 2014)
• smoke gets in your eyes (caitlin doughty, 2014) ♡
• working stiff (judy melinek, 2014)
• i have life: alison's journey (marianne thamm, 1995)
• a house in the sky (amanda lindhout, 2013)
• down the rabbit hole (holly madison, 2015)
• the elephant whisperer (lawrence anthony, 2009) ♡
• wild (cheryl strayed, 2012) ♡
• brave enough (cheryl strayed, 2015)
• big magic (elizabeth gilbert, 2015)
• the highly sensitive person (elaina n. aron, 1997)
• the infp comprehensive survival guide (heidi priebe, 2016)
• the numerology guidebook (michelle buchanan, 2013)
• your soul contract decoded (david nicolas ngan, 2012)
• the complete dream book (gillian holloway, 2001)
• the untethered soul (michael a. singer, 2007)
• the seat of the soul (gary zukav, 1989)
• many lives, many masters (brian l. weiss, 1988)
• destiny of souls (michael newton, 2000)
• the great shift (lee carroll, 2009)
• the complete ascension manual (joshua d. stone, 1994)
• hidden mysteries (joshua d. stone, 1995)
• bringers of the dawn (barbara marciniak, 1992)
• the cosmos of soul (patricia cori, 2000)
• atlantis rising (patricia cori, 2001)
• no more secrets, no more lies (patricia cori, 2008)

⋅⋆ 2016 ↷ ... the year i became an reader ... 10

• covered in glitter (hanna beth, 2016)
• the life changing magic of tidying up (marie kondo, 2010)
• spark joy (marie kondo, 2012)
• the only astrology book you'll ever need (martine joanna woolfolk, 1982
• past life astrology (judy hall, 2006)
• wheels of life (judith anodea, 1986)
• conscious dreaming (robert moss, 1996)
• the power of now (eckhart tolle, 1997)
• journey of souls (michael newton, 1994)
• earth angel realms (doreen virtue, 2007)