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β€β€β€Ž 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 ⋆
  • piranesi by susanna clarke, 2020
  • the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton, 2018 ⋆
  • assassin's apprentice by robin hobb, 1995 ⋆
  • practical magic by alice hoffman, 1995
  • babel by r.f. kuang, 2022 ⋆
  • the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, 2007
  • empire of silence by christoper ruocchio, 2018
  • the hollow hills by mary stewart, 1973 ⋆
  • the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien, 1954 ⋆
  • 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) ⋆
    • wildwood, (2006)
    • shadowfell, (2012)
    • blackthorn & grim, (2014) βž„
    • warrior bards, (2019)

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  • my lady jane by cynthia hand, brodi ashton & jodi meadows, 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
  • 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 ⋆
  • the maiden by kate foster, 2023 βž„
  • 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 ⋆ βž„
  • 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 ⋆
  • cassandra by christa wolf, 1983 ⋆
  • 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 ⋆
  • 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 ⋆
  • the girl from rawblood by catriona ward, 2015
  • looking glass sound by catriona ward, 2023 ⋆
  • affinity by sarah waters, 1999 ⋆ βž„

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  • if i had your face by frances cha, 2020
  • the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, 1993 ⋆
  • white oleander by janet fitch, 1999 ⋆
  • the silver dark sea by susan fletcher, 2012
  • i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman, 1995 ⋆
  • the kite runner by khaled hosseini, 2003
  • hamnet by maggie o'farrell, 2020
  • the secret history by donna tartt, 1992 ⋆ βž„
  • the end of loneliness by benedict wells, 2016
  • a little life by hanya yanagihara, 2015 ⋆
  • 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 charriΓ¨re, 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 ⋆
  • meditations by marcus aurelius, 180 ⋆
  • the consolation of philosophy by boethius, 524 ⋆
  • 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 ⋆
  • letters from a stoic by seneca, 64 ⋆
  • the kybalion by three initiates, 1912
  • a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton, 2011 ⋆

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  • an oresteia by anne carson, 2009 βž„
  • the plague by albert camus, 1947 ⋆
  • the odyssey by homer, 701 ⋆
  • steppenwolf by herman hesse, 1927
  • the screwtape letters by c.s. lewis, 1942 βž„
  • the great divorce by c.s. lewis, 1946 βž„
  • the bell jar by sylvia plath, 1963
  • lolita by vladimir nabokov, 1955 ⋆
  • jane eyre by charlotte brontΓ«, 1847 ⋆
  • 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
aug 5 2024 ∞
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