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βββ with this new decade of my life starting, there are certain books that i like to prioritize, 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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- the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley, 1982
- the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty, 2017
- dark age by pierce brown, 2019 β
- piranesi by susanna clarke, 2020
- the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton, 2018 β
- assassin's apprentice by robin hobb, 1995 β
- practical magic by alice hoffman, 1995
- babel by r.f. kuang, 2022 β
- the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, 2007
- empire of silence by christoper ruocchio, 2018
- the hollow hills by mary stewart, 1973 β
- the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien, 1954 β
- deathless by catherynne m. valente, 2011
- weight by jeanette winterson, 2005
- juliet marillier's backlist series β·
- saga of the light isles, (2003)
- the bridei chronicles, (2004) β
- wildwood, (2006)
- shadowfell, (2012)
- blackthorn & grim, (2014) β
- warrior bards, (2019)
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- my lady jane by cynthia hand, brodi ashton & jodi meadows, 2016 β
- graceling by kristin cashore, 2008
- the demon king by cinda williams chima, 2009 β
- city of bones by cassandra clare, 2007
- the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis, 1950
- fireborne by rosaria munda, 2019
- alanna: the first adventure by tamora pierce, 1983
- divergent by veronica roth, 2011
- the raven boys by maggie stiefvater, 2012
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- alias grace by margaret atwood, 1996 β
- the maiden by kate foster, 2023 β
- child of the morning by pauline gedge, 1977
- the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner, 2010
- the secret magdalene by ki longfellow, 2005 β β
- the mad women's ball by victoria mas, 2019
- the dream of scipio by iain pears, 2002
- fire from heaven by mary renault, 1969
- dreaming the eagle by manda scott, 2003
- the conqueror's wife by stephanie thornton, 2015
- the white mare by jules watson, 2004
- innocent traitor by alison weir, 2006 β
- cassandra by christa wolf, 1983 β
- the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafΓ³n, 2001
- the book thief by markus zusak, 2005
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- bluebeard's castle by anna biller, 2023
- the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter, 1979
- slewfoot by brom, 2021 β
- before you knew my name by jacqueline bublitz, 2021
- the historian by elizabeth kostova, 2005
- the corset by laura purcell, 2018
- the house of whispers by laura purcell, 2019
- interview with the vampire by anne rice, 1976 β
- the girl from rawblood by catriona ward, 2015
- looking glass sound by catriona ward, 2023 β
- affinity by sarah waters, 1999 β β
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- if i had your face by frances cha, 2020
- the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, 1993 β
- white oleander by janet fitch, 1999 β
- the silver dark sea by susan fletcher, 2012
- i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman, 1995 β
- the kite runner by khaled hosseini, 2003
- hamnet by maggie o'farrell, 2020
- the secret history by donna tartt, 1992 β β
- the end of loneliness by benedict wells, 2016
- a little life by hanya yanagihara, 2015 β
- notes on a scandal by zoΓ« heller, 2003
- putney by sofka zinovieff, 2018
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- the spiral staircase by karen armstrong, 2004
- tears of the desert by halima bashir, 2008
- papillon by henri charrière, 1969
- the search for omm sety by jonathan cott, 1987
- the diary of a young girl by anne frank, 1947
- man's search for meaning by viktor e. frankl, 1946
- driving with dead people by monica holloway, 2007
- an unquiet mind by kay redfield jamison, 1995
- not without my daughter by betty mahmody, 1987
- at home in the world by joyce maynard, 1998
- hilma af klint: a biography by julia voss, 2023
- sorcerer's apprentice by amy wallace, 2003
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- eichmann in jerusalem by hannah arendt, 1963 β
- meditations by marcus aurelius, 180 β
- the consolation of philosophy by boethius, 524 β
- the power of myth by joseph campbell, 1988
- on atlantis by edgar cayce, 1968
- the five dialogues of plato by plato, -385
- existentialism & humanism by jean-paul sartre, 1946 β
- letters from a stoic by seneca, 64 β
- the kybalion by three initiates, 1912
- a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton, 2011 β
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- an oresteia by anne carson, 2009 β
- the plague by albert camus, 1947 β
- the odyssey by homer, 701 β
- steppenwolf by herman hesse, 1927
- the screwtape letters by c.s. lewis, 1942 β
- the great divorce by c.s. lewis, 1946 β
- the bell jar by sylvia plath, 1963
- lolita by vladimir nabokov, 1955 β
- jane eyre by charlotte brontΓ«, 1847 β
- the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, 1890
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- the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden
- an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
- burial rites by hannah kent
- the highland witch by susan fletcher
- white chrysanthemum by mary lynn bracht
- a court of silver flames by sarah j. maas