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

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𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley (1982)
• the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty (2017)
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton (2018) ⋆
• assassin's apprentice by robin hobb (1995) ⋆
• house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas (2020) ⋆
• the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien (1937)
• babel by r.f. kuang (2022) ⋆
• the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss (2007)
• empire of silence by christopher ruocchio (2018)
• deathless by catherynne m. valente (2011)
• the hollow hills by mary stewart (1973) ⋆
• weight by jeanette winterson (2005)
• juliet marillier's backlist series ↷
  • saga of the light isles (2003)
  • the bridei chronicles (2004) ⋆
  • wildwood (2006)
  • shadowfell (2012)
  • blackthorn & grim (2014)
  • warrior bards (2019)

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𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• my lady jane by jodi meadows, brodi ashton, cynthia hand (2016) ⋆
• graceling by kristin cashore (2008)
• the demon king by cinda williams chima (2009) ⋆
• city of bones by cassandra clare (2007)
• the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis (1950)
• the giver by lois lowry (1993)
• 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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𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• alias grace by margaret atwood (1996) ⋆
• the maiden by kate foster (2023)
• child of the morning by pauline gedge (1977)
• the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner (2010)
• the mad women's ball by victoria mas (2019)
• hamnet by maggie o'farrell (2020)
• 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) ⋆
• cassandra by christa wolf (1983)
• the book thief by markus zusak (2005)

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𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂, 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

• bluebeard's castle by anna biller (2023)
• before you knew my name by jacqueline bublitz (2021)
• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter (1979)
• the historian by elizabeth kostova (2005)
• the corset by laura purcell (2018)
• the house of whispers by laura purcell (2020)
• interview with the vampire by anne rice (1976) ⋆
• the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón (2001)
• the girl from rawblood by catriona ward (2015)
• looking glass sound by catriona ward (2023)
• affinity by sarah waters (1999) ⋆

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𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ‍

• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides (1993) ⋆
• the silver dark sea by susan fletcher (2012)
• white oleander by janet fitch (1999) ⋆
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman (1995) ⋆
• notes on a scandal by zoë heller (2003)
• the kite runner by khaled hosseini (2003)
• the secret history by donna tartt (1992) ⋆
• a little life by hanya yanagihara (2015) ⋆
• the end of loneliness by benedict wells (2016)
• putney by sofka zinovieff (2018)

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𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒

• jane eyre by charlotte brontë (1847) ⋆
• lolita by vladimir nabokov (1955) ⋆
• steppenwolf by hermann hesse (1927)
• the odyssey by homer (-800) ⋆
• the bell jar by sylvia plath (1963)
• i capture the castle by dodie smith (1948)
• perfume by patrick süskind (1985)
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde (1890)

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𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐒

• the spiral staircase by karen armstrong (2004)
• tears of the desert by halima bashir (2008)
• papillon by henri charrère (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)
• the railway man by eric lomax (1995)
• at home in the world by joyce maynard (2013)
• hilma af klint: a biography by julia voss (2022)
• sorcerer's apprentice by amy wallace (2003)

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𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 / 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐘

• eichmann in jerusalem by hannah arendt (1963) ⋆
• meditations by marcus aurelius (180) ⋆
• the consolation of philosophy by boethius (524) ⋆
• the plague by albert camus (1947) ⋆
• an oresteia by anne carson (2009)
• meditations on first philosophy by rene descartes (1641)
• the kybalion by three initiates (1912)
• the great divorce by c.s. lewis (1946)
• the screwtape letters by c.s. lewis (1942)
• the five dialogues by plato (-385)
• existentialism and humanism by jean-paul sartre (1946) ⋆
• letters from a stoic by seneca (64) ⋆
• a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton (2011) ⋆

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𝐑𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

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