ᴋᴇʏ ⇢ ‏‏‎ ‎ ‏‏‎ ‏‏‎ ‎ ⋆ ‏‏‎ ‎ own a physical copy as of making this list ‎ ┊ ‏‏‎ ‎ × ‏‏‎ ‎ lost interest or dnf

‏‏‎ with this new decade of my life starting, there are certain books that i like to prioritize in the next five years or so, mostly books that i have owned or been meaning to read for a while and popular books in their respective genres.

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𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• practical magic by alice hoffman, (1995)
• the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, (2007)
• the hollow hills by mary stewart, (1973) ⋆
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton, (2018) ⋆
• the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley, (1982)
• the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien, (1954) ⋆
• the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty, (2017)
• piranesi by susanna clarke, (2020)
• weight by jeanette winterson, (2005)
• deathless by catherynne m. valente, (2011)
• black ships by jo graham, (2008)
• dark age by pierce brown, (2019) ⋆
• babel by r.f. kuang, (2022) ⋆
• ordinary monsters by j.m. miro, (2022) ⋆
• a discovery of witches by deborah harkness, (2011)
• juliet marillier's backlist series ↷
  • saga of the light isles, (2003)
  • the bridei chronicles, (2004) ⋆
  • wildwood, (2006)
  • shadowfell, (2012)
  • blackthorn & grim, (2014)

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𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• graceling by kristin cashore, (2008)
• the raven boys by maggie stiefvater, (2012)
• the black witch by laurie forest, (2017)
• the demon king by cinda williams chima, (2009) ⋆
• my lady jane by brodi ashton, cynthia hand, jodi meadows, (2016) ⋆
• divergent by veronica roth, (2011)
• fireborne by rosaria munda, (2019)
• the night circus by erin morgenstern, (2011)
• city of bones by cassandra clare, (2007)
• the thief by megan whalen turner, (1996)
• the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis, (1950)

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𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋

• the book thief by markus zusak, (2005)
• the winter sea by susanna kearsley, (2008) ⋆
• alias grace by margaret atwood, (1996)
• dreaming the eagle by manda scott, (2003)
• child of the morning by pauline gedge, (1977)
• the maiden by kate foster, (2023) ⋆
• the conqueror's wife by stephanie thornton, (2015)
• cassandra by christa wolf, (1983)
• the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner, (2010)
• fire from heaven by mary renault, (1969)
• innocent traitor by alison weir, (2006) ⋆
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow, (2005) ⋆
• the mad women's ball by victoria mas, (2019)

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𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂, 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

• slewfoot by brom, (2021) ⋆
• interview with the vampire by anne rice, (1976) ⋆
• the historian by elizabeth kostova, (2005)
• the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón, (2001)
• affinity by sarah waters, (1999) ⋆
• the corset by laura purcell, (2018) ⋆
• the house of whispers by laura purcell, (2019)
• the girl from rawblood by catriona ward, (2015)
• looking glass sound by catriona ward, (2023)
• bluebeard's castle by anna biller, (2023)
• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter, (1979)

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𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ‍

• white oleander by janet fitch, (1999) ⋆
• notes on a scandal by zoë heller, (2003)
• the silver dark sea by susan fletcher, (2012)
• a little life by hanya yanagihara, (2015) ⋆
• the secret history by donna tartt, (1992) ⋆
• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, (1993) ⋆
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman, (1995) ⋆
• hamnet by maggie o'farrell, (2020)
• the end of loneliness by benedict wells, (2016)
• a history of loneliness by john boyne, (2014)

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𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐒

• the search for omm sety by jonathan cott, (1987)
• papillon by henri charrière, (1969)
• faery tale by signe pike, (2010)
• man's search for meaning by viktor e. frankl, (1946)
• sorcerer's apprentice by amy wallace, (2003)
• driving with dead people by monica holloway, (2007)
• the spiral staircase by karen armstrong, (2004)
• an unquiet mind by kay redfield jamison, (1995)
• the diary of a young girl by anne frank, (1947)
• the railway man by eric lomax, (1995)
• hilma af klint: a biography by julia voss, (2023)
• at home in the world by joyce maynard, (1998)

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𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• the power of myth by joseph campbell, (1988)
• the kybalion by three initiates, (1912)
• the secret teachings of all ages by manly p. hall, (1928)
• on atlantis by edgar cayce, (1968)
• ancient mystic rites by c.w. leadbeater, (1986)
• the five dialogues of plato by plato, (-385)
• the consolation of philosophy by boethius, (524) ⋆
• existentialism and humanism by jean-paul sartre, (1946) ⋆
• letters from a stoic by seneca, (64) ⋆
• a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton, (2011) ⋆
• theosophy by rudolf steiner, (1904) ⋆
• how to know higher world by rudolf steiner, (1904)
• a philosophy of freedom by rudolf steiner, (1894)
• mystics after modernism by rudolf steiner, (2000)
• anthroposophy by rudolf steiner, (1996)
• the spiritual guidance of the individual and humanity by rudolf steiner, (1991)

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𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒

• jane eyre by charlotte brontë, (1847) ⋆
• lolita by vladimir nabokov, (1955) ⋆
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, (1890)
• the plague by albert camus, (1947) ⋆
• steppenwolf by herman hesse, (1927)
• the screwtape letters by c.s. lewis, (1942)
• the great divorce by c.s. lewis, (1946)
• the bell jar by sylvia plath, (1963)
• an oresteia by anne carson, (2009)

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𝐑𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

• an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
• burial rites by hannah kent
• white chrysanthemum by mary lynn bracht
• the highland witch by susan fletcher
• a court of silver flames by sarah j. maas
• the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden